Side! Here we sometimes talk about movie stars! We sometimes talk about movie directors! Today, we talk about both!

Perhaps no line of dialogue better encapsulates lived experience than this bon mot offered by John Huston’s Noah Cross: “Of ...

What a pleasure it is to see Kiyoshi Kurosawa in his Hong Sangsoo period. The typically prolific filmmaker had an especially ...

We're now less than three months away from Paul Thomas Anderson's highly anticipated One Battle After Another. The September ...

As we approach 2025’s halfway point it’s time to take a temperature of the finest cinema thus far: we’ve rounded up our ...

Wasn’t I lucky to come of age in my favorite city? For one thing, my impressionable undergraduate years fell during J.

When people call music cinematic, I think they just mean it sounds like it could be in a movie. About which, fair: being in a ...

With Wes Anderson's newest film The Phoenician Scheme now in theaters, he's now reteamed with Montblanc for a new short film ...

For our most comprehensive year-end feature, we’re providing a cumulative look at The Film Stage’s favorite films of 2024. We’ve asked contributors to compile ten-best lists with five honorable ...

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 ...

As the arthouse cinema market continues to regain its footing, the list of what may be considered an overlooked film could be quite vast, depending on one’s metrics. For our yearly feature ...