The Film Stage

Woe betide Sofia Coppola skeptics, but a 58-second liquor ad suggests nice paycheck before manicured artistic intent. Still it’s nice seeing the director reunite with the star of her best film (Somewhere‘s very own Elle Fanning) for a quick, floral...

Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play. Not A Movie. A Play is in fact a documentary self-portrait, at times providing a behind-the-scenes look at the workshopping of Harris’ provocative and acclaimed Tony-nominated play. Harris, with a filmography that includes co-writing Zola,...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterA Catherine Breillat retrospective begins, featuring many restorations; Before Sunset screens outdoors on Friday. Museum of Modern ArtA career-spanning Powell and Pressburger retrospective begins. Roxy CinemaFellox Roxy...

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. Aftersun (Charlotte Wells) One of the 2022’s most resonant films, Aftersun looks at the...

Here’s a nice summer surprise: a new action thriller directed by John Woo is arriving this August. Following up last year’s Silent Night, Woo has directed a reimagining of his own 1989 classic, The Killer. Scripted by Brian Helgeland, the...

Jac Cron’s Chestnut is undoubtedly more instructive than it is enjoyable. Instructive because it brings to the fore many of the dominant features of Gen Z gloom––aimless drifting, technological alienation, suppression of creativity, hook-up culture––and organizes them within a modern...

While you’ll have to go see Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders this weekend to get a look at the first trailer for Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu, another horror feature from the Eggers family is arriving earlier and today brings the first preview....

When, just last month, I talked to Richard Linklater about this prolific moment in his career, I had zero notion he’d been well into preparing a new-new film––following Hit Man, Hometown Prison, and the yet-to-premiere Nouvelle Vague, which says nothing...

As much a standard-bearer for behind-the-scenes docs as Hearts of Darkness––maybe there’s something about watching famed auteurs lose their grip in the jungle––Les Blank’s Burden of Dreams cuts through much mythos and memery that’s defined Werner Herzog, burrowing deep into...

Expanding the cinematic universe of her first feature The Unknown Country, Morrisa Maltz’s Jazzy is a beautifully crafted portrait of childhood in South Dakota, conjuring an aesthetic that at times recalls the ethereal works of Sofia Coppola. Made in close...