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Remembering Tom Noonan with Keith Uhlich Last month brought suitable mourning for Robert Duvall and Frederick Wiseman, whose legacies are so enshrined that the lengthy obituaries published by major outlets could have—likely were—written years ago. But immediately after came a quieter announcement that hit me hardest: Tom Noonan, the actor best-known for his collaborations with Michael Mann and Charlie Kaufman, and […] The post Remembering Tom Noonan with Keith Uhlich first appeared on The Film Stage.
06.03.2026 16:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Posterized March 2026: Dry Leaf, Dead Lover, Touch Me & More It’s Oscar month—perhaps one of the most dreaded times of the year for studios hoping to launch new releases. Not only are Oscar contenders still in theaters or finally hitting them at the tail-end of their rollouts, but winners are going to be re-released in days after the ceremony. Add the fact that nominees are […] The post Posterized March 2026: _Dry Leaf_ , _Dead Lover_ , _Touch Me_ & More first appeared on The Film Stage.
06.03.2026 16:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New to Streaming: The Secret Agent, BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions, It Was Just an Accident, Videoheaven & More 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. BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (Kahlil Joseph) Celebrating and condensing centuries of Black history that would take more than a few lifetimes for any scholar to thoroughly ascertain in totality, […] The post New to Streaming: _The Secret Agent_ , _BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions_, _It Was Just an Accident_ , _Videoheaven_ & More first appeared on The Film Stage.
06.03.2026 11:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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NYC Weekend Watch: Late Autumn, Mulholland Dr, Magic & More NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Japan SocietyA 35mm print of Ozu’s Late Autumn screens on Friday. BAMTriple Canopy Presents: Magic features films by Orson Welles, Raúl Ruiz, Dario Argento, Maya Deren, and more. Film ForumSatyajit Ray’s Days and Nights in the Forest continues in a new restoration; Mouse Hunt shows on Sunday. Museum of the […] The post NYC Weekend Watch: _Late Autumn_ , _Mulholland Dr_ , Magic & More first appeared on The Film Stage.
05.03.2026 18:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Stranger Trailer: François Ozon’s Acclaimed Albert Camus Adaptation Arrives in April Following in the footsteps of Luchino Visconti, François Ozon has delivered a new update on the classic Albert Camus novel The Stranger. Delivering one of his most acclaimed films, the cast includes Benjamin Voisin, Rebecca Marder, Pierre Lottin, Denis Lavant, and Swann Arlaud. Ahead of the New York premiere this week at Film at Lincoln […] The post _The Stranger_ Trailer: François Ozon’s Acclaimed Albert Camus Adaptation Arrives in April first appeared on The Film Stage.
04.03.2026 18:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tony Leung and Léa Seydoux Tend to Nature in U.S. Trailer for Silent Friend, Arriving This May In quite the match-up, Ildikó Enyedi has brought together Tony Leung and Léa Seydoux for Silent Friend, which tells three stories connected to a tree over a period of more than 100 years. Following the film’s Venice and TIFF premieres, 1-2 Special will now give it a U.S. release beginning May 8 and the new trailer […] The post Tony Leung and Léa Seydoux Tend to Nature in U.S. Trailer for _Silent Friend_ , Arriving This May first appeared on The Film Stage.
04.03.2026 17:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Two Women Trailer: Charming Canadian Sex Comedy Arrives This April One of the more delightful Sundance premieres I saw last year was Canadian director Chloé Robichaud’s sex comedy Two Women, following two mothers who deal with unfulfilled desires in unique ways. Ahead of an April 24 release beginning at NYC’s Angelika, Joint Venture has now rolled out the new U.S. trailer for the Sundance jury winner […] The post _Two Women_ Trailer: Charming Canadian Sex Comedy Arrives This April first appeared on The Film Stage.
03.03.2026 20:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Read This: Hollywood’s Kings, the Fast Family, Tilda on Tilda, and the Life of John Williams It’s time for our first column of 2026, recommending the best in new filmmaking books, and there is no better way to begin than with a new book exploring the heyday of three iconic filmmakers. The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg — and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema by Paul […] The post Read This: Hollywood’s Kings, the _Fast_ Family, Tilda on Tilda, and the Life of John Williams first appeared on The Film Stage.
