The Film Stage

Why do we like Gerard Butler? As of the publishing of this piece, Den of Thieves 2: Pantera is performing as expected, looking to become yet another reliable, mid-budgeted programmer hit for the movie star. It’ll round out nicely in...

Martin Scorsese’s schedule has been uncertain of late. When we talked to Rodrigo Prieto in November he revealed they were supposed to be at work on a new project––not Home or Life of Jesus, which had both generated much heat...

In the fall of 2017 I worked at a media startup that covered the tech world. Having attended many tech conferences in that span of time, the panel that retains all these years later is one where I saw a...

As Berlinale contends and, even worse, complies with the German government’s censorship against expressing Palestinian liberation, the festival programmers are spotlighting perhaps the greatest cinematic work when it comes to illuminating historical persecution and genocide. Claude Lanzmann’s nine-hour 1985 masterwork...

With a filmography both so vast as to be barely comprehensible and often reduced to the cult favorite House, Nobuhiko Obayashi remains a perpetual object for further study. Even my own familiarity with his corpus doesn’t leave room for everything...

Widely considered one of the most important and prolific film critics in America, Jonathan Rosenbaum began his career in the 1970s writing film criticism for Sight and Sound, Film Comment, and the Village Voice before becoming chief critic of the...

It’s Liza with a Z. Not Lisa with an S. Liza Minnelli is among those rare, true living legends who seem irreplaceable. Irreplaceable both in that their talent is immense and that it literally appears nobody from a younger generation...

A massive box-office sensation in Italy, where it’s among the country’s top 10 highest-grossers of all-time, Paola Cortellesi’s black-and-white drama There’s Still Tomorrow is, remarkably, the director’s first feature. After racking up six David di Donatello Awards, the post-war drama...

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...