Following The Film Stage's collective top 50 films of 2022, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.
Thre...
There are many films that start with a bang and many that climax at the end. There are fewer that wow with a deliberately calibrated, orgiastic halfway mark. T...
Turkish-German filmmaker Fatih Akin shot to international fame when his fourth feature Head-On won the Golden Bear at the 2004 Berlinale. Since then he’s compe...
Following The Film Stage's collective top 50 films of 2021, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.
Two ...
Chinese cinema is at a weird place. On the one hand, three of 2021's top five worldwide grossers are, as of writing, Chinese, so it’s doing more than okay on t...
Zhang Yimou has one of the more fascinating careers of any director. He became a pioneer figure of contemporary Chinese arthouse cinema in the late 1980s / ear...
There’s something about childhood memories that’s inherently sweet, hopeful—how we saw and remembered the world before we learned about loss and disappointment...
As we learned during the pandemic, some things take two shots to fully work. I saw Austrian director Sebastian Meise’s Great Freedom at Cannes this summer. A c...
In summer 2020, faced with the unenviable choice between canceling and going virtual—which was never really an option, given its longstanding anti-streaming st...
When Jane Fonda opened that envelope and called Bong Joon-ho and his team to the stage, we really should have known. The Oscars were not supposed to get it rig...
