The Film Stage

Winner of the Silver Lion at Venice Film Festival and Tunisia’s Oscar entry, Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab has been devastating audiences on the festival circuit since its premiere. Recently picked up by WILLA, ahead of a...

Following up last year’s acclaimed drama The Brutalist, Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet returned this year with The Testament of Ann Lee, this time with the former directing and the latter co-writing. Thanks to the press tour, we’ve now received a few...

Most filmmakers see piracy as a scourge on their livelihood. Abel Ferrara has what one might call a more pluralistic mindset: “The only thing you need to see them is the internet. Go find the torrents. That’s my big distributor.”...

One of the many special things in Train Dreams, directed by Clint Bentley, is the production design. Nearly every element of each setting feels like it was just sitting there, waiting to be captured. Of course, this is not the...

World premiering in the Centrepiece Section at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Johnny Ma’s comedic drama The Mother and the Bear stars Kim Ho-jung, Won-Jae Lee, Jonathn Kim, and Amara Pedroso in a tale of a mother meddling in...

When he’s not acting as pure imagemaker, Mamoru Oshii is, before anything else, a worldbuilder. One of Japan’s premier multimedia genre auteurs, his “worldview, story, characters” creative philosophy has led to the construction of visionary alternate worlds—prospective futures, alternate pasts,...

Through the eyes of itinerant logger Robert Granier (Joel Edgerton), Train Dreams traces America’s transition from a pioneer land firmly into an industrialized nation through the first half of the 20th Century. Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar are longtime writing...

A couple of weeks ago, just moments after delivering a career-spanning masterclass at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, Catherine George sat down to talk to us on a balcony overlooking Aristotle Square—a pedestrianized area that sits at the end of a...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaThe Straight Story, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, and Interiors play on 35mm while Lex Walton introduces Venom and Eternity on Friday. BAMAn Angela Bassett series, featuring 35mm prints of Strange Days and Waiting...

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. After the Hunt (Luca Guadagnino) “It’s a fucking minefield, Alma,” the Dean of Humanities...