A world-cinema fixture who's earned the support of Martin Scorsese, M. Night Shyamalan, Olivier Assayas, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Béla Tarr, Claire Denis, Christian Petzold, Tilda Swinton, and ...

Japan is hardly known for placing limits on cinema; one might posit that young cinephiles largely enter the nation’s incomprehensibly dense corpus through its most extreme offerings. While most ...

As the year nears its conclusion, November brings another incredible slate of films, including a few that'll certainly be among my top ten of 2025 list. While not included below, this month also ...

Two years after Wong Kar Wai’s Blossoms Shanghai premiered in China, the long-awaited series will now be coming to America. Beginning on November 24, the Criterion Channel will exclusively premiere ...

As 2025 winds down, like most cinephiles, we’re looking to get our eyes on titles that may have slipped under the radar or ...

From just his scripts alone, Charlie Kaufman is certainly one of the most distinctive voices in American cinema, be it Being ...

The world has long needed a memoir from Abel Ferrara, and now we’ve got one, along with smart studies of the lives and ...

For our final year-end feature, we’re providing a cumulative look at our favorite films of 2014 here at The Film Stage. Over the last few days a variety of contributors have published their personal ...

For our most comprehensive year-end feature we’re providing a cumulative look at The Film Stage’s favorite films of 2023. We’ve asked contributors to compile ten-best lists with five honorable ...

Looking for what to see in theaters? Our feature, updated weekly, highlights our top recommendations for films currently in theaters, from new releases to restorations receiving a proper theatrical ...

For our most comprehensive year-end feature we’re providing a cumulative look at The Film Stage’s favorite films of 2021. We’ve asked contributors to compile ten-best lists with five honorable ...