The Film Stage

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...

With imagery quite literally conjured from the deepest bowels of darkness, it’s clear why Nosferatu has been on the mind of Robert Eggers since he saw F. W. Murnau’s silent classic at the impressionable age of nine. The director’s fourth...

Following up his debut feature Thief, Michael Mann embarked on The Keep, a supernatural horror thriller set in Romania during World War II that, amidst editing troubles, would go on to be director’s most derided film. Now about four decades...

As 2024 comes to a close, much of the month will be dedicated to wrapping up the year in cinema with a plethora of year-end features (bookmark here for those), but let’s take a deeper look at the December line-up....

Those who’ve seen his films know Ed Lachman as a key collaborator of (naming just some) Todd Haynes, Sofia Coppola, Steven Sodebergh, Paul Schrader, and Pablo Larraín, with whom his latest collaboration, Maria, is now in theaters and soon on...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film ForumThe Wages of Fear plays in a 4K restoration, while Labyrinth screens on Sunday. IFC CenterA 4K restoration of Carrie plays daily; Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Ichi the Killer, Threads, and Alien show late....

As a special holiday gift to The Film Stage podcast feed, listen to a new Box Office Bonanza! Here we talk about random box office weekends and where they fit into our lives. The movies, the memories! This episode features...