The Film Stage

One of the most heartbreaking documentaries of the year, Sepideh Farsi’s Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk premiered at Cannes just weeks after the Israeli occupation murdered the film’s subject, 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist and poet Fatma Hassona. Constructed through passages...

About halfway through his sentimental and ruminative documentary Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost, director Ben Stiller reveals that his parents––actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara––spent the majority of their life together sleeping in separate but adjoining bedrooms. It’s a small,...

One October after Lebron and Bronny James made history as the first father-son duo to play on the same NBA team, Daniel Day-Lewis has come out of retirement to star in his son’s debut feature, Anemone. Since graduating with a...

Premiering at the Venice Film Festival where it picked up the well-deserved Golden Lion, Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother is one of the loveliest, most delicately woven films of the year. Returning to the episodic structure of Night on...

With more ideas per minute, perhaps second, than any other film this year, Radu Jude’s take on Dracula actually features many takes. Following its New York Film Festival premiere, 1-2 Special will now release the film on October 29 and...

Premiering to instant acclaim at Venice Film Festival earlier this fall, Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice will now be coming to the U.S. for a New York Film Festival this week ahead of NEON’s Christmas day release. The adaptation of Donald E....

German director Ulrich Köhler’s Gavagai attempts to play upon its title, focusing on the idea of misunderstanding. Gavagai, a made-up word popularized by philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine, looks at translation of a word––or in this film, translation of a...

Following up the imaginative Strawberry Mansion with another DIY-style adventure, Albert Birney returned to Sundance Film Festival earlier this year with OBEX, a film that should delight fans of David Lynch and RPG videogames alike. Picked up by Oscilloscope for...

Though news has been slow enough to assume Michael Mann’s Heat 2 might not move forward, today brings the major update that the sequel––based on the 2022 novel the director co-authored with Meg Gardiner––has been acquired by Amazon MGM Studios...

Christian Petzold’s Miroirs No. 3 has arrived stateside and, on the occasion of its NYFF premiere, I had the pleasure of speaking to him yesterday morning. Our full conversation will arrive with the film’s theatrical release next spring, but it...