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Eva Green Finds Romance in 4K Restoration Trailer for Bernardo Bertolucci’s NC-17 Cut of The Dreamers
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Restored in 4K for its 20th anniversary last year, Bernardo Bertolucci’s penultimate feature The Dreamers is now arriving on a new 4K UHD disc this summer. Marking Eva Green’s first film role, the romantic drama set during the 1968 Paris...
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NYC Weekend Watch: Sergei Parajanov, Le Samouraï, Patricia Highsmith & More
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaParajanov’s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors plays on Friday; “City Dudes” returns on Saturday, while Space Jam screens on 35mm this Sunday. Film ForumLe Samouraï screens in a new 4K restoration; Hondo’s West Indies and...
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New to Streaming: Stop Making Sense, The Taste of Things, The Settlers, Lousy Carter & More
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
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. Drift (Anthony Chen) Singaporean director Anthony Chen’s English-language debut follows a West African refugee,...
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Francis Ford Coppola Finally Unveils Megalopolis and Begins Work on Next Film
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Don’t call it a premiere, but after decades in the making, Francis Ford Coppola finally unveiled his $120 million epic Megalopolis to a good portion of the Hollywood industry yesterday in Los Angeles in the hopes of securing a buyer....
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Young Palestinians Fight for Liberation in Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Firas Khoury’s Alam
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
While it seems unfathomable there can be any controversy related to the human suffering currently happening in Gaza, the on-the-ground reporting brings a vital, harrowing call to action. By extension, cinema from the region can help those around the world...
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Watch a VFX Breakdown Reel for Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
When it comes to appreciation for visual effects, it’s often the blockbusters that get the most attention, as evidenced in each year’s Oscar nominees––in 2024, for example, The Creator, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning...
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First Excerpt from Martin Scorsese’s Jesus Film Paints a Self Portrait
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
It’s been inferred since last year that Martin Scorsese’s forthcoming Jesus film would take an aslant approach to the greatest story ever told. Put simply and enigmatically by the man himself: “I don’t know what it’s going to be, exactly. I...
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Exclusive Trailers for Green Fish and Oasis Restorations Bring Lee Chang-dong’s Early Features to Proper Light
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Though South Korea’s hardly produced a better-seen, more-beloved auteur, Lee Chang-dong hasn’t been quite so represented as the reputation suggests. Thus the work of restoring his earlier films is a major necessity and all the more reason to celebrate Film...
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Léa Seydoux and Tony Leung to Lead Ildikó Enyedi’s Silent Friend
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
It flew under the radar that Ildikó Enyedi (most recently of Story of My Wife, most notably of My Twentieth Century) had suited a role for Tony Leung in her new feature, Silent Friend, which “tells three stories connected to...
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Watch: A 17-Year-Old Orson Welles Directs Shakespeare in Never-Before-Released Footage of His 1933 Production
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
A special piece of cinema history has been unveiled. Seven years before Orson Welles would embark on the production of his legendary directorial debut Citizen Kane, he shot one of his earliest short films, capturing his production of William Shakespeare’s...
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