The Film Stage

Final Trailer for Wong Kar-wai’s Blossoms Shanghai, Premiering Next Week
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A decade after The Grandmaster, the wait for Wong Kar-wai’s next project has been lengthy, with his long-gestating Blossoms Shanghai first announced nearly five years ago. Now, after three years of filming, the series launches next week on China’s Tencent Video....
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Jean-Luc Godard: Reckoning with the Cinematic Corpus of a Medium-Defining Artist
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With a title that invokes both the specific (cinema of Godard) and the universal (cinema is Godard), Cyril Leuthy’s Godard Cinema finds itself in conversation with another formulation: Everything is Cinema. Richard Brody’s 2008 study of the filmmaker, is beautifully...
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