The Film Stage

Loving modern cinema and admiring Tony Leung are essentially a one-to-one deal. One can look no further than Film at Lincoln Center’s recent retrospective of the actor: whether the title was a programming coup or something that’s played so often...

It’s the most exciting time of the year for any cinephile: the Cannes Film Festival is set to kick off next week, running May 12th-23rd. Ahead of the festivities, we’ve rounded up what we’re most looking forward to, and while...

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.  Today we talk about one of the most successful performers of...

In one of the most impressive tonal feats of the year, John Early’s directorial debut Maddie’s Secret––which finds the actor playing a woman juggling career dreams, marriage, and a traumatic secret––is both hilarious and heartfelt, a satire-meets-melodrama with an emotional...

In Silent Friend, characters from three eras interact with the fauna around them. In 1908, Grete (Luna Wedler) tries to study medicine at a time when women were not allowed in college, and photography helps her uncover patterns in nature....

“Provocation” has become watered-down in recent times. All it takes to provoke someone is tossing off a bunch of half-assed offensive statements or aiming your cannon at every divisive mainstream issue on a quest to push people’s buttons. Getting a...

Yes, of course, we love the glitzy red-carpet premieres and breathlessly staked-out hot takes on whatever premiere peppers the competition line-up, but Cannes’ highest batting average, bar none, is in its Classics section. This year’s repertory programming boasts Akira Kurosawa’s...

We average about one Whit Stillman movie every ten years, which makes the path from 2016’s Love & Friendship to today’s news right on the money. Variety reports that Adam Brody (of the aforementioned, plus Stillman’s Amazon pilot The Cosmopolitans)...

After two-and-a-half years of Israeli genocide rendering an endless stream of unconscionable images, any record of Gaza’s past has become all the more invaluable. It would be easy to grade Kamal Aljafari’s With Hasan in Gaza on such a curve—for...

After crafting one of the highlights of 2026 with the thrilling, hilarious Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, Matt Johnson is back with his next feature. The Canadian director proved his chops in finding a unique way into a...