03.03.2026 16:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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10 Films to See in March The exhaustively extended awards season finally being over isn’t the only reason to celebrate this month. Led by my current frontrunner for the best film of 2026, there’s plenty of new releases to look forward to, also including a bold formal experiment, a controversial festival premiere, a journey into space, and much more. 10. undertone […] The post 10 Films to See in March first appeared on The Film Stage.
02.03.2026 15:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Werner Herzog on Dreams, Defeats, Ghost Elephants, and Why He’s Not a Workaholic Few subjects constitute a better benchmark than Werner Herzog, who quite literally needs no introduction and to whom I will, accordingly, not grant such. He is presenting his new film, Ghost Elephants, a documentary concerning South African naturalist Steve Boyse and his quest for a near-mythical species of elephant. (Our own appreciative review, from the […] The post Werner Herzog on Dreams, Defeats, _Ghost Elephants_ , and Why He’s Not a Workaholic first appeared on The Film Stage.
27.02.2026 16:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Dakota Johnson, Saoirse Ronan, Jessie Buckley & Josh O’Connor to Lead Alice Rohrwacher’s Three Incestuous Sisters Following up the wonderful Happy as Lazzaro and La Chimera, Alice Rohrwacher has assembled quite the ensemble for her next feature. Dakota Johnson, Saoirse Ronan, Jessie Buckley, and La Chimera star Josh O’Connor will lead the Italian director’s next film Three Incestuous Sisters. Based on The Time Traveler’s Wife author Audrey Niffenegger’s 2005 novel, the […] The post Dakota Johnson, Saoirse Ronan, Jessie Buckley & Josh O’Connor to Lead Alice Rohrwacher’s _Three Incestuous Sisters_ first appeared on The Film Stage.
27.02.2026 16:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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NYC Weekend Watch: The World of Black Film, Satyajit Ray, The Gambler & More NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMThe World of Black Film features Malcolm X, Daughters of the Dust, Set It Off, Black Orpheus, and more. Film ForumSatyajit Ray’s Days and Nights in the Forest begins playing in a new restoration; Snow White shows on Sunday. Film at Lincoln CenterA Raymond Depardon retrospective continues. Museum of […] The post NYC Weekend Watch: The World of Black Film, Satyajit Ray, _The Gambler_ & More first appeared on The Film Stage.
27.02.2026 16:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert Review: Baz Luhrmann’s Ecstatic Tribute to The King “Between 1969 and 1977, Elvis played 1,100 shows, sometimes 3 times a day.” The postscript of Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert—the extravagant, divisive Australian once-wunderkind’s first documentary, and hopefully not his last—says something essential about the late Elvis we witness afresh with new eyes and ears: the rock n’ roll legend gave everything […] The post _EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert_ Review: Baz Luhrmann’s Ecstatic Tribute to The King first appeared on The Film Stage.
27.02.2026 15:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The B-Sides of Anthony Hopkins with Brian Raftery Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we celebrate one of our great Welshmen: Anthony Hopkins! Our B-Sides include When Eight Bells Toll, Juggernaut, Spotswood, and Instinct. Our guest is the great Brian […] The post The B-Sides of Anthony Hopkins with Brian Raftery first appeared on The Film Stage.
27.02.2026 14:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New to Streaming: Father Mother Sister Brother, The Voice of Hind Rajab, Dead Man’s Wire & More 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. Arco (Ugo Bienvenu) With his debut feature, Arco, Ugo Bienvenu puts a unique, thought-provoking twist on the solarpunk genre. He gives us a glimpse of the sort of sustainable utopia […] The post New to Streaming: _Father Mother Sister Brother_ , _The Voice of Hind Rajab_ , _Dead Man’s Wire_ & More first appeared on The Film Stage.
