The Film Stage

With America’s largest documentary film festival, DOC NYC, kicking off on November 12, we’re pleased to premiere the first trailer and poster for one of the most-anticipated world premieres, Jeremy Xido’s Sons of Detroit. Exploring race, violence, and love in...

If not quite so known as many of his Hong Kong contemporaries, Soi Cheang has mastered nearly every genre and style for which the national cinema is so beloved. While early cult favorites New Blood or the Johnnie To-produced Accident...

Get ready for one award after another this season as Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another has swept the first major nominations of the year with the 2025 Gotham Awards. The comedy-action masterpiece picked up nods for Best Feature,...

Radu Jude flashes on the screen with an AI-generated background of a machine gun-wielding Donald Trump riding a giant kitten. What one is meant to make of this is unclear, but as ever, cinema’s greatest shit-poster starts our conversation off...

A selection at Locarno, New York, BFI London, Viennale, Tokyo, and more film festivals, Marta Mateus’ Fire of Wind was one of the most formally striking feature debuts I saw last year. Picked up by Cinema Guild, the Pedro Costa-produced...

Premiering back at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002, renowned Native American novelist and screenwriter Sherman Alexie’s feature debut The Business of Fancydancing has now been restored and is coming to theaters next month. The film embodies what Alexie described...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of Modern ArtA complete João César Monteiro retrospective (watch our exclusive trailer debut) continues with some of his most notable films (including God’s Comedy) as well as the director’s inspirations: Nosferatu,...

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. Anemone (Ronan Day-Lewis) The first time Daniel Day-Lewis shows up in Anemone, he’s cloaked in...

As 2025 winds down, like most cinephiles, we’re looking to get our eyes on titles that may have slipped under the radar or simply gone unseen, so—as we do each year—we’re sharing a rundown of the best titles available to...

Given her work in and around cinema, it’s no surprise that Stephanie LaCava would write a novel that is, no small feat, cinematic. Said novel is Nymph, a slim and elliptical and fully satisfying character piece about a young woman,...