The Film Stage

“Someone at Sony Ericsson did a very good job!” Shielded from Locarno’s scorching heat inside the air-conditioned lobby of the Kursaal theater, Alexandre Koberidze is extolling the virtues of the camera with which he shot his latest, Dry Leaf. Not...

Following up Evil Does Not Exist and Gift, Ryusuke Hamaguchi is returning this year with All of a Sudden. The French production, starring Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto, landed at the top spot in our 100 most-anticipated films of 2026,...

Thornton Wilder’s meta-play Our Town, a staple of high school productions and English-class readings, has been used countless times onscreen—from its own adaptations to a memorable episode of The Wonder Years—as an entry point for talking about life on an...

Before he heads off to embark on his James Bond film, Denis Villeneuve is concluding the saga that has taken up much of the last decade. Going by the more marketing-friendly title of Dune: Part Three rather than Dune Messiah,...

One of the most acclaimed feature-directing debuts of the last year, Sophy Romvari’s Blue Heron premiered at the Locarno Film Festival where it picked up the Best First Feature Award, and will now be arriving this spring from Janus Films....

Nuri Bilge Ceylan usually takes more than a few years between films as of late, and thus we’ve been waiting to hear what might be next. The Turkish filmmaker has now unveiled his latest feature, following About Dry Grasses, which...

Reuniting after 2017’s In the Fade, Fatih Akin and Diane Kruger’s WWII-set drama Amrum premiered to acclaim at last year’s Cannes Film Festival and will now be arriving soon. Also starring Laura Tonke, Jasper Billerbeck, and Lisa Hagmeister, the drama...

In 2022, Charli XCX emblazoned “they don’t build statues of critics” on a custom t-shirt––a little nudge and provocation rather than a knock-down to a great tradition of writing. And they do make (rightly) fawning documentaries about them, with Matty...

As far as dumb comedies go, Pizza Movie is a masterclass in throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks. It doesn’t always land, but when it does, it really does. This is the latest production from Syracuse, NY-based...

One of the great films of the year, Sho Miyake’s gorgeous, tranquil Two Seasons, Two Strangers picked up the Golden Leopard at Locarno last summer and will now get a U.S. release this April. Set for a North American premiere...