The Film Stage

You may have forgotten (or altogether missed) that David Chase wrote and directed just one feature film, and that its black-and-white rework is exclusively streaming on the Criterion Channel. To supplement his great Not Fade Away, the Sopranos creator has...

Short though we may be on novel ways to make movies, Pete Ohs has perhaps cracked something new. Seeing each film he makes as a “table of bubbles”—a beautiful, fragile thing that can’t support the burden of anything ideological or...

Full disclosure: Blue Heron takes such strides proving itself one of 2026’s greatest films (plus 2025’s, if we wish to be sticklers about premiere dates) that a decade of friendship with writer-director Sophy Romvari requires no disclosure. Knowing the Canadian...

While 2026 still has a bit of bloom on its rose—personally speaking, entirely outside the scope of world events—Criterion is already halfway through the year. They’re beginning the latter stretch formidably: July’s line-up boasts nine titles and a box set,...

The first thing we hear in Mother Mary is the sound of Michaela Coel’s voice. She anticipates Mother Mary’s arrival and warns us that this story is cursed. Anyone who has been watching television for the last decade could recognize...

Watching David Lowery’s Mother Mary made me think, in some unexpected way, of a scene early in Todd Field’s Tár, in which Lydia Tár dresses down a Juilliard student for his proud indifference to the Western canon. Field has said...

There’s a reason behind the odd credit at the start of Amrum: “A Hark Bohm film by Fatih Akin.” While the two collaborated before on the latter’s In the Fade, this project had a different beginning. Bohm wrote the script...

By all accounts a massive achievement in the legacy of Godzilla films, Takashi Yamazaki’s 2023 epic Godzilla Minus One went on to bring over $116 million worldwide on a budget of $10-$15 million, along with nabbing Best Visual Effects at...

A selection at TIFF, NYFF, San Sebastian, and more, Milagros Mumenthaler’s acclaimed drama The Currents was picked up by Kino Lorber, who have set it for a release next month. Ahead of a release beginning May 29 at Film at...

Ildikó Enyedi, director of the Oscar-nominated On Body and Soul, has brought together Tony Leung and Léa Seydoux for Silent Friend, which tells three stories connected to a tree over a period of more than 100 years. Following the film’s Venice...