The Film Stage

28 Years Later Trailer: Danny Boyle and Alex Garland Bring a New Era of Zombies
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After the 2000s brought us 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later, get ready for a whole new trilogy of zombie features in the franchise. Danny Boyle, returning six years after his Beatles-inspired trifle Yesterday, is back to large-scale filmmaking...
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The Best Cinematography of 2024
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“A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist–moving an audience through a movie […] making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark,” said the late, great Gordon Willis. As our year-end coverage continues, we must...
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Posterized December 2024: Nosferatu, The Brutalist, The End & More
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We’ve reached another year’s end, so get ready for all the limited releases and qualifying runs primed for Oscar consideration as guild votes start propping up their prospective favorites. All while most of you cross your fingers that you won’t...
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John Waters’ Top 10 Films of 2024 Include Love Lies Bleeding, Queer, Joker: Folie à Deux & More
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One of our favorite traditions in best-of-the-year festivities is a lineup that tends to find a more interesting path than any guilds or critics groups. The wonderfully eccentric John Waters, whose tastes always includes a mix of the unexpected and...
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New to Streaming: Close Your Eyes, Juror #2, Good One, Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point & More
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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. Banel & Adama (Ramata-Toulaye Sy) A directorial debut programmed into the main Cannes competition...
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Listen to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ Score for Luca Guadagnino’s Queer
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A little more attention’s been given to individual songs from Queer than its star duo’s score. Sinead O’Connor’s Nirvana cover that opens the film; the actual Nirvana song that punctuates a standout scene; and a track produced by Trent Reznor...
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All We Imagine as Light Leads Sight and Sound’s Top 50 Films of 2024
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In a week full of a few embarrassing selections included in the likes of National Board of Review and AFI’s picks for the top films of 2024, leave it to BFI’s Sight and Sound to deliver a top 10 films...
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NYC Weekend Watch: Dersu Uzala, Secrets & Lies, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg & More
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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of the Moving ImageSee It Big! Let It Snow brings 35mm prints of Kurosawa’s Dersu Uzala, 1994’s Little Women, and McCabe & Mrs. Miller. Film at Lincoln CenterMike Leigh’s...
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“There’s No Villains in This Film”: Joshua Oppenheimer on The End and Value of Self-Deception
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After fearlessly interrogating man’s capacity for evil in Oscar-nominated documentaries The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer returns with The End, a bunker-bound musical set at the end of the world. Despite that unexpected logline,...
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The 50 Best 2024 Films You Might Have Missed
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With an awards season and year-end lists that tend to favor films that have been released in the last few months, there’s many films that can go overlooked. For our yearly feature highlighting the 50 best films you might have...
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