The Film Stage

With a sprawling 215 minutes and VistaVision footage, not to mention a variety of other formats––including 8mm, 16mm, Super 16mm, 35mm (two-perf, three–perf, four-perf, and eight-perf), Betacam, even an Arri Alexa shot––constructing Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist took editor Dávid Jancsó...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. Besides my annual trip to the Toronto International Film Festival—at which I mostly saw films that have...

It’s that time of year again. While some directors annually share their favorite films of the year, Steven Soderbergh lists everything he consumed, media-wise. For 2024––another year in which he not only premiered a new film, but shot another and is prepping another...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. The Childhood of a Leader (Brady Corbet) While Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist slowly starts...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaThe New World shows on 35mm this Sunday. Film ForumAI: From Metropolis to Ex Machina begins, featuring Alien, 2001, Metropolis, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, and more; The Umbrellas of Cherbourg‘s 4K restoration...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. No matter what 2025 brings, 2024 in cinema felt like a year of unprecedented freedom...

One of the most ambitious films to premiere at Sundance Film Festival last year was Sam Zuchero and Andy Zuchero’s Love Me, which set Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun in a love story that took place across 13 billion years....

From Ground Zero is a film that, in an ideal world, would not exist, and cannot be written about as if it were a normal production. This anthology of 22 shorts is Palestine’s submission for the Best International Film Oscar...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. Among the many problems with movie lists is the lack of a common starting point....

After the riot-induced death of her policeman husband in the badlands of North India, 30-something widow Santosh Saini (Shahana Goswami) is told she has nothing. Her house, provided by the State, belongs to the State and will be reclaimed, along...