The Film Stage

Catchfly Pictures today announced the launch of American Thread, a documentary series that profiles local businesses with deep community ties and films them with the craft and scale of feature cinema. The first episode, The Matunuck Oysterman, is available to...

We still have a bit more summer to enjoy, but many of the books included here have an autumn feel to me. So, join me as we say goodbye to summer and hello to fall with the latest book from...

It’s been nearly a decade since Joe Swanberg last sat in the director’s chair. What does the preeminent king of mumblecore have up his sleeve now? More of the same, essentially. For those familiar with work such as Drinking Buddies,...

Eight years after his masterful Burning, Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love is certainly our most-anticipated film to premiere this fall. Clocking in at 164 minutes, it follows two married couples—a laid-off worker and his wife, and a documentary filmmaker and her husband—whose paths cross...

Tsui Hark’s cinema is perhaps too much to ever be completely and fully embraced by American audiences. The films (an exact history of which it can seem impossible to keep track) are delirious, exhausting, brilliant, petulant, undergirded by moral clarity,...

When Janine (Nour Hooshmand) asks Isabel (Jorrybell Agoto) what the Ilocos region of the Philippines is like—she’s only ever heard it was beautiful without having visited herself—she explains that many spots look and feel just like the posh golf course...

At the ripe old age of 88, Ridley Scott has a whopping 30 features to his name. Among them are some of the best films across disparate genres: Alien in horror, Blade Runner in sci-fi, American Gangster in crime, Gladiator in ancient war, Thelma & Louise in dramedy, and Black Hawk...

We were very excited, and frankly relieved, to learn Richard Kelly finally had a new project coming this year, and equally surprised that it’s a novel—a “gigantic” one, in his own words. Today finally brings fuller news, and with it...

Ten years ago, Train to Busan pitted passengers against zombies on high-speed rails. Driven by a canny script and propulsive editing, Yeon Sang-ho’s film became a worldwide hit. In Yeon’s latest, Colony, an experimental serum unleashes hordes of zombies into...

The acclaimed Peruvian documentary Runa Simi, the feature-directing debut of Augusto Zegarra and executive-produced by Dominique Bravo, Ellen Schneider, Benjamin & Peter Bratt, Alpita Patel, and Bill & Ruth Ann Harnisch, is set for a one-week engagement beginning this Friday...