The Film Stage

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterNYFF Revivals brings an Artavazd Pelechian program and Visconti’s L’innocente. Museum of Modern ArtA Yuen Woo-ping series continues, featuring two by the man himself, Wong Kar-wai’s Hong...

As we go deeper into fall, the most impressive month of the year for new releases is here. Featuring no shortage of staggering, essential documentaries, as well as a few of the best international films of the year, it’s an...

A highlight of the 2026 Directors’ Fortnight is, unlike many Cannes selections, not long in waiting. Neon will release Arie and Chuko Esiri’s Clarissa—a take on Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway that leans into the melodramatic stylings of Nollywood, Almodóvar, and...

It’s a pleasure to report that, for the third consecutive year, I’ll be attending the Tokyo International Film Festival. Past editions have offered a litany of worthwhile, even galvanizing premieres that rarely make their way towards North America, and the...

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! And sometimes we get to talk to stars about their own B-Sides! Today is a big one for us. The legend Josh Hartnett is on the podcast to talk about...

In 2023, the two Israeli Oscar-winning filmmakers behind No Other Land, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, sat down, across rooftops in the shadows of the Tel Aviv night, to discuss Israel’s genocide 35 miles away in Gaza. Their visually obscured...

Many were optimistic that the first Trump Presidential term would be, at the very least, a blessing for satire. Two years into his second term and a former member of his cabinet was the one to declare comedy “legal” again,...

There’s lesser-seen and then there is Srđan Karanović’s Virgina (Virdžina). But the 1991 Serbian feature is being wrested from dark corners of film history by Altered Innocence, who will release the new restoration at Metrograph on October 23 after its...

At the top of our interview, director Garth Jennings pulls the laptop in close. He’s seated next to the subject of his new film: Jarvis Cocker, legendary Pulp frontman. We are Zooming to discuss their new film, Pulp: What Do...

While recuts are nothing new for Michael Mann, who made some controversial changes to his classic Manhunter just this year, we were surprised to learn the director once more picked up his scalpel and applied it to Miami Vice. Masterpiece...