The Film Stage

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. Peter Hujar’s Day (Ira Sachs) When I look at Peter Hujar’s portrait of poet Allen...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. Creating a year-end list engages with three distinct moments in time: you’re reflecting on the moment exactly...

I’d heard from a couple reliable places that Brian De Palma was done with filmmaking; I’m very glad that they’re wrong. A little over a year ago, the man himself confirmed intent to produce “one other film” that was already...

A truly unforgettable mix of Scorcerer and Mad Max, while directed with a genuine vision of originality, Oliver Laxe’s desert rave thriller Sirāt deservedly picked up the Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. After a festival run...

Filipino writer, director, editor, production designer, and cinematographer Lav Diaz is over 25 features deep into a three-decade-long career, and he continues to one-up himself. With Magellan––a biopic that couldn’t be less biopic, and one of the year’s greatest surprises––he...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. In a year where my favorite films are dominated by international and independent features, I cannot deny...

Christian Petzold’s Miroirs No. 3 will arrive stateside via 1-2 Special nearly a year since its Cannes debut. Which might be the minimum length of time needed to unpack this film, perhaps the German master’s most perplexing and withholding yet....

In Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, a father tries to reconnect with his estranged daughters through a film he wants to make. Gustav (Stellan Skarsgård), a noted director, returns to Oslo after the death of his wife. His daughters Nora (Renate...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. To exemplify my year in one horrific-turned-hilarious example: I broke my hand in a moped accident on...

One of the most revelatory retrospectives I had the opportunity to experience was dedicated to Luchino Visconti, taking place back in 2018 at Film at Lincoln Center. Across 14 features, his filmography begs to be experienced on the big screen,...