The Film Stage

Following one of 2022’s great breakthroughs, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, we’ve been curious to see what Daniel Goldhaber would direct next. He quickly embarked on a remake of the 1978 cult horror film Faces of Death. While it...

After two theatrical releases last year, the ever-prolific Steven Soderbergh is back this spring with The Christophers, which brings together Ian McKellen, Michaela Coel, James Corden, and Jessica Gunning. Following its premiere at TIFF last fall, NEON has picked up...

Her films’ texture and intimacy can be so intense as to make one forget Sofia Coppola’s never delved into the documentary field. (Unless Bill Murray really spends his time singing at Bemelmans, in which case I stand corrected.) This perhaps...

Enjoying much-deserved appreciation for his formally bold return to the 28 Days Later franchise, Danny Boyle also had another reason to celebrate last year: the 10th anniversary of Steve Jobs, his Aaron Sorkin collaboration that found a unique structural conceit...

After Jane Schoenbrun’s haunting, astounding second feature I Saw the TV Glow topped our list of the best films of 2024, we’ve been counting down the days for the release of their follow-up. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,...

While filmmakers tout their usage of the latest and greatest technology through extensive aspect-ratio videos and infographics, leave it to one filmmaker to utilize a nearly two-decade-old phone to craft one of the most beautiful cinematic works of the year....

Nominated for Best Documentary Short Film at the 98th Academy Awards, perfectly a strangeness marks the first short from Canadian filmmaker Alison McAlpine, director of the wondrous 2017 feature Cielo. Ahead of a Criterion Channel debut on March 1 and...

No one moves abroad in Ted Fendt’s Foreign Travel; people walk plenty—mostly around Kreuzberg, Berlin—but the kind of wandering this erudite film is concerned with is chiefly of the mental variety. It is triggered by books, those of Italian writer...

Shortly before the 2025 edition of the Berlinale, incoming festival head Tricia Tuttle was outspoken about filmmakers shunning the event over fears they would be censored out of political pressures. The 2024 edition ended with German politicians outright condemning the...

From Biblical tales of the prodigal son to Zach Braff’s Garden State, stories of returning home after an extended absence are ripe territory to explore reconciliation and changed identity. With his rigorous debut feature Trial of Hein, Kai Stänicke distills...