The Film Stage

If you played Bestiari, Erbari, Lapidari at 20-times speed it would be like watching complex organisms dissolve into blunter forms of matter. As it moves glacially but decisively through nearly three-and-a-half hours of footage––some soothing, some shocking, some otherworldly––it starts...

Happy Holidays from The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we discuss the incomparable Al Pacino with the returning...

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. The best film I saw in 2024, Alain Guiradie’s new masterpiece Misericordia, will sadly not...

A benefactor to Adrien Brody’s architect character László Tóth, the patronage of Guy Pearce’s wealthy Harrison Lee Van Buren eventually metastasizes into something far darker as Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist examines balances of power and privilege. Giving one of the...

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. It is almost impossible, or so it seems to me, to have a conversation about...

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. As the decade crosses its halfway point, I can already sense the hastily assembled lists...

Remakes, reboots, and sequels are all the rage in Hollywood these days. Studios hand them out like candy to proven and unproven talent alike, but very few directors not named Villeneuve or Spielberg get to actually direct them. The studios...

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. Each year offers some important movie-going lessons, and 2024 was no exception. Buy tickets early...

As the most-anticipated film of his career began playing to critics and faced down the circus of press junkets and awards screenings, Jarin Blaschke was in Toruń, Poland to survey unknown talent. EnergaCAMERIMAGE invited him to head their Cinematographers’ Debuts...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of the Moving ImageSee It Big! Let It Snow brings 35mm prints of All That Heaven Allows, Doctor Zhivago, and Meet Me In St. Louis. Museum of Modern ArtA dual celebration of Marcello and Chiara...