The Film Stage

After fearlessly interrogating man’s capacity for evil in Oscar-nominated documentaries The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer returns with The End, a bunker-bound musical set at the end of the world. Despite that unexpected logline,...

With an awards season and year-end lists that tend to favor films that have been released in the last few months, there’s many films that can go overlooked. For our yearly feature highlighting the 50 best films you might have...

The fight for Palestinian livelihood, repatriation, the Argentine gaucho community, a pair of England’s greatest directors, Chinese textile mills, a legendary artist’s final performance, the frontlines of the war on Ukraine––just a few of the subjects and stories this year’s...

Fifty years after his screenwriting debut via Sydney Pollack’s The Yakuza and a mere forty-six since his directorial debut with Blue Collar, Paul Schrader is still at it. And he’s operating at a higher level than most. A household name...

Christophe Honoré fans have much to celebrate this January. Ahead of his latest feature, the meta Chiara Mastroianni-led Cannes selection Marcello Mio, arriving in U.S. theaters on January 31 from Strand Releasing, one of his most provocative, acclaimed earlier films...

One of the few benefits of the awards race is Hollywood’s outpouring of materials associated with the contenders. Perhaps the biggest perk is the release of full scripts one is able to download legally, directly from the studios. The first...

My friends at Pod Casty for Me––a show that began as a look at the films of Clint Eastwood before transitioning to a series on Paul Schrader––spoke to the latter during his Oh, Canada press tour, scoring an extended and...

Though we aim to discuss a wide breadth of films each year, few things give us more pleasure than the arrival of bold new voices. It’s why we venture to festivals and pore over a variety of different features that...

A premiere at Venice Film Festival last year, Tommaso Santambrogio’s Oceans Are the Real Continents tells a trio of stories of migration, exile, and memory in the Cuban town of San Antonio De Los Baños. Shot in gorgeous black-and-white by...

We’re excited to exclusively announce a new initiative empowering Ukrainian filmmakers and amplifying their voices on the global stage. Roman Coppola’s Decentralized Pictures (DCP) has partnered with organizations RIBBON and the Kyiv-based Kinotron for Full Short, an initiative aimed at empowering Ukrainian filmmakers through...