The Film Stage

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMKino Canines offers films by Tarkovsky, Kelly Reichardt, and Jonathan Demme, plus The Wizard of Oz and The Thin Man. Film ForumA Francis Ford Coppola retrospective continues, featuring prints of The Rainmaker, The...

Never one to play it safe, Cristian Mungiu earned his second Palme d’Or under somewhat contentious circumstances. While (obviously) well-liked in plenty corners, Fjord engendered seemingly as many skeptical, if not outright incensed reactions—perhaps a film about the legal consequences...

After a few seasons delighting audiences on HBO, John Wilson is hitting the big screen. The History of Concrete, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, was picked up by Magnolia Pictures and will now roll out...

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...