The Film Stage

I’m old enough to remember when Jacques Rivette films were the domain of dark-web networks and substandard DVD rips, a conspiratorial network worthy of his cinema. (Actually not even close for intrigue or danger, but give me room to write...

Update: the first teaser has arrived ahead of a full trailer next week. See it and find the original story below. A major summer release for Paul Thomas Anderson’s next feature was too good to be true. Warner Bros. has...

Last Tango in Paris was both a breakout role and a turning point in the life and career of Maria Schneider; a traumatic filming experience that inspired her to become an advocate for women in the film industry, and the...

A major summer release for Paul Thomas Anderson’s next feature was too good to be true. Warner Bros. has now delayed the film, his Vineland-inspired action/crime/comedy One Battle After Another, from an August 8, 2025 release to a September 26,...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 SXSW coverage. Bob Trevino Likes It opens in theaters on March 21 from Roadside Attractions. A crowd-pleasing film inspired by director Tracie Laymon’s experience talking with a stranger online...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our Cyprus Film Days International Festival 2023 coverage. The Fishbowl is now playing in theaters from Monument Releasing. A body and an island become sites of resistance in Glorimar Marrero Sánchez’s...

One of the highlights from the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year was Together, the latest collaboration between Alison Brie and Dave Franco. Marking the directorial debut of Michael Shanks, the film follows a couple who become intertwined in, let’s...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our Cannes 2024 coverage. Misericordia will be released in theaters on Marach 21 from Janus Films/Sideshow. In a career spanning four decades and eight features, Alain Guiraudie has cemented himself as...

98% of interviews follow the same pleasantries-exchange / question-and-answer / pleasantries-exchange format, yet there are those rare times an incredible opportunity arrives. Which is to say that when I interviewed Paulo Branco at last year’s Tokyo International Film Festival I...

If Alain Guiraudie has still not quite transcended festival obscurity to become an American art-house staple, all the more credit to the films––they’ve never approached niceties, comfortability, or a distillation of bleak perspectives for co-production amenability. But if anything must...