The Film Stage

Following in the footsteps of Luchino Visconti, François Ozon has delivered a new update on the classic Albert Camus novel The Stranger. Delivering one of his most acclaimed films, the cast includes Benjamin Voisin, Rebecca Marder, Pierre Lottin, Denis Lavant,...

In quite the match-up, Ildikó Enyedi has brought together Tony Leung and Léa Seydoux for Silent Friend, which tells three stories connected to a tree over a period of more than 100 years. Following the film’s Venice and TIFF premieres, 1-2...

One of the more delightful Sundance premieres I saw last year was Canadian director Chloé Robichaud’s sex comedy Two Women, following two mothers who deal with unfulfilled desires in unique ways. Ahead of an April 24 release beginning at NYC’s Angelika,...

It’s time for our first column of 2026, recommending the best in new filmmaking books, and there is no better way to begin than with a new book exploring the heyday of three iconic filmmakers. The Last Kings of Hollywood:...

The exhaustively extended awards season finally being over isn’t the only reason to celebrate this month. Led by my current frontrunner for the best film of 2026, there’s plenty of new releases to look forward to, also including a bold...

Few subjects constitute a better benchmark than Werner Herzog, who quite literally needs no introduction and to whom I will, accordingly, not grant such. He is presenting his new film, Ghost Elephants, a documentary concerning South African naturalist Steve Boyse...

Following up the wonderful Happy as Lazzaro and La Chimera, Alice Rohrwacher has assembled quite the ensemble for her next feature. Dakota Johnson, Saoirse Ronan, Jessie Buckley, and La Chimera star Josh O’Connor will lead the Italian director’s next film...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMThe World of Black Film features Malcolm X, Daughters of the Dust, Set It Off, Black Orpheus, and more. Film ForumSatyajit Ray’s Days and Nights in the Forest begins playing...

“Between 1969 and 1977, Elvis played 1,100 shows, sometimes 3 times a day.” The postscript of Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert—the extravagant, divisive Australian wunderkind’s first documentary, and hopefully not his last—says something essential about the late Elvis...

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.  Today we celebrate one of our great Welshmen: Anthony Hopkins! Our...