The Film Stage

It might be said that Christopher Nolan’s true inhibition from proper-speaking Great Director status is spelled by his earliest films. Individual worth notwithstanding, they inspire admiration as a distinct set of small-scale, structurally innovative crime dramas aswim with a young...

One of the most formally accomplished feature debuts to premiere at Sundance earlier this year, Rafael Manuel’s Jia Zhangke-backed feature debut Filipiñana is set at a country club in the Philippines as we follow a 17-year-old “tee-girl” who starts uncovering...

A quirky, offbeat road trip and kidnapping dramedy, Carolina Cavalli’s The Kidnapping of Arabella moves through a variety of tones and genres in its relatively short runtime. Absurd, funny, and almost deadly serious with its moral implications, it’s a film...

Premiering at Sundance earlier this year, where it picked up the NEXT Innovator Award, The Incomer marks the directorial debut of Louis Paxton. Led by Domhnall Gleeson, Gayle Rankin, Grant O’Rourke, Emun Elliott, Michelle Gomez, and John Hannah, the black...

Michael Clayton director Tony Gilroy is finally making his return to feature filmmaking with his first movie in 14 years. Behemoth!, which stars Pedro Pascal, Will Arnett, Eva Victor, Olivia Wilde, and Matthew Lillard, boasts quite the gifted lineup of...

Opening this month in a brand-new 4K restoration, Ngozi Onwurah’s Welcome II the Terrordome was the first theatrically distributed British feature directed by a Black woman. Now set for a July 31 release beginning at NYC’s BAM, Janus Films has...

After a stretch almost exclusively being the world’s greatest action star, Tom Cruise is returning to more dramatic territory this fall. Leading Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s next film Digger, Cruise has undergone quite the transformation to play oil tycoon Digger Rockwell....

After directing only a single film last year, What Does That Nature Say to You, Hong Sangsoo is back with his 34th and 35th features this year. Following The Day She Returns at Berlinale earlier this year, it was recently...

Like the old song goes: summer’s here and the time is right for dancing in the street. While the theater has its benefits as a restrictive space, and we do not encourage interrupting those to your immediate left and right...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterTsai Ming-liang’s The Hole begins playing on a new 35mm print—read our interview with the director. BAMFilms by David Fincher, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tom Tykwer, and more screen in Electronica. Japan SocietyRex:...