The Film Stage

One of the best films I saw at TIFF last year is finally getting a release nearly a year after its premiere. Netflix picked up Azazel Jacob’s deeply moving drama His Three Daughters, starring Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen, and Natasha...

As the fall festival season continues to take shape, we now know when one of our most-anticipated films will arrive in North America. Film at Lincoln Center announced Steve McQueen’s Blitz, starring Saoirse Ronan and Elliott Heffernan, will be the...

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. 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 return to discuss a living...

A certain type of cinephile weeb (hello) esteems maybe no post-New Wave Japanese director more highly than Shinji Sômai, but it’s the nature of such fandom that his brilliance––expertly plotted, emotionally precise films shot in some of the most incredible...

After a handful of delays, Jeremy Saulnier’s Hold the Dark follow-up Rebel Ridge finally has a release date, and it’s much sooner than expected. Set to arrive on Netflix on September 6, the first images have now arrived for the...

After taking on Indiana Jones, James Mangold is jumping to someone even more ubiquitous in culture: the legendary Bob Dylan. Featuring Timothée Chalamet as the man himself, A Complete Unknown also stars Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook,...

A mash-up of cheerleading and soccer tropes, Victory is like a shiny, bright beach toy that breaks the first time you use it. The opening-night presentation at this year’s New York Asian Film Festival, it has enough hit tunes and...

Mingling retrospectives, themed series, and a handful of new films’ streaming premieres, MUBI’s August 2024 lineup is unveiled. At the top comes “American Outsider: The Films of Kelly Reichardt,” which joins Wendy and Lucy and Meek’s Cutoff with the already-playing...

While watching the latest take on Alexandre Dumas’ literary classic, this time by directors Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte (who just adapted Dumas’ The Three Musketeers in 2023), I wondered if I was enjoying myself for the wrong...

David Lynch’s slow drip of material continues apace. In the month since announcing his and Chrystabell’s new album Cellophane Memories he’s released two music videos––expected roll-out for a project of this kind. Which makes a bit more compelling Lynch’s latest...