The Film Stage

While Kiyoshi Kurosawa hardly leaves us wanting for new work—2024 saw the premiere of three projects, one of which landed high on our best-of-2025 list and another that’s still lacking U.S. distribution—at 70, his continued prolificacy is no safe bet....

It’s a year of major change for the Sundance Film Festival: not only does 2026 mark the final in their long-time home of Park City, Utah, but it’s also the first edition without two key guiding figures. Robert Redford, who...

Though it is often pegged to David Lynch, who financed the film and makes a fun cameo, Nadja is really a showcase par excellence for Michael Almereyda, long one of America’s finest filmmakers who, like so many in that class,...

February is about love, but love often—some might say always—does not go one’s way. Thus there’s yearning, and also “Yearning,” a new program where amour isn’t so much fou as mort: In the Mood for Love, The Deep Blue Sea,...

Few developments in Paul Thomas Anderson’s career—his ironclad collaboration with Jonny Greenwood or pivot to period pieces or embracing of long-dormant shooting and projection formats—are more consequential than his slow drift from traditionally defined cinematographer duties. A long-term relationship with...

Certainly the only movie in existence to star Larry David and Orson Welles, Henry Jaglom’s Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? was a wonderful discovery at the 63rd New York Film Festival last fall, where a new 4K restoration premiered...

Taking place February 12 through 22, Berlinale 2026 had previously unveiled films by Hong Sangsoo and more coming to the festival. Now it’s time for the Competition lineup, featuring Angela Schanelec’s My Wife Cries, Karim Aïnouz’s Rosebush Pruning with Callum...

When One Battle After Another was first announced, before it even had a confirmed title, the potential of what a Paul Thomas Anderson-directed action movie could be boggled the mind. Upon its release this September, it was revealed to be...

An especially strong cross-section of English-language cinema is represented by Criterion’s April 2026 lineup, which sees Point Blank get a 4K disc that should do justice to the downright avant-garde colors and textures of John Boorman’s masterpiece, and almost undoubtedly...

The new All You Need Is Kill—director Kenichiro Akimoto and Studio 4°C’s animated reimagining of the time-loop novel that inspired Doug Liman’s Tom Cruise vehicle Edge of Tomorrow—asks: what makes this day different from all others? Its response, as a...