The Film Stage

The February lineup for the Criterion Collection has been unveiled, featuring Sidney Lumet’s satire masterwork Network, the Coen Brothers’ The Man Who Wasn’t There, an Eclipse set featuring Ernst Lubitsch musicals, Delmer Davies’ 3:10 to Yuma, Jacques Tati’s PlayTime on...

How do you pick up the pieces when your life falls apart? A Love Song director Max Walker-Silverman’s second feature Rebuilding is a wonderfully lived-in, empathetic folk tale of a movie following Josh O’Connor’s character after his house is burned...

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.  Today we discuss Richard Linklater! He’s an American indie legend who...

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. Eddington (Ari Aster) In Eddington, Ari Aster’s latest doom spiral, the proposed building of a...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAM35mm prints of Boarding Gate, The Insider, and The Firm screen in Corporate Thrillers. Anthology Film ArchivesA series devoted to avant-garde ads begins this weekend. Roxy CinemaDay of the Dead, The...

Having enjoyed a conversation with him just last year, I was obviously glad to speak with Richard Linklater about Nouvelle Vague, his film concerning the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless and, in effect, the story of modern cinema’s big bang....

Premiering at the renowned festival True/False, Ian Bell’s acclaimed archival documentary WTO/99 follows the clash between the then-emerging World Trade Organization (WTO) and the more than 40,000 people who took to the streets of Seattle in 1999 to protest the...

Coming off one of the best films of the decade with Pacifiction and one of the best documentaries of this year with Afternoons of Solitude, Albert Serra is already in post-production on his next feature, Out of This World. Led...

With his debut feature, Arco, Ugo Bienvenu puts a unique, thought-provoking twist on the solarpunk genre. He gives us a glimpse of the sort of sustainable utopia that one would expect from the genre: clean air, luscious gardens, thriving wildlife,...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. Rebuilding opens in theaters on November 14. We can all feel lonely. Even if we’re constantly surrounded by people, we can find ourselves detached or isolated––lost in...