The Film Stage

A full decade since The Neon Demon—with mega-length streaming projects Too Old to Die Young and Copenhagen Cowboy perhaps comprising a separate, wholly worthwhile career—Nicolas Winding Refn returned to feature filmmaking with Her Private Hell. Neon will give the feature a theatrical run just two...

One of the highest-grossing films in South Korean history upon its 2001 release, Kwak Jae-yong’s rom-com reinvention My Sassy Girl has now been restored in 4K from its original negative for its 25th anniversary. Set for a North American premiere...

My favorite discovery back at the 2024 New York Film Festival was Yashaddai Owens’ Jimmy, a jazzy, French New Wave-esque portrait imagining James Baldwin’s (Benny O. Arthur) arrival in Paris in November 1948. With a plethora of biographical dramas seemingly...

Alex Cox has made (reportedly) his final film: a Western adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s classic novel Dead Souls. The book follows a drifter in Tsarist Russia who travels from town to town collecting the names of serfs who’ve died since...

Their record-breaking Obsession isn’t the only horror feature on Focus Features’ slate this year. Robert Eggers’ Werwulf will arrive come Christmas time, the same window in which Nosferatu earned over $180 million for the distributor two years prior. Reteaming with...

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. Avatar: Fire and Ash (James Cameron) James Cameron closes a chapter on big filmmaking...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMA 35mm-heavy Masahiro Shinoda retrospective continues. Museum of Modern ArtThe expertly programmed Universal Westerns continues with King Vidor on 35mm, Clint Eastwood, and Don Seigel. Film at Lincoln CenterAn Elaine May retrospective begins. Film ForumA...

Apologies in advance to Christopher Nolan, but the ensemble period epic we’re most looking forward to in July hails from Kiyoshi Kurosawa. The Samurai and the Prisoner—led by Masahiro Motoki, Masaki Suda, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Joe Odagiri, Munetaka Aoki, Ryota Miyadate,...

Late Fame finds that not-so-common sweet spot between caustic and elegiac, Willem Dafoe (a vision of resparked enthusiasm) and Greta Lee (a vision of too-sparked eagerness) making a meal from Samy Burch (May December) adapting Arthur Schnitzler’s novella, while Kent...

As we approach 2026’s halfway point, it’s time to take a temperature of the finest cinema thus far: we’ve rounded up our favorites from the first six months of this year, some of which have flown under the radar. Kindly...