The Film Stage

One of the most distinctly directed debut films of was Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel’s strange sci-fi wonder Jessica Forever. Six years later, the duo finally return with Eat the Night, a thriller that premiered in Director’s Fortnight at the...

Earlier this year, Civil War proved Alex Garland wasn’t so much interested in the politics of a divided country, rather curious about the questions of morality and the psychological toll of those entrenched in an aspect of war (specifically photojournalism)....

In a much-clipped moment from his Criterion Closet video, philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek pulls a DVD copy of Louis Malle’s Murmur of the Heart from the shelf and remarks upon it warmly as “one of those nice gentle...

With just a week to go until Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, ranking quite highly on our best films of 2024, arrives in theaters, we’re getting new details on what the filmmaker has up next. Although it took six years for...

It may have taken a half-century and well after he made films with any consistency, but Alan Rudolph is at last experiencing a verdant season. Just months since a remaster and rerelease of his 1999 Breakfast of Champions, he’s been...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterThe noir titan Robert Siodmak is subject of a new retrospective. Film ForumA celebration of Marlon Brando’s centennial has begun. Museum of the Moving ImageSee It Big!...

More than undergirding one of 2024’s biggest films––speaking for size, scale, length, awards prestige, print weight––Daniel Blumberg’s The Brutalist soundtrack has the distinctly unenviable task of following Scott Walker, Brady Corbet’s only prior collaborator and one of the, say, ten...

Happy Holidays from The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we discuss the great Jack Lemmon with the great...

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. The Bikeriders (Jeff Nichols) Using photographer Danny Lyon’s iconic The Bikeriders’ imagery as a jumping-off...

Bruce Springsteen’s “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town” plays out as we pan down from the sky to find a mysterious man we’ll know only as Traveler (Jason Bateman) arriving to make a deal for an ominous suitcase, murdering everyone...