The Film Stage

Misericordia Review: A Galvanizing Ode to the Power and Subversiveness of Desire  
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our Cannes 2024 coverage. Misericordia will be released in theaters on Marach 21 from Janus Films/Sideshow. In a career spanning four decades and eight features, Alain Guiraudie has cemented himself as...
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Mirror of Life, a Ten-Film Manoel de Oliveira Retrospective, Comes to BAM on March 28
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98% of interviews follow the same pleasantries-exchange / question-and-answer / pleasantries-exchange format, yet there are those rare times an incredible opportunity arrives. Which is to say that when I interviewed Paulo Branco at last year’s Tokyo International Film Festival I...
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Alain Guiraudie on Misericordia, Desiring His Actors, and Praise from Godard and Bret Easton Ellis
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If Alain Guiraudie has still not quite transcended festival obscurity to become an American art-house staple, all the more credit to the films––they’ve never approached niceties, comfortability, or a distillation of bleak perspectives for co-production amenability. But if anything must...
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Materialists Trailer: Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal Lead Celine Song’s Rom-Com
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Quickly following the success of her Best Picture-nominated directorial debut Past Lives, writer-director Celine Song embarked on production on her follow-up last year. Materialists, which brings together the formidable trio of Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal, has now...
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SXSW Review: Andrew Patterson’s The Rivals of Amziah King is a Gleeful Genre Mash-Up
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Like the Church potluck to which Amziah King introduces his one-time foster daughter Kateri, The Rivals of Amziah King is a gleeful mashup of genres and tones blending bluegrass music, comedy, revenge, and heist-thriller elements into a tasty homestyle buffet full...
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The Ugly Stepsister Trailer: Cinderella Gets a Sinister Twist in Sundance and Berlinale Selection
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If you are looking for a bit more bite in your fairy tale adaptations, a few weeks after Disney’s Snow White sputters to theaters, the Sundance and Berlinale selection The Ugly Stepsister is here to provide quite a jolt. Emilie...
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Chloë Sevigny Interrupts a Summer Respite in First Trailer for Bonjour Tristesse, Arriving in May
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Following its TIFF premiere last fall, Durga Chew-Bose’s Françoise Sagan adaptation Bonjour Tristesse recently traveled to New York, opening the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look. Now, Greenwich Entertainment has set a May 2 theatrical debut for the drama...
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Baby Invasion Trailer: Harmony Korine Teams with Burial to Push Cinematic Boundaries
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While Gummo, Trash Humpers, and Spring Breakers director Harmony Korine has always pushed the edge of cinema, his latest EDGLRD projects certainly bring him into a new echelon. Following his infrared crime thriller/nightmare AGGRO DR1FT, he’s back with Baby Invasion,...
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Andrew Ahn Invites You to The Wedding Banquet in New Trailer for Remake
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The latest from Driveways and Fire Island director Andrew Ahn is The Wedding Banquet, a remake of the Ang Lee classic. The film brings together Lily Gladstone, Bowen Yang, Kelly Marie Tran, Joan Chen, Han Gi-chan, and Youn Yuh-jung, with a script...
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Mamoru Oshii Expresses Hopes for Ghost in the Shell 3
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Two decades have been kind to Ghost in the Shell: Innocence, the only animated feature to debut in competition at Cannes and recent recipient of a 20th-anniversary 4K restoration. But Mamoru Oshii isn’t done with his opus, having recently stated,...
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