The Film Stage

In 2008, Juliette Binoche paired with dancer Akram Khan for in-i, an experimental dance work about a couple’s dissolving relationship. They performed the piece 120 times in theaters around the world. Binoche’s sister Marion Stalens shot a documentary about the production,...

In the last five-or-so years I’ve probably not acquainted myself with a better filmmaker than João César Monteiro, who I’d either distill as the closest analogue cinema had to Philip Roth or, per my friend Ian Barr, “like Chaplin’s Tramp...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Cannes coverage. The Hyperboreans is now streaming on Film Movement+. “We humans are capable of greatness,” reads the first line in Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña’s The Hyperboreans as...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Japan SocietyIn perhaps the best series of the year, Japanese teacher and critic Shiguéhiko Hasumi has programmed Another History of the Movie in America and Japan, featuring films by Mizoguchi,...

Bradley Cooper’s Is This Thing On? opens with both a simple and incredibly complex question: is this thing over? Alex and Tess Novak (Will Arnett and Laura Dern) are at their wits’ end after decades of marriage. They love their...

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. Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra) Albert Serra’s new film Afternoons of Solitude is more akin to...

One of the most heartbreaking documentaries of the year, Sepideh Farsi’s Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk premiered at Cannes just weeks after the Israeli occupation murdered the film’s subject, 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist and poet Fatma Hassona. Constructed through passages...

About halfway through his sentimental and ruminative documentary Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost, director Ben Stiller reveals that his parents––actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara––spent the majority of their life together sleeping in separate but adjoining bedrooms. It’s a small,...

One October after Lebron and Bronny James made history as the first father-son duo to play on the same NBA team, Daniel Day-Lewis has come out of retirement to star in his son’s debut feature, Anemone. Since graduating with a...

Premiering at the Venice Film Festival where it picked up the well-deserved Golden Lion, Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother is one of the loveliest, most delicately woven films of the year. Returning to the episodic structure of Night on...