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A premiere at Venice Film Festival last year, Tommaso Santambrogio’s Oceans Are the Real Continents tells a trio of stories of migration, exile, and memory in the Cuban town of San Antonio De Los Baños. Shot in gorgeous black-and-white by...

We’re excited to exclusively announce a new initiative empowering Ukrainian filmmakers and amplifying their voices on the global stage. Roman Coppola’s Decentralized Pictures (DCP) has partnered with organizations RIBBON and the Kyiv-based Kinotron for Full Short, an initiative aimed at empowering Ukrainian filmmakers through...

With imagery quite literally conjured from the deepest bowels of darkness, it’s clear why Nosferatu has been on the mind of Robert Eggers since he saw F. W. Murnau’s silent classic at the impressionable age of nine. The director’s fourth...

Following up his debut feature Thief, Michael Mann embarked on The Keep, a supernatural horror thriller set in Romania during World War II that, amidst editing troubles, would go on to be director’s most derided film. Now about four decades...

As 2024 comes to a close, much of the month will be dedicated to wrapping up the year in cinema with a plethora of year-end features (bookmark here for those), but let’s take a deeper look at the December line-up....

Those who’ve seen his films know Ed Lachman as a key collaborator of (naming just some) Todd Haynes, Sofia Coppola, Steven Sodebergh, Paul Schrader, and Pablo Larraín, with whom his latest collaboration, Maria, is now in theaters and soon on...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film ForumThe Wages of Fear plays in a 4K restoration, while Labyrinth screens on Sunday. IFC CenterA 4K restoration of Carrie plays daily; Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Ichi the Killer, Threads, and Alien show late....

As a special holiday gift to The Film Stage podcast feed, listen to a new Box Office Bonanza! Here we talk about random box office weekends and where they fit into our lives. The movies, the memories! This episode features...

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. Beatles ’64 (David Tedeschi) While Andrei Ujică’s TWST / Things We Said Today, which...

In September 2022, a 22-year-old Iranian woman named Mahsa Amini was killed by authorities. She was arrested for alleged non-compliance with the country’s mandatory hijab laws, subsequently collapsing and dying while in their custody. The Iranian government denied any brutality...