The Film Stage

While waiting for the Generative AI bubble to burst, it’s essential to highlight art from real people doing real work rather than “massaging” a text prompt to eventually look almost like what they wish they could create themselves. As movie-poster...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. Earlier this year, my dad, Alan, died at the age of 61. He was the funniest and...

As we continue to explore the best in 2025, today we’re taking a look at the articles that you, our dear readers, enjoyed the most throughout the past twelve months. Spanning reviews, interviews, features, podcasts, news, and trailers, check out...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. Another year, another attempt to sum up cinema from the last 12 months. From where I stand,...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. Despite having its detractors (Lav Diaz among them), I find list-making to be quite a healthy, pleasurable...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of the Moving ImageE.T. and a print of Catch Me If You Can offer a Spielberg double-bill on Saturday, when Muppet Christmas Carol also screens. IFC CenterThe entirety of Twin...

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. 100 Nights of Hero (Julia Jackman) Arabian Nights, an expansive collection of Islamic folktales,...

Over the past half-century, production designer Jack Fisk has collaborated with a who’s who of writer-directors, including Terrence Malick, David Lynch, Brian De Palma, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Alejandro González Iñárritu. A few years ago, when he recreated 1920s Fairfax,...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. In a year of tumultuous upheaval for Hollywood, this year proved that no matter the profit-driven ways...

With The Testament of Ann Lee, writer-director Mona Fastvold and team continue the big swing Herzogian mindset present on last year’s The Brutalist, which she also co-wrote and co-produced with partner Brady Corbet. Whether shooting in Hungary for cheaper set...