The Film Stage

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. Blue Sun Palace (Constance Tsang) Shot largely on location in Queens, Blue Sun Palace...

One of the few filmmakers to earn a Palme d’Or twice over, Bille August started his career with a pair of period dramas that have been largely forgotten by contemporary audiences. Altered Innocence will amend the oversight with their release...

Following their Main Slate announcement, the 63rd New York Film Festival has unveiled its Currents lineup, featuring 40 boundary-pushing films from around the world. Highlights include Tsai Ming-liang’s new feature Back Home; Radu Jude’s second feature of the festival, Dracula;...

When the world of physical media often lacks hope, good news can land very hard. Case in point: the Criterion Collection have announced the return of their Eclipse series, which spent a little over 10 years doing as much (more?)...

Seventeen years after her directorial debut Yeast, which gave Greta Gerwig one of her very first roles, Mary Bronstein finally returns with her second feature, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. The Sundance and Berlinale selection, which stars Rose...

We can admire those who (brilliantly) craft entire feature films on iPhones, but the choice to shoot a three-hour feature with a Sony Ericsson––a device which ceased manufacturing in 2011––reaches an altogether different level of formal bravery. Alexandre Koberidze will...

Boys Go to Jupiter, an animated feature directed and written by Pittsburgh-based 3D artist Julian Glander, is truly a product of its time. And that time is now. As the press notes mention: “[The film] was self-produced and animated entirely...

Amy Berg’s It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley is an impressive archival document as well as a celebration of the life of a tortured artist. And while the term “tortured artist” is certainly overused, it feels especially apt when writing about Buckley. Here was a...

Reteaming with Netflix after his ambitious misstep White Noise, Noah Baumbach is getting introspective. Jay Kelly stars George Clooney and Adam Sandler as a movie star and his manager, respectively, as they reflect on life and their careers on a...

For as long as we’ve known about Weapons, writer-director Zach Cregger’s hotly anticipated follow-up to his 2022 blackly comic splatter sensation Barbarian, we have heard endlessly that it’s the supernatural horror genre’s epic equivalent to Magnolia––not exactly the most marketable...