The Film Stage

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. My initial assessment of this year of cinema is one of disappointment. I have never felt more...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. I’ve been lucky to see so many movies over the last year, to speak with filmmakers, to...

Few films of late have better pitched themselves than Palestine 36, which assumes the form of a respectable historic drama—international co-funding, some notable actors to polish that process, and a sturdy, not-too-flashy visual palette—to detail Palestine’s troubled pre-Zionist history with...

Shortlisted as one of fifteen films vying for the Best Documentary Short Film at the 98th Academy Awards, perfectly a strangeness marks the first short film from Canadian filmmaker Alison McAlpine, director of the wondrous 2017 feature Cielo. Ahead of...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of Modern ArtA yearly highlight of New York’s repertory programming, To Save and Project begins with films by Michael Almereyda, Lino Brocka, Victor Fleming, Bertrand Tavernier, and more. Film...

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. Peter Hujar’s Day (Ira Sachs) When I look at Peter Hujar’s portrait of poet Allen...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. Creating a year-end list engages with three distinct moments in time: you’re reflecting on the moment exactly...

I’d heard from a couple reliable places that Brian De Palma was done with filmmaking; I’m very glad that they’re wrong. A little over a year ago, the man himself confirmed intent to produce “one other film” that was already...

A truly unforgettable mix of Scorcerer and Mad Max, while directed with a genuine vision of originality, Oliver Laxe’s desert rave thriller Sirāt deservedly picked up the Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. After a festival run...

Filipino writer, director, editor, production designer, and cinematographer Lav Diaz is over 25 features deep into a three-decade-long career, and he continues to one-up himself. With Magellan––a biopic that couldn’t be less biopic, and one of the year’s greatest surprises––he...