The Film Stage

Moving a week later in the calendar this year, the Sundance Film Festival kicks off this Thursday and runs through February 2, offering a first glimpse at the year in cinema with (once again) a mix of in-person and virtual...

Arriving just in time for spring training, Carson Lund’s Cannes and NYFF hit Eeephus is the perfect baseball movie. Following the final game in an amateur baseball game in rural Massachusetts, those who enjoy the rhythms of Richard Linklater and...

Following much-deserved renewed attention for Michael Roemer’s career thanks to the recent restorations of Nothing But a Man, The Plot Against Harry, and Vengeance Is Mine, the 97-year-old director has more reason to celebrate. Dying and Pilgrim, Farewell, a pair...

One of the potential breakout directorial debuts of Sundance Film Festival, which kicks off this week, is Mark Anthony Green’s thriller Opus. Backed by A24, who will release the film on March 14, the film stars Ayo Edebiri, John Malkovich,...

Following last week’s lineup announcement, the Berlinale 2025 has now fleshed out its slate with the Competition, Special, and Perspectives sections. Highlights include the world premieres of Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon starring Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, and Andrew...

Leos Carax isn’t the only recent filmmaker turning the camera lens on himself. One of the most brilliant comedic minds to emerge at the turn of the millennium, Tom Green made waves on MTV, in feature films (including his cult...

It’s shaping up to be a major year for South Korean cinema as Hong Sang-soo and Bong Joon Ho get ready for Berlinale premieres of their latest work and later this year we’ll see the premiere of Park Chan-wook’s next...

Four days on and the passing of David Lynch still feels unreal, leaving behind a legacy of work that is an entire universe onto itself. Like many others, I’ve been catching up with the short films and oddities in his...

While we still await a U.S. release for Takeshi Kitano’s samurai epic Kubi, his latest film is getting a worldwide release next month. Broken Rage, which premiered at Venice Film Festival last fall, was picked up by Prime Video for...

I consider myself something like a student, autodidact or otherwise, of cinema and––even still, must confess––had not ever grasped the concept of Argentine noir. Credit to Criterion Channel, who’ll expand my horizons with February’s program (concisely titled “Argentine Noir”) that...