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. Benediction (Terence Davies) Time is everything in a Terence Davies film. In Benediction, his biopic...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMTriple Canopy Presents: In The Hole brings 35mm prints of Salò, Tsai Ming-liang’s The Hole, and more. Roxy CinemaMartin Scorsese presents Henry Hathaway’s Kiss of Death on 35mm this Friday;...

While this summer has its fair share of sequels, leave it to Dag Johan Haugerud and Strand Releasing to roll out an entire trilogy of films across the season. Fresh off the Norwegian filmmaker’s Berlinale Golden Bear win for Dreams,...

We’re delighted to exclusively announce that KimStim has acquired all North American rights to the Quay Brothers’ Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass. A stop-motion/live-action masterpiece inspired by the works of Jewish-Polish author and artist Bruno Schulz, this personal passion...

Few recent films, and even fewer by major directors, are so death-haunted as David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds. Since well before its premiere has there been much acknowledgment of personal parallels for the director, though an even larger sense of loss,...

If any single thing distinguishes directors from auteurs, the capacity to put oneself into the film might be a strong dividing line. Few living directors have defined themselves so strongly as David Cronenberg, and while this sets expectations that can...

Despite going off the MAGA deep end, David Mamet is very much still in the cultural consciousness. As a revival of Glengarry Glen Ross lights up Broadway, his script for a JFK assassination movie is in the works with Barry...

Tribeca Festival has unveiled its 2025 lineup ahead of the annual event, taking place June 4-15, with Alex Ross Perry’s Videoheaven, Takashi Miike’s Shame, RZA’s One Spoon of Chocolate, Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s Reflection in a Dead Diamond, Kate...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. The Ugly Stepsister opens in theaters on April 18. If the disheartening lack of creativity in Disney’s live-action remakes leaves one thinking these timeless stories have, in...

Providing two of the most-demanded upgrades while adding a major American filmmaker to their ranks, Criterion has announced July 2025’s lineup. Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon and François Truffaut’s Antoine Doinel series––the former a 2017 release, the latter dating to the...