The Film Stage

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film ForumA highlight of Kevin Brownlow’s work brings numerous silent films, including the new restoration of Napoleon; John Schlesinger’s Darling continues in a new restoration; Paddington shows on Sunday morning. Museum of Modern ArtA complete João...

Breaking down the film’s inspirations, influences, and pop culture references—from Steely Dan to Star Wars. Like all of Paul Thomas Anderson’s films, his tenth feature, One Battle After Another is a rich text. A deeply-layered narrative that’s as funny as...

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 David Cronenberg, one of the truly great Canadian...

A truly unforgettable mix of Scorcerer and Mad Max, while directed with a genuine vision of originality, Oliver Laxe’s desert rave thriller Sirāt deservedly picked up the Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. After a festival run...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. Nouvelle Vague opens in theaters on October 31 and arrives on Netflix on November 14. Shot on black-and-white film with the same Cameflex model used by Jean-Luc...

With America’s largest documentary film festival, DOC NYC, kicking off on November 12, we’re pleased to premiere the first trailer and poster for one of the most-anticipated world premieres, Jeremy Xido’s Sons of Detroit. Exploring race, violence, and love in...

If not quite so known as many of his Hong Kong contemporaries, Soi Cheang has mastered nearly every genre and style for which the national cinema is so beloved. While early cult favorites New Blood or the Johnnie To-produced Accident...

Get ready for one award after another this season as Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another has swept the first major nominations of the year with the 2025 Gotham Awards. The comedy-action masterpiece picked up nods for Best Feature,...

Radu Jude flashes on the screen with an AI-generated background of a machine gun-wielding Donald Trump riding a giant kitten. What one is meant to make of this is unclear, but as ever, cinema’s greatest shit-poster starts our conversation off...

A selection at Locarno, New York, BFI London, Viennale, Tokyo, and more film festivals, Marta Mateus’ Fire of Wind was one of the most formally striking feature debuts I saw last year. Picked up by Cinema Guild, the Pedro Costa-produced...