The Film Stage

The Best Cinematography of 2016

"A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist -- moving an audience through a movie [...] making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark." - Gordon Willis...

The Best Undistributed Films of 2016

Ten films from this year without a home in the US that deserve to be on your radar, and are hopefully already on the minds of some distributors....

The Best Documentaries of 2016

The struggle for racial equality in America, the careers of cinematographers, directors, and photographers, the immigration crisis, music as celebration and grief, and strange conspiracies -- these were just a few of the places and stories this year's documentary offerings brought us. ...