The Film Stage

“A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist—moving an audience through a movie […] making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark,” said the late, great Gordon Willis. As our year-end coverage continues, we must...

Paris-based filmmakers Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley make their return with Room Temperature. Despite both hailing from California, this is their third collaboration yet first production to be shot in the United States. Set against the glare of the High...

Robert Grainier lives a narrow life of hard work and sudden, inexplicable tragedy. As played by Joel Edgerton in Train Dreams, he’s someone who looks on from afar, who watches rather than participates.  Based on a novella by Denis Johnson,...

In a year that’s felt defined by a sense of hysteria and confusion, the only thing I truly wanted from a film festival was escape. I’m over cinema that tries to posture itself as a force of political change. Genuine...

One of the most powerful of the Best International Feature Film contenders this year is Palestine’s entry, Annemarie Jacir’s Palestine 36, which takes a sweeping yet intimate look at a pivotal moment in history for the Palestinian people under British...

In the opening of 1969’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, George Lazenby, the replacement for Sean Connery’s immediately iconic James Bond, looks at the camera, smiles, and says, “This never happened to the other fella.” Debate amongst Bond die-hards has...

As the curtain comes down on 2025, the time for holiday films and Oscar hopefuls has arrived. A quick glance at the schedule, however, shows plenty of the latter and none of the former. I guess the remake of Silent...

It’s a dark, devastating day for the theatrical movie experience. After a banner year for Warner Bros, capped off by IMAX 70mm re-releases for One Battle After Another and Ryan Coogler’s Sinners next week, it’s now been officially confirmed that...

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. Anemone (Ronan Day-Lewis) The first time Daniel Day-Lewis shows up in Anemone, he’s cloaked in...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterThe long-underseen work of Kōzaburō Yoshimura is subject of a new series featuring 35 and 16mm prints. IFC CenterTodd Haynes’ Safe begins playing in a 30th-anniversary 4K...