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Jane Schoenbrun didn’t invent movies exploring teenage malaise and identity through the lens of pop culture, but in the opening moments of Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel’s Eat the Night, echoes of their two acclaimed features immediately rise to the surface. Much like the protagonist of We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, 17-year-old Apolline […]
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It wouldn’t be the Christmas season without an Alfonso Cuarón-backed holiday short film directed by a prominent director arriving on Disney+. Following Alice Rohrwacher’s Oscar-nominated short Le pupille a few years ago, David Lowery has now helmed An Almost Christmas Story, a 21-minute short he co-wrote with Cuarón and Jack Thorne. Ahead of streaming on […]
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In between releasing two new features this year (Challengers and Queer), along with shooting another (After the Hunt), Luca Guadagnino has found time to team with Chanel for a new short film ad. Led by Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, who will soon reteam for Emerald Fennell’s adaptatiom of Wuthering Heights, it’s an expectedly stylish […]
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For the 550th episode of The Film Stage Show, Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr have a major announcement: after over 12 years, hundreds and hundreds of guests, and thousand-plus hours of discussions, The Film Stage Show is coming to an end. We bid farewell with a discussion of a film in the works decades before […]
The post The Film Stage Show Farewell Episode – Megalopolis first appeared on The Film Stage.
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Brooklyn Center for Theatre ResearchÉric Rohmer’s A Tale of Autumn screens on Sunday courtesy of Amnesiascope and Rohmer Fits. Roxy CinemaA 35mm print of Silent Hill shows Friday and Saturday, as does a Radiohead-scored Nosferatu; the latter day brings Apocalypse Now: Final Cut and a print […]
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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. Bad Boys: Ride or Die (Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah) Bad Boys: Ride or Die is a film about retribution and redemption. Not just on screen, but in execution. […]
The post New to Streaming: ME, Coma, Hundreds of Beavers, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person & More first appeared on The Film Stage.
With only three stellar features to her name in the last two-plus decades, The Forest for the Trees, Everyone Else, and Toni Erdmann, every new film from Maren Ade comes with much anticipation. While she’s also stayed busy producing no shortage of great work with Tabu, Arabian Nights, Western, In My Room, The Whistlers, Ahed’s […]
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Writer-director duo Scott McGehee and David Siegel have been working together for 30 years, since their debut thrilled Suture in 1994. Since then, they’ve only made seven films, with their latest being The Friend, a comedy-drama adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s award-winning novel. Starring Naomi Watts and a Great Dane named Bing, the film follows a […]
The post The Friend Directors Scott McGehee & David Siegel on Finding the Perfect Dog, Bill Murray’s Notes, and Avoiding Cliches first appeared on The Film Stage.
With only two feature films, Georgian writer-director Dea Kulumbegashvili has collected some of the highest accolades in the film world. Her astonishing debut Beginning received a Cannes label at the festival’s canceled pandemic edition and won four of the seven competitive prizes in San Sebastián that same year, including the Golden Shell for Best Film. […]
The post “Nobody Can See It In Georgia”: April Director Dea Kulumbegashvili on State Suppression and Luca Guadagnino’s Protection first appeared on The Film Stage.
