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Robert Minervini’s The Damned begins with two wolves tearing into a elk carcass, ripping off its fur and chewing its intestines. This isn’t a nature documentary, but such gruesome images set the harsh tone for a movie imagining what it might be like to follow a regiment of Union soldiers charting unmapped Western territories in 1862. The […]
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Romanian filmmaker Andrei Ujică’s TWST / Things We Said Today exists in the world of Beatlemania. It uses archival footage from the lead-up to the Beatles concert at Shea Stadium in August of 1965, following animated cut-outs of young men and women from around New York as they experience the excitement taking over the city. […]
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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 […]
The post BFI London Review: Eat the Night Mixes Compelling Teenage Malaise With Conventional Crime Drama first appeared on The Film Stage.
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.
