The Film Stage

Shot across a whopping 17 years, Marie Losier’s documentary Peaches Goes Bananas captures the life and career of Canadian electroclash musician and trailblazing queer icon Peaches. Ahead of a theatrical release beginning at NYC’s Anthology Film Archives on December 3...

Cinephiles, rejoice. While there’s no new Quentin Tarantino film on the horizon, a long-awaited holy grail of his filmography is finally getting a major release. Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair––Tarantino’s version of the revenge epic that was originally presented...

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. Boys Go to Jupiter (Julian Glander) Boys Go to Jupiter, an animated feature directed...

Admittedly, I hadn’t heard the name Peter Hujar before seeing writer-director Ira Sachs’ latest film, which captures a conversation between Hujar and his friend, Linda Rosenkrantz, about the former’s day in 1974. Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall are phenomenal as...

Coming off last year’s inaugural trip to the Tokyo International Film Festival, I noted how their devotion to world premieres and fresh Asian voices will effectively offset the sturm und drang––standing in long lines for films that have already formed...

There is no film you’ll see this year, or even decade, quite like Bi Gan’s Resurrection, which finds the director following Kaili Blues and Long Day’s Journey Into Night with a dizzyingly ambitious anthology starring the great Shu Qi. Ahead of a...

Following up last year’s acclaimed drama The Brutalist, Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet returned this year with The Testament of Ann Lee, this time with the former directing and the latter co-writing. Led by Amanda Seyfried in a career-defining performance,...

Richard Linklater works at such a pace that, with two films now in theaters, it’s a little surprising there hasn’t been word on the next thing. For some time, though, he’s been planning a film concerning transcendentalism, a literary movement...

If one wished the Bond series oozed buckets more style, look no further than Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s wild new spy thriller Reflection in a Dead Diamond. Premiering back at Berlinale earlier this year, it’ll now get a theatrical...

Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, where it picked up the Grand Jury Prize, Hailey Benton Gates’ debut feature Atropia has taken some time to find distribution. However, the Luca Guadagnino-produced satire starring Shawkat, Callum Turner, Zahra...