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Jordan Raup’s Top 10 Films of 2024
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Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. As the decade crosses its halfway point, I can already sense the hastily assembled lists...
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Robert Eggers on Nosferatu, Jump Scares, and Making Vampires Terrifying Again
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Remakes, reboots, and sequels are all the rage in Hollywood these days. Studios hand them out like candy to proven and unproven talent alike, but very few directors not named Villeneuve or Spielberg get to actually direct them. The studios...
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Christopher Schobert’s Top 10 Films of 2024
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Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. Each year offers some important movie-going lessons, and 2024 was no exception. Buy tickets early...
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“A Good Cinematographer is Like an Alchemist”: Jarin Blaschke on Nosferatu and Lighting Darkness
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As the most-anticipated film of his career began playing to critics and faced down the circus of press junkets and awards screenings, Jarin Blaschke was in Toruń, Poland to survey unknown talent. EnergaCAMERIMAGE invited him to head their Cinematographers’ Debuts...
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NYC Weekend Watch: Meet Me In St. Louis, Raúl Ruiz, Chantal Akerman & More
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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of the Moving ImageSee It Big! Let It Snow brings 35mm prints of All That Heaven Allows, Doctor Zhivago, and Meet Me In St. Louis. Museum of Modern ArtA dual celebration of Marcello and Chiara...
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Alistair Ryder’s Top 10 Films of 2024
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Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. Is there a worse way to see movies than the obligatory December spent catching up...
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New to Streaming: Anora, Small Things Like These, Juror #2, Cuckoo & More
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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. Anora (Sean Baker) Sean Baker’s Anora expands his filmmaking vision, pushing the writer-director-editor’s fifth consecutive story...
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The 100 Most-Anticipated Films of 2025: Part Two
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Following part one of our 2025 movie preview, we’re counting down our 50 most-anticipated films of the year. 50. 28 Years Later (Danny Boyle; June 20) It’s a shame the 28 Later (?) franchise lost its shaky, grainy video-camera aesthetic that...
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The 100 Most-Anticipated Films of 2025: Part One
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With the New Year upon us, it’s time for our annual tradition of looking at the cinematic horizon. Having highlighted 30 films we guarantee are worth seeing this year and those we hope get U.S. distribution, we now venture into the unknown. We dug...
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The 30 Best 2025 Films We’ve Already Seen
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We don’t want to overwhelm you, but while you’re catching up with our top 50 films of 2024, more cinematic greatness awaits in 2025. Ahead of our 100 most-anticipated films (all of which have yet to premiere), we’re highlighting 30 titles...
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