Closing out our year-end coverage is individual top ten lists from a variety of The Film Stage contributors, leading up to a cumulative best-of rundown. Make ...
Over the course of more than thirty years, Abel Ferrara’s films have shocked and challenged audiences with their uncompromisingly personal vision of death, fami...
His Twitter account would indicate a man who, sadly, has retreated into a world of receiving royalty checks for remakes, watching basketball, and playing vi...
In a film festival climate which often seeks to grab attention through comparison -- "it’s this year’s that," or, just as often, "it’s this meets that" -- we, o...
It can be said that emerging writer-director Ti West sets a certain expectation, making what some consider to be "anti-horror" films. There's been the '80s feti...
Returning behind the camera after six years of acting, producing, and becoming some kind of public personality, Eli Roth has attained a grand reputation with re...
Billowing curtains, industrial decay, skylines shot in the bright of day that still manage to be ominous -- all the visual trademarks of celebrated genre direct...
To say Southcliffe gets off on the wrong foot would be to realize that beyond the seemingly well-orchestrated images in its opening minutes, there already lies ...
With a film career that includes memorable supporting turns in 80’s blockbusters like Scrooged and the Police Academy franchise, writing and directing dutie...
Known for being one of the forefathers of the mumblecore movement in American independent cinema, as well as a distinctly prolific nature (having completed ...
