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. Another year, another attempt to sum up cinema from the last 12 months. From where I stand,...

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. Despite having its detractors (Lav Diaz among them), I find list-making to be quite a healthy, pleasurable...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of the Moving ImageE.T. and a print of Catch Me If You Can offer a Spielberg double-bill on Saturday, when Muppet Christmas Carol also screens. IFC CenterThe entirety of Twin...

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. 100 Nights of Hero (Julia Jackman) Arabian Nights, an expansive collection of Islamic folktales,...

Over the past half-century, production designer Jack Fisk has collaborated with a who’s who of writer-directors, including Terrence Malick, David Lynch, Brian De Palma, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Alejandro González Iñárritu. A few years ago, when he recreated 1920s Fairfax,...

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. In a year of tumultuous upheaval for Hollywood, this year proved that no matter the profit-driven ways...

With The Testament of Ann Lee, writer-director Mona Fastvold and team continue the big swing Herzogian mindset present on last year’s The Brutalist, which she also co-wrote and co-produced with partner Brady Corbet. Whether shooting in Hungary for cheaper set...

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. All but one of the films listed below premiered at a festival. Despite claims to the contrary,...

The time of Exit Elena, Stinking Heaven, and Thirst Street didn’t do much to prepare one for Nathan Silver’s mainstream ascendance. That last year’s Between the Temples pulled the über-difficult trick of maintaining sensibilities in the guise of a movie...

Welcome to 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 discuss America’s everyman and one of its most indelible...