The Film Stage

Returning one year after his Oscar-nominated The Lost Bus, Paul Greengrass is back this fall with the period epic The Uprising. Led by Andrew Garfield, the drama about the English Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 also includes Jamie Bell, Stephen Dillane,...

One of the great New York filmmakers is getting the highest honors for a city showcase: Film at Lincoln Center has announced that James Gray’s Paper Tiger is the Opening Night selection of the 64th New York Film Festival. The...

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.  Today we discuss perhaps the most popular filmmaker alive today: Christopher...

The Criterion Collection’s October slate has just been announced today, but in effect dominated discourse for nearly a month. This is the power and pull of a complete Stanley Kubrick box set, on the back of which Criterion could’ve rested...

It might be said that Christopher Nolan’s true inhibition from proper-speaking Great Director status is spelled by his earliest films. Individual worth notwithstanding, they inspire admiration as a distinct set of small-scale, structurally innovative crime dramas aswim with a young...

One of the most formally accomplished feature debuts to premiere at Sundance earlier this year, Rafael Manuel’s Jia Zhangke-backed feature debut Filipiñana is set at a country club in the Philippines as we follow a 17-year-old “tee-girl” who starts uncovering...

A quirky, offbeat road trip and kidnapping dramedy, Carolina Cavalli’s The Kidnapping of Arabella moves through a variety of tones and genres in its relatively short runtime. Absurd, funny, and almost deadly serious with its moral implications, it’s a film...

Premiering at Sundance earlier this year, where it picked up the NEXT Innovator Award, The Incomer marks the directorial debut of Louis Paxton. Led by Domhnall Gleeson, Gayle Rankin, Grant O’Rourke, Emun Elliott, Michelle Gomez, and John Hannah, the black...

Michael Clayton director Tony Gilroy is finally making his return to feature filmmaking with his first movie in 14 years. Behemoth!, which stars Pedro Pascal, Will Arnett, Eva Victor, Olivia Wilde, and Matthew Lillard, boasts quite the gifted lineup of...

Opening this month in a brand-new 4K restoration, Ngozi Onwurah’s Welcome II the Terrordome was the first theatrically distributed British feature directed by a Black woman. Now set for a July 31 release beginning at NYC’s BAM, Janus Films has...