The Film Stage

Premiering at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (aka PÖFF), which kicks off November 8 in Estonia, Signe Birkova’s Lotus is among the lineup’s most intriguing titles. Shot on a mix of 8mm, 16mm, and 35mm, including silent-film portions shot with...

Guy Maddin is singular enough that the lending of his talents to another, far-younger director’s work perks up the ears. But one can understand such affinity within seconds of Dylan Greenberg’s The Triangular Door, a short whose form and tone...

Happy Halloween from 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 one of the greats––Vincent Price! Our...

The Wolfpack director Crystal Moselle showed a deft hand in bringing a documentary-like authenticity to her drama Skate Kitchen. She’s now expanding those skills, heading out of NYC with The Black Sea, co-directed and starring Derrick B. Harden in a...

Just one year after his documentary Silver Dollar Road, director Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro, Exterminate All the Brutes) returned to the fall festival circuit this year with Ernest Cole: Lost and Found. Featuring narration by LaKeith Stanfield,...

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. Daaaaaalí! (Quentin Dupieux) At the time of year where every other film is a...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMRobert Frank and Rudy Wurlitzer’s Candy Mountain begins screening in a new restoration. (Watch our exclusive trailer debut.) Museum of the Moving ImageMonsters Inc. and What About Bob? play in...

With many annual awards ceremonies, even those that brand themselves celebrators of indie filmmaking, seemingly highlighting films that don’t necessarily need the boost, it’s refreshing when one truly highlights the indie spirit. Enter The Indie Awards, “an annual event dedicated...

For his first feature of two features this year, Hongsangsoo made a long-awaited reunion with Isabelle Huppert. Following In Another Country and Claire’s Camera, the duo teamed up again for A Traveler’s Needs, one of the prolific director’s best in...

Now that almost all of the year’s documentaries have premiered, it’s clear that there will be none more essential than Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor’s No Other Land. Premiering at Berlinale earlier this year where it...