The Film Stage

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMBard-bred films by Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Béla Tarr, and Luchino Visconti screen in Macbeth(s). Anthology Film ArchivesEssential Cinema brings Michael Snow’s Wavelength and Back and Forth screen on 16...

“To your people, your son is worth 1,000 of mine.” This striking line from Oscar-nominated director Farah Nabulsi’s feature debut The Teacher draws inspiration from the 2011 Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange, in which one Israeli soldier was released in exchange...

If there’s one thing you absolutely cannot miss in Kevin Macdonald’s electrifying ’70s-set New York City music documentary One to One: John & Yoko, it is, unsurprisingly, the music. Thanks to son Sean Ono Lennon’s supervision, the remastering of the...

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we talk about two American icons: Joel and Ethan Coen....

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. The Accident (Giuseppe Garau) It’s nice when a film chooses not to overstay its...

While the idea of independent cinema has shifted to increase bigger budgets and scopes, a filmmaker who has stayed true to his punk roots is certainly Joel Potrykus. The Buzzard and Relaxer director returned to the festival circuit last fall...

From increasingly overbearing Eat the Rich satires to a never-ending, post-Get Out wave of social commentary-infused horror, it seems like there’s no end in sight to what the New Yorker recently dubbed cinema’s “plague of literalism.” For genre movies in...

In a back room of a Luxembourg Hotel, Tim Roth sips a coffee, leans back, and asks me what else I’ve got. We’ve only been talking for ten minutes, but something about the actor’s quick-fire London gab (still distinctly Dulwich,...

Ahead of the 78th Cannes Film Festival, taking place May 13 to 24, the lineup has now been unveiled. Iris Knobloch, President of the Festival de Cannes, and Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate, have revealed the slate this morning. Highlights include...

Alexander Horwath’s Henry Fonda for President stands among the most notable releases of a still-young year, is certainly the most lauded essay film in recent memory, and was of personal interest once my friend Zach Lewis offered his approval. As...