27.02.2026 13:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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First Red Band Trailer for Daniel Goldhaber’s Faces of Death, Arriving in April Following one of 2022’s great breakthroughs, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, we’ve been curious to see what Daniel Goldhaber would direct next. He quickly embarked on a remake of the 1978 cult horror film Faces of Death. While it wrapped three years, with Barbie Ferreira, Dacre Montgomery, Josie Totah, Aaron Holliday, Jermaine Fowler, and […] The post First Red Band Trailer for Daniel Goldhaber’s _Faces of Death_ , Arriving in April first appeared on The Film Stage.
27.02.2026 13:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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First Trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers Starring Michaela Coel and Ian McKellen After two theatrical releases last year, the ever-prolific Steven Soderbergh is back this spring with The Christophers, which brings together Ian McKellen, Michaela Coel, James Corden, and Jessica Gunning. Following its premiere at TIFF last fall, NEON has picked up the dramedy for an April 10 release and now the first trailer has arrived. Here’s […] The post First Trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s _The Christophers_ Starring Michaela Coel and Ian McKellen first appeared on The Film Stage.
26.02.2026 17:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sofia Coppola Makes Documentary Debut In Trailer for Marc by Sofia Her films’ texture and intimacy can be so intense as to make one forget Sofia Coppola’s never delved into the documentary field. (Unless Bill Murray really spends his time singing at Bemelmans, in which case I stand corrected.) This perhaps lends logic to Marc by Sofia, her portrait of fashion mogul Marc Jacobs that premiered […] The post Sofia Coppola Makes Documentary Debut In Trailer for _Marc by Sofia_ first appeared on The Film Stage.
26.02.2026 14:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Performances of Steve Jobs Enjoying much-deserved appreciation for his formally bold return to the 28 Days Later franchise, Danny Boyle also had another reason to celebrate last year: the 10th anniversary of Steve Jobs, his Aaron Sorkin collaboration that found a unique structural conceit to explore three key periods in the complicated life of the late tech genius. In […] The post The Performances of _Steve Jobs_ first appeared on The Film Stage.
26.02.2026 14:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Trailer: Jane Schoenbrun Returns This Summer After Jane Schoenbrun’s haunting, astounding second feature I Saw the TV Glow topped our list of the best films of 2024, we’ve been counting down the days for the release of their follow-up. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, which stars Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson, has been set for an August 7, 2026 […] The post _Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma_ Trailer: Jane Schoenbrun Returns This Summer first appeared on The Film Stage.
25.02.2026 15:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Dry Leaf Trailer: Alexandre Koberidze Finds Beauty Through a 2008 Sony Ericsson Phone While filmmakers tout their usage of the latest and greatest technology through extensive aspect-ratio videos and infographics, leave it to one filmmaker to utilize a nearly two-decade-old phone to craft one of the most beautiful cinematic works of the year. Georgian director Alexandre Koberidze, returning after the wondrous Do We See When We Look At […] The post _Dry Leaf_ Trailer: Alexandre Koberidze Finds Beauty Through a 2008 Sony Ericsson Phone first appeared on The Film Stage.
25.02.2026 15:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Alison McAlpine In Conversation With Walter Murch on Her Oscar-Nominated Perfectly a Strangeness Nominated for Best Documentary Short Film at the 98th Academy Awards, perfectly a strangeness marks the first short from Canadian filmmaker Alison McAlpine, director of the wondrous 2017 feature Cielo. Ahead of a Criterion Channel debut on March 1 and the Oscars ceremony on March 15, we’re pleased to present an exclusive conversation between McAlpine […] The post Alison McAlpine In Conversation With Walter Murch on Her Oscar-Nominated _Perfectly a Strangeness_ first appeared on The Film Stage.
25.02.2026 15:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Berlinale Review: Foreign Travel is a Rousing Ode to the Transformative Powers of Reading No one moves abroad in Ted Fendt’s Foreign Travel; people walk plenty—mostly around Kreuzberg, Berlin—but the kind of wandering this erudite film is concerned with is chiefly of the mental variety. It is triggered by books, those of Italian writer Anna Maria Ortese, who rose to fame after her death but is yet to find […] The post Berlinale Review: _Foreign Travel_ is a Rousing Ode to the Transformative Powers of Reading first appeared on The Film Stage.
