The Film Stage

We were very excited, and frankly relieved, to learn Richard Kelly finally had a new project coming this year, and equally surprised that it’s a novel—a “gigantic” one, in his own words. Today finally brings fuller news, and with it...

Ten years ago, Train to Busan pitted passengers against zombies on high-speed rails. Driven by a canny script and propulsive editing, Yeon Sang-ho’s film became a worldwide hit. In Yeon’s latest, Colony, an experimental serum unleashes hordes of zombies into...

The acclaimed Peruvian documentary Runa Simi, the feature-directing debut of Augusto Zegarra and executive-produced by Dominique Bravo, Ellen Schneider, Benjamin & Peter Bratt, Alpita Patel, and Bill & Ruth Ann Harnisch, is set for a one-week engagement beginning this Friday...

Bringing to light the pioneering vision of Fernanda Wittgens, the first woman in Italy to become a museum director, Francesco Clerici and Mattia Colombo’s Anatomy of a Portrait is set to premiere at Giornate degli Autori at the Venice Film...

Bitter Christmas announces that Pedro Almodóvar has entered his late era, returning once again to the metafiction well for another structurally ambitious analysis of the creative process with at least one character to whom he bears a passing resemblance. It...

Two of the filmmakers behind the most essential, vital documentary of 2024, No Other Land (winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary and Indie Film Site Network Advocate Award), are returning with another look at destruction and violence inflicted on...

An attempted burial might have actually been the best thing to ever happen to Coyote vs. Acme. The live-action/Looney Tunes hybrid was originally slated for HBO Max in 2023 before being dropped down a black hole by Warner Bros. Discovery in...

While long established as a launch site for adventurous cinema, Locarno’s Filmmakers of the Present sidebar has recently become appointment viewing. Similar in structure to Cannes’ Critics’ Week, where only first or second features are considered, the last three editions...

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. Armageddon Time (James Gray) Armageddon Time is the sort of film usually invoked as a...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMFilms by Godard, Wong Kar-wai, Apichatpong (on 35mm), Żuławski, Cronenberg, and Tarkovsky x2 screen in Arthouse Sci-Fi. Film ForumA Francis Ford Coppola retrospective begins, featuring prints of The Conversation and...