The Film Stage

David Zaslav isn’t the only one in Hollywood completely scrapping already-shot feature films. This week brings news that a pair of high-profile forthcoming films in various stages of post-production will never see the light of day. First up, last year...

Though he recently shot Bugonia and has long been attached to adapt perpetual subway read My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Yorgos Lanthimos has kept at least one other project deep in the background: from trusted sources we’ve confirmed he’ll...

At the beginning of my review of The Village Detective: A Song Cycle, I wrote: “It is hard to overstate how important Bill Morrison’s work is to the language and history of cinema.” That was nearly four years ago, and...

2025 is in full swing and a majority of America is probably looking for a means of escape from the literal and figurative flames engulfing their nation. A new entry in the “Zachary Levi only gets kids movies now” canon...

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. All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia) Following up her enigmatic, beautiful debut A...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Japan SocietyA six-film Nobuhiko Obayashi retrospective, featuring imported 35mm and 16mm prints, begins (watch our exclusive trailer debut). Anthology Film ArchivesWillem Dafoe: Wild at Heart features films by Ferrara, Lynch,...

Though once head-spinningly prolific, Tsui Hark hasn’t directed a solo feature since 2018’s Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings, the time between then and now seeing one short in the Septet omnibus and two co-helmed entries in China’s über-popular Battle...

In Videoheaven, Blockbuster––to take after Thom Andersen––plays itself. Now deep in a pop-cultural-scholarship phase inaugurated by his last feature Pavements, Alex Ross Perry has made a generous, absorbing three-hour essay film-cum-documentary on nothing else but video-rental stores, those fabled and...

After Bait and Enys Men proved to be a pair of the most tactile, distinctive films of the last few years, director Mark Jenkin is expanding scope for his latest. The Cornish director finished production in secret this past summer on his time-travel mystery...

It’s always thrilling when a horror film explores the power and possibility of sound. Much modern horror is too quiet, missing the opportunity to create an immersive soundscape that fully transports viewers into its world. Writer-director Bryn Chainey’s debut feature...