The Film Stage

Premiering in Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. Dramatic Competition section today at Eccles, Ramzi Bashour’s feature debut Hot Water tells a perceptive, humorous mother-son tale set amongst a cross-country road movie. Starring Lubna Azabal (Incendies) and Daniel Zolghadri (Funny Pages, Lurker),...

One of the most creative takes on the pandemic era came a few years ago with the lo-fi, humorous New Strains, and now directors Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan are returning with Removal of the Eye. Once again mining from...

Like a movie tie-in, John Wilson’s debut documentary feature, The History of Concrete, picks up immediately where his HBO series How To with John Wilson left off after three seasons. An elevated public profile does not lead to the next...

If a ticking nuclear bomb is threatening to destroy your city and the only way to defuse it is to band together as a community, setting aside personal and professional differences for the greater good, would you do it? This...

Ahead of the 98th Academy Awards on March 15––still nearly two months away––this year’s nominations have been unveiled. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners leads the pack with a whopping, record-setting 16 nominations, while Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is close...

While Kiyoshi Kurosawa hardly leaves us wanting for new work—2024 saw the premiere of three projects, one of which landed high on our best-of-2025 list and another that’s still lacking U.S. distribution—at 70, his continued prolificacy is no safe bet....

It’s a year of major change for the Sundance Film Festival: not only does 2026 mark the final in their long-time home of Park City, Utah, but it’s also the first edition without two key guiding figures. Robert Redford, who...

Though it is often pegged to David Lynch, who financed the film and makes a fun cameo, Nadja is really a showcase par excellence for Michael Almereyda, long one of America’s finest filmmakers who, like so many in that class,...

February is about love, but love often—some might say always—does not go one’s way. Thus there’s yearning, and also “Yearning,” a new program where amour isn’t so much fou as mort: In the Mood for Love, The Deep Blue Sea,...

Few developments in Paul Thomas Anderson’s career—his ironclad collaboration with Jonny Greenwood or pivot to period pieces or embracing of long-dormant shooting and projection formats—are more consequential than his slow drift from traditionally defined cinematographer duties. A long-term relationship with...