A film squarely in the wheelhouse of co-writer and director John Carney, Power Ballad plays the hits with a few heartfelt ...

Speaking with Christian Petzold last fall, the German auteur told us he was developing two films: one being a crime story for ...

Unless you're considering his perfect parodies in Clouds of Sils Maria and 2022's Irma Vep, the words "Olivier Assayas" and "franchise cinema" don't quite gel. If he were to make a late-in-life pivot, ...

One of the most substantial restorations of the year is for Maurice Pialat's seven-part epic La maison des bois (The House in ...

I’ve done interviews in many settings: multiplexes, screening rooms, green rooms, distributor offices, post houses, cafés, hotels—many hotels—or whatever space could be found then and there. (A ...

Usually taking more than a few years between films as of late, we've been waiting to hear what Nuri Bilge Ceylan would be up ...

If on sabbatical, return with the undeniable. Such was the thinking in programming films by two masters to mark the return of my screening series Amnesiascope, which is henceforth stationed just off ...

Take one step into the world of festivals and you’ll understand that making a movie isn’t just “making a movie.” Even if one has the fortune to get some money for the script they’ve slaved over, get ...

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. Anniversary (Jan Komasa) ...

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we usually talk about movie stars and not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones they made in between. Today, however, we ...

Taking one of the longest breaks of his career, it's been four years since Steven Spielberg's last feature, The Fabelmans, but he's thankfully returning this summer. Going back to the realm of ...