A standout among feature-length directorial debuts this year, David Depesseville's Astrakan is one of the most piercing, enigmatic coming-of-age stories, provi...
Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that the...
Claire Simon cites Frederick Wiseman’s Hospital (1970) and Near Death (1989) as key inspirations for her latest film, and for much of its 168-minute runtime Ou...
Emerging as one of the most accomplished Japanese directors of the last decade, Harmonium and A Girl Missing director Kōji Fukada is back with his next feature...
After Rory O'Connor reviewed Kamila Andini's Before, Now & Then some 18 months ago at Berlinale, where it picked up the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Per...
Odds are low we'll watch Roman Polanski's The Palace through strictly legal means in the United States, those of us who maintain interest instead waiting for T...
A highlight at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year Babak Jalali’s Jarmuschian tale of assimilation and identity, Fremont, is now gearing up for a release ...
Tomas (Franz Rogowski) seems to have it all: a career as a director, marriage to Martin (Ben Whishaw), and the freedom to pursue his desires as he wishes. In P...
While How to with John Wilson is closing out its brilliant, three-season run, its creator has boarded a new project that shares his passion for looking at the ...
Four teenage boys run through the streets of New York City. They go to their local bodega, pick up pizzas, watch a movie in the park, and head back home later ...