The Film Stage

NYC Weekend Watch: Claire Denis, The Searchers on 70mm, Mermaid Legend & More
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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMClaire Denis’ monumental No Fear, No Die begins screening in a new restoration. Museum of the Moving ImageA new 70mm print of The Searchers plays this weekend. Japan SocietyA restoration...
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Daughters Trailer: Sundance Documentary Winner Arrives on Netflix in August
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Winner of both the Audience Award and in its U.S. Documentary section and the overall Festival Favorite Award at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Natalie Rae and Angela Patton’s deeply moving documentary Daughters will now be rolling out next...
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Mountains Trailer: Monica Sorelle’s Indie Spirit Award Winner Arrives This August
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One of our favorites upon its Tribeca Festival debut last year, Monica Sorelle’s feature debut Mountains went on to be selected for TIFF and AFI Fest, and secured an Indie Spirit Award win with the “Someone to Watch” award. Now...
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Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Laura Luchetti’s Italian Coming-of-Age Tale The Beautiful Summer
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A favorite at Locarno Film Festival last summer, Laura Luchetti’s pre-WWII coming-of-age drama The Beautiful Summer will now be arriving in the ideal season. Set in 1938 in Turin, Luchetti adapted the script with Cesare Pavese based on his novel,...
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First Trailer for Edward Berger’s Conclave Starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, Isabella Rossellini & More
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After surprising with a quartet of Oscar wins for his remake All Quiet on the Western Front, Edward Berger stepped up his star power for his next project, Conclave. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Lucian Msamati, Brían F....
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Great Absence Review: Kei Chika-ura’s Drama is a Triumph of Structure
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It could be argued that the closest relative to films about dementia is the murder mystery. There are certainly many common features: a victim and an enigmatic killer; false memories and red herrings; clues from which an identity must be...
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Red Rooms Trailer: A Serial Killer Case Unfolds Acclaimed Psychological Cyber-Thriller
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An acclaimed thriller that’s played at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Fantasia International Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Overlook Film Festival, and beyond, Pascal Plante’s Red Rooms is now arriving this...
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Crossing Review: Levan Akin’s Drama Finds Authenticity Within Formulaic Queer Narrative
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There’s no description of Levan Akin’s Crossing that won’t make it sound like the kind of feel-good dramedy which would have taken Sundance by storm in 2006. It has all the key ingredients: an inter-generational friendship forged between a curmudgeonly...
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The Criterion Channel’s August Lineup Includes Youssef Chahine, Paul Thomas Anderson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Photographer Cinema & More
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The Criterion Channel’s August lineup pays tribute to auteurs of all kinds: directors, actors, and photographers, fictional or otherwise. In a notable act of preservation and advocacy, they’ll stream 20 titles by the Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine, here introduced by...
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Moving Trailer: Shinji Somai’s Restored Classic Arrives in Theaters This August
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One of the great batches of recent restorations are those from Shinji Somai, as detailed by Jaime Grijalba in our feature last year. The latest to get a wider release is the new 4K restoration of his 1993 classic Moving,...
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