The Film Stage

Exclusive Trailer for Berlinale Standout Mother’s Baby Introduces a Strange Mystery
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Premiering in competition at Berlinale last year, Johanna Moder’s Mother’s Baby tells a Rosemary’s Baby-esque mystery with a cast featuring Marie Leuenberger, Hans Low, and Claes Bang. Ahead of a release from Dark Sky Films in select theaters and digitally...
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March on the Criterion Channel Includes the Romanian New Wave, Ghost in the Shell, Who Killed Teddy Bear & More
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The Criterion Channel’s March lineup isn’t lacking for director retrospectives, but there’s unique pleasure to be found in their themed programming. Constituting its own cohesive vision is a seven-film Romanian New Wave series featuring work by Cristi Puiu, Corneliu Porumboiu,...
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Exclusive Poster for Christian Petzold’s Miroirs No. 3, Arriving This March
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One of the greatest directors working today, Christian Petzold is returning with another masterfully enigmatic, gripping drama. The Paula Beer-led Miroirs No. 3, which premiered at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight last year, will arrive stateside via 1-2 Special next month. Ahead...
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The 2026 Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films, Reviewed
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Ahead of the Academy Awards, we’ve reviewed every short film in each category: Animation, Documentary, and Live Action. Below are the Best Documentary Short nominees: Butterfly | France | 15 mins As we learn at the end of seventy-year-old Florence...
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The 2026 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Short Films, Reviewed
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Ahead of the Academy Awards, we’ve reviewed every short film in each category: Animation, Documentary, and Live Action. Below are the Best Documentary Short nominees: All the Empty Rooms | USA | 33 mins Steve Hartman embraces his role as...
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The 2026 Oscar-Nominated Live Action Short Films, Reviewed
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Ahead of the Academy Awards, we’ve reviewed every short film in each category: Animation, Documentary, and Live Action. Below are the Best Documentary Short nominees: Butcher’s Stain | Israel | 26 mins Everyone at the Israeli supermarket where he works...
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Berlinale Review: Queen at Sea Sets Tom Courtenay and Juliette Binoche with a Thorny Moral Dilemma
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Eleven years ago, Tom Courtenay arrived at the Berlinale with Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years, an exquisitely observed study of emotional dilemma in which the British actor played a doddery romantic whose selfish tendencies threatened to get the better of him....
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Watch a 2.5-Hour Conversation with Paul Thomas Anderson, Ryan Coogler, Josh Safdie, Guillermo del Toro, and Chloé Zhao
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A welcome annual tradition, the Directors Guild of America gathered their nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film—Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another), Ryan Coogler (Sinners), Guillermo del Toro (Frankenstein), Josh Safdie (Marty Supreme), and Chloé Zhao...
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Berlinale Review: Prosecution is a Propulsive Investigation Into Far-Right Violence
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Last week, the jury president of the Berlin Film Festival claimed that this year’s edition would provide an “opposite” to politics. If such a thing exists, it certainly doesn’t look anything like Faraz Shariat’s sophomore feature Prosecution—a narratively propulsive yet...
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Frederick Wiseman Dies at 96
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Non-fiction cinema is before and after Frederick Wiseman, an indisputable notion that loses no import with the news, made official by his own Zipporah Films, that the artist behind—let’s name just a fraction—Titticut Follies, High School, The Store, Welfare, Central...
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