The Film Stage

Six years since Uncut Gems, Josh and Benny Safdie have forged separate paths—both are set to release major new films from A24 this fall. After Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine will hit theaters on October 3, A24 will debut Josh...

Whether it’s a tough marketplace, debuting at a crowded festival, or the fairly established fact that most people don’t want to see films pertaining to COVID (look no further than Bertrand Bonello’s Coma), Olivier Assayas’ Suspended Time has, from its...

Premiering earlier this year at Sundance Film Festival where it picked up the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for its ensemble, Carmen Emmi’s feature debut Plainclothes stars Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey in a story of an undercover officer in...

Passages and Love Is Strange director Ira Sachs returned to the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year to debut Peter Hujar’s Day, a drama starring Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall, depicting a conversation recorded in 1974 between photographer Peter Hujar...

After their Main Slate and Currents lineups have been unveiled, the 63rd New York Film Festival has now revealed its Spotlight selections. Highlights include the world premiere of Anemone, marking Daniel Day-Lewis’ first role since 2017’s Phantom Thread, alongside world...

To know Dan Sallitt’s cinema is to only wish for more. After 2019’s Fourteen, his rough rate of one feature every seven years will hold in rather surprising, welcome fashion: Sallitt has shared with me information on What Can’t Be...

Long before they came to designate a state of hopeless confusion, the words “mare’s nest” once meant something more electrifying: the excitement for that which doesn’t exist. That’s a good way of thinking about the cinema of Ben Rivers. Perched...

In Nine Behind, one of Sophy Romvari’s earliest shorts, a young woman is heard sobbing on the phone to her estranged grandfather: “I want to know my family.” It’s a line that haunts all the films the director’s made since....

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterA career-spanning Luc Moullet retrospective begins; In the Mood for Love and In the Mood for Love 2001 continue. Museum of Modern ArtA Michael Caine retrospective begins. Film ForumThe long-lost director’s...

Made when he was 33, not to be followed by another feature for some 20 years, and effectively starting the career of cinema’s oldest-ever filmmaker, Aniki-Bóbó has been somewhat lost among the legendary career of Manoel de Oliveira. For fans...