The Film Stage

The 2024 announcement of Mia Hansen-Løve’s If Love Should Die had us hoping for a late-2025 premiere. As 2026 enters its final months we can admit that some things in life, as this writer-director has often explored, go unfulfilled. But...

Only briefly does Nanni Moretti grace the screen in It Will Happen Tonight. Not that he has to, strictly speaking: his presence hovers above the film like a ghost, never more vividly than when the camera lingers on his stand-in,...

Much of the talk at the Toronto International Film Festival revolves around the feature films, but the Short Cuts programme can offer the most bang for your buck in terms of a festival experience. Split into seven programmes, including the...

It’s rare in today’s era of movie marketing oversaturation to have a genuine surprise drop. A24 has pulled off the rare feat tonight as they’ve announced a new film co-directed by Nathan Fielder and Noah Oppenheim as it unspools in...

Co-productions are a nice way of uniting actors I wouldn’t expect were ever in the same room. The two starts in question did both appear in Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, albeit separate segments by a director with bad habits...

In a year of unknown quantities at the Venice Film Festival, Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love has delivered the triumph for which fans of the elusive director had been hoping. Lee’s first feature since Burning, a modern masterpiece that blew away...

A lone man sits at his desk reflecting on existence. Paul Schrader’s is an idiosyncratic and nomadic oeuvre, but whether set in the desolate, brain-grey landscapes of upstate New York, the city’s putrid underbelly, or the lush mansions dotting the...

Day 1,645 of Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine also brings us the world premiere of Julia Loktev’s My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile, the follow-up to My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow (2024). War time...

Robert Pattinson was born to play Chris Hansen. In the opening shot of Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime—the documentary savant’s first foray into fiction, this one based on a true story—we immediately see the popular To Catch a Predator host as the...

Six years after The Truffle Hunters, Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw have made a movie about wine. This makes sense: what’s the point in dedicating yourself to a study of fungal delicacies, after all, if you aren’t planning to knock...