The Film Stage

With the bevy of films NEON brought to Cannes Film Festival this year, it’s no surprise some of them will be rolling out in theaters starting this summer. On July 24 (the same day the distributor will release Nicolas Winding...

In 1973, Variety declared John Waters’ breakthrough film Pink Flamingos “one of the most vile, stupid and repulsive films ever made.” In 2022, that same film received a Blu-ray release from the arbiters of official film culture at the Criterion...

While he can soon be heard in the next Minions movie, Jesse Eisenberg’s major cinematic contribution of the year is his third directorial feature, following up 2024’s Oscar-winning A Real Pain. The Debut, which stars Julianne Moore, Paul Giamatti, Halle...

Nobody has ever quite treated images as a building block of narrative and mood like Otar Iosseliani, though you’re forgiven for having no sense of this. A favorite of those who attend the repertory sections of international festivals, the Georgian...

One year on from their Wes Anderson set, the Criterion Collection will debut arguably their most ambitious release this decade: a career-spanning, all-4K Stanley Kubrick retrospective arriving on October 20. Comprising 30—yes, thirty—discs across UHD and Blu-ray editions, it collates...

This year’s Cannes Classics selection was no small thing, yet one object loomed larger than any other (while making a rather formidable start for Warner’s new Clockwork label). Granted a 4K restoration and screening in Ken Russell’s long-obscured cut, The...

Now in its 10th edition, the Nitrate Picture Show—held at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York—is becoming the closest thing American cinephiles have to a pilgrimage. Every year it feels as if half of New York’s film community,...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMA 35mm-heavy Masahiro Shinoda retrospective has begun. Museum of Modern ArtThe expertly programmed Universal Westerns continues with two by Anthony Mann and Budd Boetticher in 3D. Film at Lincoln CenterHistory,...

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. André Is an Idiot (Tony Benna) There is an unbridled honesty to André Is an Idiot that is admirable,...

Comedian John Early has been waiting for his film to be seen by audiences. Premiering at TIFF last fall, Early’s directorial debut is a sublime comedy that commits to simultaneously becoming a serious drama about a woman with a returned...