The Film Stage

Download the 2024 Awards Season Screenplays
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One of the few benefits of the awards race is Hollywood’s outpouring of materials associated with the contenders. Perhaps the biggest perk is the release of full scripts one is able to download legally, directly from the studios. The first...
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Paul Schrader Details Failed Leonardo DiCaprio-Shah Rukh Khan Film Xtreme City
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My friends at Pod Casty for Me––a show that began as a look at the films of Clint Eastwood before transitioning to a series on Paul Schrader––spoke to the latter during his Oh, Canada press tour, scoring an extended and...
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The Best Directorial Debuts of 2024
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Though we aim to discuss a wide breadth of films each year, few things give us more pleasure than the arrival of bold new voices. It’s why we venture to festivals and pore over a variety of different features that...
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Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Oceans Are the Real Continents Tells a Trio of Stories in Cuba
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A premiere at Venice Film Festival last year, Tommaso Santambrogio’s Oceans Are the Real Continents tells a trio of stories of migration, exile, and memory in the Cuban town of San Antonio De Los Baños. Shot in gorgeous black-and-white by...
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Exclusive: Roman Coppola Backs Full Short, a New Initiative to Empower Ukrainian Filmmakers
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We’re excited to exclusively announce a new initiative empowering Ukrainian filmmakers and amplifying their voices on the global stage. Roman Coppola’s Decentralized Pictures (DCP) has partnered with organizations RIBBON and the Kyiv-based Kinotron for Full Short, an initiative aimed at empowering Ukrainian filmmakers through...
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Nosferatu Review: Robert Eggers’ Haunting Vampire Tale is a Feast for the Senses
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With imagery quite literally conjured from the deepest bowels of darkness, it’s clear why Nosferatu has been on the mind of Robert Eggers since he saw F. W. Murnau’s silent classic at the impressionable age of nine. The director’s fourth...
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Michael Mann’s The Keep Gets 4K Restoration in New Trailer for Vinegar Syndrome Release
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Following up his debut feature Thief, Michael Mann embarked on The Keep, a supernatural horror thriller set in Romania during World War II that, amidst editing troubles, would go on to be director’s most derided film. Now about four decades...
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15 Films to See in December
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As 2024 comes to a close, much of the month will be dedicated to wrapping up the year in cinema with a plethora of year-end features (bookmark here for those), but let’s take a deeper look at the December line-up....
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“It’s All Marketing”: Ed Lachman on HDR, Maria, and Lifetime Achievement Awards
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Those who’ve seen his films know Ed Lachman as a key collaborator of (naming just some) Todd Haynes, Sofia Coppola, Steven Sodebergh, Paul Schrader, and Pablo Larraín, with whom his latest collaboration, Maria, is now in theaters and soon on...
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NYC Weekend Watch: The Wages of Fear, Carrie & More
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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film ForumThe Wages of Fear plays in a 4K restoration, while Labyrinth screens on Sunday. IFC CenterA 4K restoration of Carrie plays daily; Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Ichi the Killer, Threads, and Alien show late....
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