The Film Stage

How do you make a 2.5-hour movie that feels like it flies by in a third of the time? Meet editor Andy Jurgensen, a long-time collaborator of Paul Thomas Anderson, who has followed up Licorice Pizza with One Battle After...

“From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned,” George Orwell wrote in his 1946 essay “The Prevention of Literature.” Orwell: 2+2=5, the new documentary from Raoul Peck, serves as a stark reminder of...

Spooky season arrives with a lot more non-horror titles than horror ones. It shouldn’t be a surprise considering the genre has become a year-long celebration rather than just the routine of good ones opening in October and bad ones in...

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.  Today we talk about maybe the greatest actor who ever lived:...

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. Caught Stealing (Darren Aronofsky) An oft-exhilarating take on the worn genre––with the occasional caving...

17 years ago, The Film Stage was born in the city of Buffalo. For those living in or near the Western New York city, the Buffalo International Film Festival should certainly be your radar, curated by Artistic Director John J....

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterNYFF Revivals continues with Queen Kelly on Friday and Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars this Sunday. Roxy CinemaStarship Troopers has a 35mm presentation on Friday, while prints of Andrei Rublev and...

Ed Wood died the better part of a half-century ago, and to this day his reputation as the world’s worst filmmaker persists. Even in this era when seemingly everything can be reclaimed, few have made the effort for Plan 9...

One of the most anticipated films in the newly established Competition section at this year’s Busan International Film Festival was Resurrection, an epic look at cinema history from Bi Gan. For almost three hours, his Cannes Jury Special Prize winner...

Cinephiles, rejoice. While there’s no new Quentin Tarantino film on the horizon, a long-awaited holy grail of his filmography is finally getting a major release. Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair––Tarantino’s version of the revenge epic that was originally presented...