The Film Stage

Splitsville Review: A Resuscitation of the Rom-Com
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Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin know no sophomore slump. The best-friend filmmakers––who met acting opposite each other in a commercial 15 years ago and made their feature debut nine years later with bromance bike comedy The Climb––write, produce, and...
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Peter Deming on a Life with David Lynch Through Lost Highway, Mulholland Dr., Twin Peaks, and Unrecorded Night
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For as singular, unprecedented, non-pareil an artist David Lynch may have been, his vision was achieved with a small band of trusted collaborators. Chief among them was Peter Deming, who Lynch hired to shoot the little-seen, frankly underrated TV series...
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Meeting with Pol Pot Review: Rithy Panh’s Languid, Incendiary Cautionary Tale
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In 1978, journalist Elizabeth Becker was one of three westerners granted permission to enter Cambodia while under the communist rule of the Khmer Rouge. “We were all conscious of our role as singular witnesses of the revolution,” she writes in...
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Tribeca Review: Holding Liat Tells the Story of One Family Through a Mosaic of Political Views
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The first words we hear in Brandon Kramer’s Holding Liat are spoken, over the phone, by a person named in the subtitles as “Israeli Army liaison.” In this short call the male voice tells a perturbed 70-ish man that his...
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Pedro Almodóvar Begins Shooting Bitter Christmas for 2026 Release
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Less than a year since his first English-language feature premiered, Pedro Almodóvar has already embarked on his next project. Bitter Christmas (translated from Amarga Navidad) is now shooting in Madrid and Lanzarote throughout the summer, with a cast including Bárbara...
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Joaquin Phoenix Battles Pedro Pascal in Full Trailer for Ari Aster’s Eddington
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Reteaming with Joaquin Phoenix after the divisive, impressively anxiety-inducing Beau Is Afraid, Ari Aster is back with his fourth feature. His western Eddington, which world-premiered in competition at Cannes, stars Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Luke Grimes, Austin Butler, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal...
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Sex Review: Dag Johan Haugerud’s Delightful Portrait of Men in Crisis Deconstructs Identity
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A fact often gone unacknowledged is that, as we age, our desires unwittingly change. When it does, the terms we used to define ourselves and those around us must undergo a process of deconstruction, after which one can fashion a...
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Peter Deming Shares New Details of David Lynch’s Unrecorded Night
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With David Lynch’s passing came the reminder—which not all of us needed—that his final decades were often spent attempting projects that were eventually rejected by studios, Netflix chief among them. Though they’d accepted a pitch for his series Unrecorded Night,...
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Exclusive: Graham Foy’s Acclaimed Debut The Maiden August Release and New Trailer
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One of my favorite directorial debuts from 2022 is finally getting a U.S. release. Graham Foy’s atmospheric, bifurcated coming-of-age tale The Maiden, which played at Venice, TIFF, and New Directors/New Films, has been picked up by Altered Innocence. Ahead of...
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Oh, Hi! Trailer: Molly Gordon and Logan Lerman’s Romantic Getaway Goes Wrong
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Premiering at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Sophie Brooks’ Oh, Hi! provides an entertaining twist on the romantic comedy for reasons best left unspoiled. Starring Molly Gordon, Logan Lerman, Geraldine Viswanathan, John Reynolds, and David Cross, Sony Pictures Classics...
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