The Film Stage

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. Perhaps in a year where wars are raging, the planet is burning, and the cruelest...

Perhaps no film this year represents more from a cinematographic standpoint than The Brutalist. A continents- and decades-spanning period piece shot on VistaVision––the first English-language feature to do so since Marlon Brando’s One-Eyed Jacks in 1961––and projected on 70mm implies...

Emerging after over a decade of development, Santosh is Sandhya Suri’s first narrative feature after a career in documentary. Shortlisted for Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards, representing the UK, the film is inspired by a real program...

In Savanna and the Mountain, the real villagers of Covas do Barroso in Northern Portugal do battle with Savannah Resources, a real British company looking to turn large areas of their UNESCO-protected region into Europe’s largest lithium mine. As moral...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaMinority Report shows on 35mm Friday; The Beguiled, The Age of Innocence, and City Dudes play Saturday; Jean Rollin’s Lost In New York and The Sealed Soil screen on Sunday. Film ForumMr. Deeds Goes to...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. 2024 was my year of big, blustering cinema. The kind of movie that makes you...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. Between the Temples (Nathan Silver) In a state of arrested development after his wife...

If you played Bestiari, Erbari, Lapidari at 20-times speed it would be like watching complex organisms dissolve into blunter forms of matter. As it moves glacially but decisively through nearly three-and-a-half hours of footage––some soothing, some shocking, some otherworldly––it starts...

Happy Holidays from The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we discuss the incomparable Al Pacino with the returning...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. The best film I saw in 2024, Alain Guiradie’s new masterpiece Misericordia, will sadly not...