The Film Stage

Todd Haynes to Shoot De Noche with Pedro Pascal and Danny Ramirez Starting Next Month
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After earning some of the finest acclaim of his career for May December, Todd Haynes was all set to embark on a 1930s, Los Angeles-set noir romance back in the summer of 2024. When Joaquin Phoenix got cold feet mere...
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David Lynch’s Scripts for Unrecorded Night, Which Was to Star Toby Jones, to Be Published
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It’s now been over a year since the great David Lynch departed this Earth, and with his passing he left a number of unrealized projects. The major one was Unrecorded Night, a series set to be produced by Netflix but...
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Sundance Review: Shame and Money is a Pressure Cooker Drama About the Crushing Demands of Capitalism
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An exacting, well-articulated portrait of a Kosovan family in crisis as they attempt to make ends meet, Shame and Money confronts anxieties in a life drowned by the demands of capitalism. Crafted with a documentary-like realism and scripted with the...
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Sundance Review: Jaripeo is an Immersive Portrait of Mexico’s Queer Rodeo Culture
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There’s always been something sexy about the image of the cowboy, which has been praised as a portrait of good, old-fashioned masculinity as much as it’s been parodied. Queerness, of course, has expanded our idea of what a cowboy can/should...
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A Scenario Multiplies In First Trailer for Hong Sangsoo’s The Day She Returns
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A Hong Sangsoo Berlinale premiere is no surprising development, but the first details on his 34th feature, The Day She Returns, are particularly exciting. Not least that the title would seem to directly signal perhaps his single greatest film, The...
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Sundance Review: Ghost in the Machine Lays Out the Evils on Which A.I. is Built
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What exactly is artificial intelligence? Where does it come from? And precisely how powerful is (or will) it become? Valerie Veatch’s documentary Ghost in the Machine digs into these answers and finds things both disturbing and unsurprising. This is a...
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First Look at Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden Starring Virginie Efira
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Following up Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy and his Oscar-winning Drive My Car with Evil Does Not Exist, which was shot in secret, more info is coming together for Ryusuke Hamaguchi‘s next feature, All of a Sudden. The French production,...
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Sundance Review: Aanikoobijigan Demands a Necessary Reclamation
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Even before his campaign for the removal of indigenous people from their land in the 1800s, Thomas Jefferson was pillaging burial grounds under the guise of scientific understanding. His actions predate those by countless archaeologists who followed suit: disturbing and...
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Sundance Review: Public Access is a Kaleidoscopic Celebration of Creativity
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A kaleidoscopic celebration of creativity and the boundaries of free speech, David Shadrack Smith’s Public Access revisits the birth of cable television, providing a complex oral history of its promises as a mirror for society and the first wave of...
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Exclusive Trailer for Saša Vajda’s Berlinale Premiere The Lights, They Fall
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Kicking off next week, the 2026 Berlinale will bring no shortage of new discoveries, and one on our radar is the feature debut from Saša Vajda. The lights, they fall—starring Mohammed Yassin Ben Majdouba, Flor Prieto Catemaxca, Mahira Hakberdieva, Safet...
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