The Film Stage

Perhaps I’ll need to burn my cinephile card if I suggest that the Criterion Channel’s best addition next month—best addition all year?—is a TV series. But I let out an actual exhale upon reading that they’re adding all 17 episodes...

There are some others making films like Mark Jenkin. His Bolex-shot, creaky-sounding cinema isn’t the greatest system shock to those who’ve attended (one might say endured) a festival’s experimental-shorts program. But nobody is making them at Mark Jenkin’s scale, nor...

Comedy icons Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957) will be getting a well-deserved retrospective in NYC this summer. “Laurel & Hardy,” a two-week festival featuring more than 50 comedy classics, will run at Film Forum from Friday, July 10, through Thursday, July 23....

Being queer—especially in this rapidly regressive age—means becoming acquainted with a base level of fear for most of your life. It is something you learn early on: not only when you must discover who can be trusted with your survival,...

After her impressive directorial debut Test Pattern, which was nominated for both Gotham and Independent Spirit Awards, Shatara Michelle Ford returned to the festival circuit in 2024 with Dreams in Nightmares. Now finally picked up by Lunette Films for a...

50-something years into a seismic career, Shinya Tsukamoto has embarked upon the rare English-language project. And in branching out, one of Japanese cinema’s preeminent figures—director of the Tetsuo: The Iron Man series, A Snake in June, Bullet Ballet, and Tokyo...

When you think of Robin Hood, what do you think of? Errol Flynn? Kevin Costner? Stealing from the rich and giving to the poor? Bryan Adams’ smash hit “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You”? With The Death of...

One year on from their Wes Anderson set, in what one would only hope sets a tradition, the Criterion Collection will debut something a tad slimmer but no less essential: a Leos Carax compilation featuring Boys Meets Girl, Mauvais Sang,...

A directorial debut standout on the festival circuit last year, Stillz’s Venice, TIFF, and NYFF selection Barrio Triste is now arriving in theaters in a fitting July slot. Executive produced by Harmony Korine, with an original score by Arca, Film...

Summer is here, and there are plenty of books in our latest roundup worthy of lugging to the beach. Just don’t be surprised if you get funny looks for eating up a book about Hannibal Lecter while lounging poolside.  A...