The Film Stage

It doesn’t take long to work out where you are in Last One for the Road––for the backroads of Veneto, Italy, Francesco Sossai’s delightful new movie has the unmistakable specificity of a life spent there. What you instead start to...

Scottish writer-director Lynne Ramsay returns to feature filmmaking with Die My Love, eight years after You Were Never Really Here. The psycho-drama stars Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson as Grace and Jackson, a young couple with a new baby whose...

On October 7, 2024, Israel’s occupation of Gaza took new shape as a publicly declared war. At the time, Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi was traveling around the world presenting a film about the conflict she experienced firsthand as a child...

November has sequels (Wicked for Good on November 21), festival fare (Die My Love on November 7), international Oscar submissions (Sirât, limited on November 14 before going wide in January), animation (Zootopia 2 on November 26), and remakes (Running Man...

Most of us don’t remember what it was like to be two years old. The first few years of life consist largely of fragmented memories, stories that others have told, and pictures of babies that bear just enough resemblance. But...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Anthology Film ArchivesTwo by Hollis Frampton screen in Essential Cinema; programs curated by Marta Mateus and Bradley Eros play. Museum of Modern ArtA Sofia Coppola series begins with 35mm prints of The Bling...

Shot across a whopping 17 years, Marie Losier’s documentary Peaches Goes Bananas captures the life and career of Canadian electroclash musician and trailblazing queer icon Peaches. Ahead of a theatrical release beginning at NYC’s Anthology Film Archives on December 3...

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...

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. Boys Go to Jupiter (Julian Glander) Boys Go to Jupiter, an animated feature directed...

Admittedly, I hadn’t heard the name Peter Hujar before seeing writer-director Ira Sachs’ latest film, which captures a conversation between Hujar and his friend, Linda Rosenkrantz, about the former’s day in 1974. Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall are phenomenal as...