The Film Stage

The first taste of what independent cinema has to offer in 2026 has arrived with the unveiling of the Sundance Film Festival lineup. Taking place January 22–February 1, 2026, in person in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, with the...

We have almost reached the end of 2025, and there is a lot to get to, starting with books on an unmade Charlie Chaplin film, memories from Sir Roger Deakins, and the making of Guillermo del Toro’s latest and (in...

After the one-two absurdist comedy punch of Sick of Myself and Dream Scenario, Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli is returning this spring with The Drama, the first of three films starring Robert Pattinson and Zendaya next year, preceding the latest from...

Few figures of contemporary cinema are more shrouded in mystery than Bi Gan, and no film this year posed a bigger question mark than Resurrection, his seven-years-hence Long Days Journey Into Night follow-up that had been subject to much speculation...

“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...

Paris-based filmmakers Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley make their return with Room Temperature. Despite both hailing from California, this is their third collaboration yet first production to be shot in the United States. Set against the glare of the High...

Robert Grainier lives a narrow life of hard work and sudden, inexplicable tragedy. As played by Joel Edgerton in Train Dreams, he’s someone who looks on from afar, who watches rather than participates.  Based on a novella by Denis Johnson,...

In a year that’s felt defined by a sense of hysteria and confusion, the only thing I truly wanted from a film festival was escape. I’m over cinema that tries to posture itself as a force of political change. Genuine...

One of the most powerful of the Best International Feature Film contenders this year is Palestine’s entry, Annemarie Jacir’s Palestine 36, which takes a sweeping yet intimate look at a pivotal moment in history for the Palestinian people under British...

In the opening of 1969’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, George Lazenby, the replacement for Sean Connery’s immediately iconic James Bond, looks at the camera, smiles, and says, “This never happened to the other fella.” Debate amongst Bond die-hards has...