7+ hour, 30+ min ago   (831+ words) TIFF Review: The Daughters of Abraham Entrallingly Captures a Reunion Between Estranged Friends The Film Stage TIFF Review: The Daughters of Abraham Enthrallingly Captures a Reunion Between Estranged Friends While visiting family in Marrakesh for the summer, Myriam Achour (Mélissa…...

17+ hour, 40+ min ago   (511+ words) The Film Stage TIFF Review: Anna Biller’s The Face of Horror Honors the Cinematic Past with a Fresh Perspective There’s a longstanding rumor about former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich: in 1980, he allegedly served his ex-wife with divorce papers…...

22+ hour, 49+ min ago   (679+ words) The Film Stage TIFF Review: I Play Rocky Is a Crowdpleasing Winner Does every die-hard fan of Rocky, Sylvester Stallone’s zeitgeist-capturing, Oscar-winning, sequel-spawning classic, know the backstory of Rocky? There is a very good chance that answer is yes, as…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (271+ words) The Film Stage Schey’s writing in this first stretch is nearly note-perfect—admirable cutting, sometimes uproarious, rooted in truths that nearly every audience member will recognize (in others and perhaps even themselves). And in Egerton, Everybody has an ideal foil....

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (313+ words) The Film Stage All of a Sudden Trailer: Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Latest Masterpiece Opens This November There may be no living filmmaker on a better run than Ryusuke Hamaguchi. With Happy Hour, Asako I & II, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, Drive…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (541+ words) The Film Stage Venice Review: The Color of the Sun Finds Sayombhu Mukdeeprom Elevating a Prototypical Coming-of-Age Story It’s been a year since Kamei Yara’s dad disappeared. The 16-year-old who lives on Okinawa’s main island has been a bit of…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (237+ words) The Film Stage Fatherland Trailer: Sandra Hüller Tours Europe in Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cannes Winner Following Ida and Cold War, Paweł Pawlikowski returned to Cannes with Fatherland, a drama starring Sandra Hüller and Hanns Zischler, and which earned him a Best…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (389+ words) The Film Stage U.S. Trailer for Pedro Almodóvar’s Bitter Christmas Presents a Tale of Autofiction After premiering in Spain and then coming to Cannes Film Festival, Pedro Almodóvar’s latest feature Bitter Christmas will finally be coming to North America this fall....

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (839+ words) The Film Stage Venice Review: With Union Town, Barbara Kopple Expertly Completes Her Labor-Rights Trilogy Coal miners from Kentucky traveled to New York City months into their 1973 strike to increase their struggle’s profile. As documented by Barbara Kopple in Harlan…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (178+ words) The Film Stage Love Is Not What It Seems In First Teaser for M. Night Shyamalan’s Remain Starring Jake Gyllenhaal Back not a moment too soon (and off one of his best films), M. Night Shyamalan has directed Remain, a VistaVision-shot…...