The Film Stage

One of the most spiritually transporting experiences I had at the New York Film Festival this year was the world premiere of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall on 35mm. Shot with a vision at once affectionately timeless...

Welcome to The Film Stage Presents! Today we’re speaking with Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Daniel Kraus about his novel Whalefall and the new film of the same name (which he co-wrote with director Brian Duffield).  We chat about Whalefall, adapting it...

Following her studio blockbuster Barbie, Greta Gerwig hopped over to Netflix to direct an adaptation of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew, which will get quite the lengthy theatrical run, kicking off in IMAX and global theaters on February 12, 2027, followed...

“What requires attention in cinema are the traces of these palpable things ingrained on the cinematic surface.” — Shiguéhiko Hasumi, Directed by Yasujirō Ozu “That everyone in the world, including myself, is totally nuts.” — Nathan Fielder in a 2014...

It’s always tempting to discuss Jane Austen adaptations in comparison with their predecessors, especially when the most famous example here is Ang Lee’s version that earned Emma Thompson her second Oscar. Georgia Oakley recognizes this; rather than trying to reinvent...

Because of Coraline, LAIKA’s first effort as a studio and still its best-known, there’s an expectation that each subsequent project will fit comfortably within the horror realm, each new release a rite of passage for thousands of kids previously unaware...

As much as the word “fascism” has been bandied about for the past decade to describe all manner of ominous political and cultural sins, our era of perpetual crises has bred surprisingly few compelling cinematic examinations of authoritarianism, either as...

Nobody makes clumsier social allegories than Guy Nattiv. His first American effort, the 2018 short Skin, followed a violent white supremacist who was kidnapped, drugged, and held hostage while his entire skin was tattooed jet-black as revenge for a hate...

It’s been fourteen years since screenwriter and occasional director Tony Gilroy made an original film, and he’s taking a fresh approach. The filmmaker best known for penning the Bourne films and bringing us Michael Clayton has spent most of his...

The family-friendly noir pastiche is now just as much of a throwback as Who Framed Roger Rabbit? was to the genre’s old Hollywood heyday, and the spirit of Robert Zemeckis’ madcap riff on that hard-boiled style is alive and well...