The Film Stage

When he’s not acting as pure imagemaker, Mamoru Oshii is, before anything else, a worldbuilder. One of Japan’s premier multimedia genre auteurs, his “worldview, story, characters” creative philosophy has led to the construction of visionary alternate worlds—prospective futures, alternate pasts,...

Through the eyes of itinerant logger Robert Granier (Joel Edgerton), Train Dreams traces America’s transition from a pioneer land firmly into an industrialized nation through the first half of the 20th Century. Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar are longtime writing...

A couple of weeks ago, just moments after delivering a career-spanning masterclass at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, Catherine George sat down to talk to us on a balcony overlooking Aristotle Square—a pedestrianized area that sits at the end of a...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaThe Straight Story, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, and Interiors play on 35mm while Lex Walton introduces Venom and Eternity on Friday. BAMAn Angela Bassett series, featuring 35mm prints of Strange Days and Waiting...

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. After the Hunt (Luca Guadagnino) “It’s a fucking minefield, Alma,” the Dean of Humanities...

What is it to spend 15 months in a room with—let’s just speculate—the most influential filmmaker of all-time on his final project, a work for which they did not survive to elaborate upon and left in a forever-obsessed-over state? The...

The holidays are upon us, so whether you’re looking for film-related gifts or simply want to get for yourself some of the finest this year had to offer, we have a gift guide for you. Including must-have books on filmmaking,...

Get ready for a Charli XCX winter. After quite a major last few years, the British pop icon is now leading a new meta feature from A24 titled The Moment. Directed by Aidan Zamiri, who co-wrote the script with Bertie...

For over four decades, Mamoru Oshii has stood as one of the pioneering auteurs of Japanese anime and science fiction cinema, with his cerebral, meditative style and meticulous, philosophically rich worldbuilding attached to both lauded anime classics (Ghost in the...

You’ll never watch a true-crime documentary or series quite the same way after Charlie Shackleton’s Zodiac Killer Project, a fascinating exploration of the director walking through his failed attempt to adapt Lyndon E. Lafferty’s book The Zodiac Killer Cover-Up: The Silenced Badge into...