The Film Stage

Suspended Time Trailer: Olivier Assayas’ Personal Drama Finally Arrives Next Month
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It’s been such a long wait for Olivier Assayas’ Suspended Time, which premiered back at the 2024 Berlinale Film Festival, that the director has already shot another feature in the meantime, with The Wizard of the Kremlin hopefully gearing up...
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NYC Weekend Watch: Kurosawa, Kiarostami, Koyaanisqatsi & More
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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film ForumA number of Akira Kurosawa’s most seminal films play in new 4K restorations, while the 4K restorations of Hearts of Darkness (listen to our interview) of Shall We Dance? continue. Roxy...
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August on the Criterion Channel Includes Maurice Pialat, Michael Roemer, Sammo Hung & More
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Intended or not, the Criterion Channel’s programming of Maurice Pialat and Michael Roemer pairs two auteurs who spoke the same death-riddled language. August’s lineup will bring nine features and one short from the former, four features and one documentary by...
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Exclusive Trailer for Hong Sangsoo’s By the Stream Finds a Day In True Love
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While effectively every Hong Sangsoo film nabs nice responses from those who seek it out, By the Stream has carried a tad more weight––the sense that, after a few years of particularly handmade experiments, his longest feature (still just 111...
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Eddington Review: Ari Aster’s Ambitious 2020 Period Piece Works in Fits and Spurts
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. Eddington opens in theaters on July 18. In Eddington, Ari Aster’s latest doom spiral, the proposed building of a data center in nowhere New Mexico provides the...
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A Little Prayer Trailer: Angus MacLachlan’s Lovely Drama Finally Arrives This August
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A lovely film that has had quite a path to distribution will finally be arriving to close out the summer. Junebug writer Angus MacLachlan’s latest feature A Little Prayer premiered back at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival where it was...
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It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley Trailer Documents a Life Cut Tragically Short
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One of the great artists who had far too little time on this planet, Jeff Buckley’s life and legacy get unearthed in the latest film from Oscar-nominated director Amy Berg. It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, which premiered at Sundance Film...
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Amnesiascope and Rohmer Fits Present Éric Rohmer’s A Tale of Summer July 22—25
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My screening series Amnesiascope will return to the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research on July 22, 24, and 25 with Éric Rohmer’s A Tale of Summer, co-presented by Instagram sensation @rohmerfits and through the cooperation of Janus Films. Following sold-out presentations of The...
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Riefenstahl Trailer Examines the Contradictions of the Nazi Propagandist Filmmaker
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As fascism rears its ugly head once more across the United States and beyond, it is ever more important to remember our heinous history. Written and directed by Andres Veiel, Riefenstahl uses never-before-seen documents from the personal archive of filmmaker...
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Hal Hartley Returns In Where to Land Trailer Starring Bill Sage, Robert John Burke, and Edie Falco
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To paraphrase Kent Jones on John Carpenter: America doesn’t have so many great directors to spare that it can afford to let Hal Hartley fall through the cracks. It’s been 11 years since Ned Rifle, and while a spate of...
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