The Film Stage

Coming to SXSW this year with Their Town (our review here), Katie Aselton’s previous feature Magic Hour, which premiered at the festival last year, will now be getting a theatrical release beginning this summer. Written by Aselton and her husband,...

For fifteen years now, Israeli writer-director Nadav Lapid has thoughtfully crafted blistering and incisive films about the incompetency, hypocrisy, criminality, and veritable shame of his home state in modern times, a place he’s long since abandoned for a life in...

For fifteen years now, Israeli writer-director Nadav Lapid has thoughtfully crafted blistering and incisive films about the incompetency, hypocrisy, criminality, and veritable shame of his home state in modern times, a place he’s long since abandoned for a life in...

Following Under the Silver Lake, David Robert Mitchell is finally back in the director’s chair, this time for a large-scale adventure feature for a major studio. His WB-backed, J.J. Abrams-produced feature The End of Oak Street (previously titled Flowervale Street)...

One of Werner Herzog’s most immersive documentaries has received quite the restoration and roll-out. IFC announced today that a 6K restoration and upgrade of Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Werner Herzog’s 3D documentary exploring the highly restricted Chauvet Cave—home to some...

A few years prior to making her landmark achievement as the first woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director, Lina Wertmüller helmed The Seduction of Mimi, marking the Italian director’s first collaboration with star Mariangela Melato....

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.  Today we discuss Spike Lee! One of our absolute favorite filmmakers! ...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Berlinale coverage. The film opens in theaters on March 27. “The id grows tedious,” art critic Jackson Arn wrote recently, “when left to speak too freely.” The Romanian filmmaker...

“The idea of the young [Marcel] Pagnol visiting the older Pagnol is nowhere to be found in his books,” director Sylvain Chomet tells me when it comes to A Magificent Life, his first film in fifteen years, a wistful animated...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. The film opens in theaters on March 27. Tel Aviv native, defector, and auteur Nadav Lapid opens his fifth feature in a catastrophic state of carouse. A...