The Film Stage

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterA series of rare Korean cinema is on display in Celluloid Fever. Japan SocietyKazuhiko Hasegawa’s Anarchic Ethos features an ultra-rare print of The Man Who Stole the Sun—my pick...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. A Balcony in Limoges (Jérôme Reybaud) Reybaud observes a chance meeting between two former classmates...

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is this summer’s l’objet de cinéma, the 70mm-sized monolith around which most else will have to orient. There are ways to be creative about it. One such case would be Odysseys, a seven-film series that features...

When asked about formative movie experiences, Jane Schoenbrun has spoken of the month spent watching all the Nightmare on Elm Street sequels at 11 years old. It’s tempting to say that the seeds of their latest movie, Teenage Sex and...

Red Rooms was not Pascal Plante’s first film, but it sure suggested an arrival. Coming from seemingly nowhere and immediately placing the Québécois director on our radar, that film—which we gave a rather high grade when we still assigned grades—wound...

The brilliant Catherine Breillat made her long-awaited return with Last Summer a few years back, and now thankfully the wait for her next feature won’t be as long. She’ll next direct The German Cousin, an adaptation of Georges Simenon’s novel...

Without putting too fine a point on it, the 2026 Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes has kicked off with a bit of a dog. The latest from exiled Russian filmmaker Kantemir Balagov, Butterfly Jam takes place in and around the Circassian...

There’s not much room nowadays for movies that are merely pretty good, even—especially—coming from great directors. Olivier Assayas’ CV has fortified his great-director status for so long that it’s sometimes hard to square his brilliance with the films that offer...

One return to the director’s chair we’ve long-awaited is John Sayles. The Lone Star and Matewan helmer hasn’t made a film in 13 years, with his last release being the 2013 crime drama Go for Sisters. While he has publicly...

The tides of cinema history have somehow obscured Liliane de Kermadec’s Aloïse, where one role is inhabited by two of French cinema’s greatest actors. Isabelle Huppert plays Aloïse Corbaz—who was admired by the art brut movement but kept institutionalized for...