The Film Stage

It is late at night and Kiev is fast asleep when Isabelle Stever’s I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming opens on Olya (Tania Myronyshena) and Oleh (Markus Bright) arguing in their living room. You must prick up your ears to hear...

As Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey sets a career record for his highest-grossing film at $1.1 billion, the epic is still rolling out in countries across the world. Another week, and another great conversation has emerged from his tour through Asia....

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMRites of Cinema presents the New York premiere of António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro’s restored films, along with work by Manoel de Oliveira, Pedro Costa, and Paulo Rocha. Roxy CinemaA...

Last year I had the fortune of seeing When We Saw Each Other More Often, the feature debut by William Wrubel, a young American filmmaker who’s studied under Angela Schanelec and started his own collective, Geister Film. Although comparisons between...

Kent Jones has influenced the modern cinema by uncountable degrees. It’s one thing to be a longtime collaborator of Martin Scorsese’s as co-director on multiple documentaries and key member of the Film Foundation; it’s another to program for Film at...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 Cannes coverage. The film opens on August 7. When asked about formative movie experiences, Jane Schoenbrun has spoken of the month spent watching all the Nightmare on Elm Street...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 TIFF coverage. The film opens on August 7. Is the idea of a Claire Denis film changing? There was likely an image one formed in their head when that...

The year of Robert Pattinson continues. Lance Oppenheim, marking his narrative feature debut after Some Kind of Heaven and Spermworld, directs the actor as To Catch a Predator‘s Chris Hansen in Primetime. Ahead of a Venice premiere and September 25...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 NYFF coverage. The film opens on August 7. “Klara remembered who she was. She pulled away from the window and she was a sculptor, although she didn’t always believe...

Godzilla now has some friends to join him at the 64th New York Film Festival. Film at Lincoln Center has unveiled the 32 films that comprise the Main Slate lineup this year, featuring 17 directors making their Main Slate debuts....