The Film Stage

Unless you’re living in the cave of Polyphemus, you are surely aware that Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey arrives today. With it, Ludwig Göransson’s 23-track, two-hour score—concluding with an end-credits collaboration with Travis Scott and James Blake—is now available to stream....

Now in its 40th edition, Il Cinema Ritrovato has swollen to become a true labyrinth of cinema, a Borgesian garden of forking paths that one goes to get lost in. The festival takes place over nine days across 10 or...

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. Backrooms (Kane Parsons) The opening five minutes serve as an ideal primer for anybody...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaNicholas Ray’s The Lusty Men and On Dangerous Ground screen on 35mm Saturday and Sunday; Basil Dearden’s Victim shows on Friday and a print of Gone with the Pope plays...

Mohammed Ali Naqvi’s nail-biting thriller documentary Hanging by a Wire, which premiered at Sundance earlier this year, has now been acquired by AB2 Media Group and its theatrical releasing division Abramorama. Ahead of an August 28th theatrical release, the first trailer and...

Backed by Moonlight and Minari producers Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner (along with Michel Franco), the coming-of-age tale Olmo will now be arriving next month. A selection at TIFF and Berlinale, Fernando Eimbcke’s film stars Aivan Uttapa, Gustavo Sánchez Parra,...

Returning one year after his Oscar-nominated The Lost Bus, Paul Greengrass is back this fall with the period epic The Uprising. Led by Andrew Garfield, the drama about the English Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 also includes Jamie Bell, Stephen Dillane,...

One of the great New York filmmakers is getting the highest honors for a city showcase: Film at Lincoln Center has announced that James Gray’s Paper Tiger is the Opening Night selection of the 64th New York Film Festival. The...

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.  Today we discuss perhaps the most popular filmmaker alive today: Christopher...

The Criterion Collection’s October slate has just been announced today, but in effect dominated discourse for nearly a month. This is the power and pull of a complete Stanley Kubrick box set, on the back of which Criterion could’ve rested...