The Film Stage

WB’s fresh Clockwork label will start on quite the promising note. Before debuting new films from Sean Baker and Mary Bronstein next year, their first official release will be of the NC-17 rated variety. The restored director’s cut of Ken...

Following Main Slate and Spotlight lineup announcements, the 64th New York Film Festival continues to take glorious shape, revealing its incredibly promising Currents lineup. Led by the Currents Centerpiece selection, the world premiere of Bardi by filmmaker and photographer Tala...

Albert Serra’s Sixteen Moments from My Life will perhaps go down as a minor addition to the director’s corpus, but it’s nothing if not a continuation of his career-long project of finding ways to capture flickers of reality within the...

A selection at SXSW Film Festival 2026, Hot Docs 2026, Fantasia International Film Festival, 2026 Black Star Film Festival 2026, and more, Maya Annik Bedward’s documentary Black Zombie will now get a theatrical release starting next month. Ahead of an...

The End of Oak Street opens with a rollicking gusto, Michael Giacchino’s assured heavyweight score ripping us straight from the production cards into a 1982 suburban block party in Flowervale, Michigan, where the styles and aesthetics of the ‘70s still...

When, a few years ago, I agreed to interview the filmmaker Rob Tregenza on the eve of his career-spanning retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, I did not anticipate it would, before long, lead to a producing credit on...

Following their Main Slate announcement, the 64th New York Film Festival has unveiled its Spotlight lineup, which features the world premieres of Tom McCarthy’s A Statement, Jonathan Glazer’s Joy of Joys, and Aftersun director Charlotte Wells’ new short New York...

After winning both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at Sundance earlier this year (which last happened with CODA, which went on to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards), Beth de Araújo’s harrowing, emotional drama Josephine—starring Mason Reeves,...

In 2006, Denis Côté was diagnosed with a degenerative kidney disease; in 2022, around the time he wrapped Mademoiselle Kenopsia, the insufficiency reached critical conditions: without a transplant—which he luckily received just a few months later—the Quebecois maverick wouldn’t have...

Between its Cannes premiere this May and North American debut at NYFF next month, James Gray’s Paper Tiger has received a first teaser. Adam Driver, Miles Teller, and Scarlett Johansson lead the project that finds Gray returning to his native...