The Film Stage

In a city like New York, what’s another film festival? When one can crop up in any neighborhood, keeping track is neither possible nor desirable. So if I might’ve accordingly raised an eyebrow to hear of the Downtown Festival upon...

There’s a lot going on in the opening scene of Everything Else is Noise, but director Nicolás Pereda hardly has to move his camera. It just sits there, gazing out the window and onto a Mexico City intersection as a...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterNYFF Revivals closes with a restoration of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Goodbye South, Goodbye and a 16mm print of Fred Camper’s Suicide Note. Roxy CinemaA 25th-anniversary screening of L.I.E....

Winner of the Directing Award for U.S. Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, J.M. Harper’s Soul Patrol tells the story of the Vietnam War’s first Black special operations team as they reunite to dig up the past. Ahead of a...

Aiming to bring neophytes up to date without frustrating experts who could probably complete the interview footage’s sentences, Maiken Baird’s Edward Said: Between Worlds is a concise primer on one of the most consequential academic thinkers of the late 20th...

Palme d’Or winner Fjord is a prickly film. The new feature from Romanian director Cristian Mungiu became a talking point during the festival circuit, both left- and right-wing supporters and detractors sprouting up. The film follows a Romanian family settling...

One of the great time capsules of the year is Making Marie Antoinette, which features never-before-seen footage of Sofia Coppola at work on her 2006 period drama, all captured through the eyes of Eleanor Coppola. Completed after her mother’s death,...

A few months after Amazon invested $50 billion in OpenAI, Amazon MGM dropped Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial. The film, designed to dramatize the recent history of Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, and OpenAI, suddenly clashed with the conglomerate’s bigger-picture profits. The unflattering...

Aaron Sorkin is so pissed off about the Capitol siege on January 6 that he’s made a major studio movie about it. He knows all about who to blame because he won an Oscar for making a movie about them...

Julia Loktev’s 13-year absence since The Loneliest Planet was once a blemish on film culture; now it’s almost hard to remember. Her role as an artist saw some kind of renaissance with the unveiling of My Undesirable Friends: Part I...