24.02.2026 15:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Berlinale Review: Yellow Letters Targets Authoritarianism with Timidity Shortly before the 2025 edition of the Berlinale, incoming festival head Tricia Tuttle was outspoken about filmmakers shunning the event over fears they would be censored out of political pressures. The 2024 edition ended with German politicians outright condemning the team behind the prize-winning No Other Land for “antisemitism”––culminating in a scene straight out of […] The post Berlinale Review: _Yellow Letters_ Targets Authoritarianism with Timidity first appeared on The Film Stage.
23.02.2026 17:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Berlinale Review: My Wife Cries Is Another Poetic Tapestry From Angela Schanelec Deep into the second week of another tumultuous (and freezing cold) year at the Berlin Film Festival, Angela Schanelec arrives with a welcome reminder of what summertime in the city feels like: a place where young people meet and chat and go for bike rides; a place where the uniform black and greys of winter […] The post Berlinale Review: _My Wife Cries_ Is Another Poetic Tapestry From Angela Schanelec first appeared on The Film Stage.
22.02.2026 21:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Berlinale Review: Home Stories Tells an Ambitious If Uneven Intergenerational Tale In Home Stories, a young woman from the town of Griez in East Germany is selected to compete on a TV talent show—an opportunity that will require her family to do a rare bit of self-reflection. The writer of this conceptually rich idea is Eva Trobish, among the lesser-known directors to emerge from the Berlin […] The post Berlinale Review: _Home Stories_ Tells an Ambitious If Uneven Intergenerational Tale first appeared on The Film Stage.
22.02.2026 21:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Berlinale Review: Trial of Hein Is a Rigorous Debut Feature Questioning Identity and Memory From Biblical tales of the prodigal son to Zach Braff’s Garden State, stories of returning home after an extended absence are ripe territory to explore reconciliation and changed identity. With his rigorous debut feature Trial of Hein, Kai Stänicke distills these ideas to their core essence, creating dramatically rich territory for his ensemble that also […] The post Berlinale Review: _Trial of Hein_ Is a Rigorous Debut Feature Questioning Identity and Memory first appeared on The Film Stage.
22.02.2026 21:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Revelations of Divine Love Trailer: Caroline Golum’s Acclaimed Medieval Tale Arrives This March Premiering to acclaim at the 2025 FIDMarseille, Caroline Golum’s second feature Revelations of Divine Love was acquired by Several Futures, who will give it a theatrical release beginning March 27 at NYC’s Anthology Film Archives. Ahead of the theatrical roll-out––which includes Nitehawk Prospect Park (April 5), Low Cinema (April 11), Roxy Cinema (April 17-April 19, April 24-April 26), Spectacle (April 24-26), and more cities to be announced––the first trailer […] The post _Revelations of Divine Love_ Trailer: Caroline Golum’s Acclaimed Medieval Tale Arrives This March first appeared on The Film Stage.
20.02.2026 22:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Berlinale Review: Crocodile is a Choppy Yet Inspiring Portrait of Resourceful Filmmaking The ever-increasing accessibility of filmmaking means that anyone with basic technology can shoot and edit a film. However, only those with a story worth telling can hope to reach an audience and build a sustainable career. Before they were even teenagers, a group of boys in northern Nigeria started making their own movies. Thirteen years […] The post Berlinale Review: _Crocodile_ is a Choppy Yet Inspiring Portrait of Resourceful Filmmaking first appeared on The Film Stage.
20.02.2026 18:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Berlinale Review: The Day She Returns Is One of Hong Sangsoo’s Most Elemental and Revelatory Gems Sooner or later, conversations around the ever-growing oeuvre of Hong Sangsoo all land on the same word: repetition. That’s kind of inevitable: few could ever dream of putting out new stuff at the Korean’s pace, his filmography—now spanning 34 features—expanding at the same speed with which his characters down their soju. Hence the almost forensic […] The post Berlinale Review: _The Day She Returns_ Is One of Hong Sangsoo’s Most Elemental and Revelatory Gems first appeared on The Film Stage.
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