3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (835+ words) The Film Stage Venice Review: May el-Toukhy’s Woman Unknown Bridges the Post-War Cinema of Petzold and Verhoeven The war has just ended and the summer has begun. It’s 1945 in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Nazi rule is no more. Hope abounds, but…...

3+ day, 20+ 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, 21+ 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, 9+ 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....

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (125+ words) The dark thought, the shame, the malice,meet them at the door laughing,and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes,because each has been sentas a guide from beyond. There’s the occasional quote worth ruminating on (“crave normalcy,…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (895+ words) The Film Stage Venice Review: Florian Zeller’s Bunker Is Bad Melodrama and Curiously Anti-Art The most interesting thing about Bunker is a moment of visual repetition. Early on, a husband and wife, Miguel (Javier Bardem) and Julia (Penélope Cruz), snicker…...

5+ day, 18+ 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…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (623+ words) The Film Stage Venice Review: Hirokazu Koreeda Delivers One of His Best Films with Look Back After a period marked by ambition and drift in his work since winning the Palme d’Or for Shoplifters in 2018, Hirokazu Koreeda has returned to…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago   (850+ words) The Film Stage Venice Review: Possible Love Marks a Triumphant Return for Lee Chang-dong In a year of unknown quantities at the Venice Film Festival, Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love has delivered the triumph for which fans of the elusive director…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (951+ words) The Film Stage Venice Review: Paul Schrader’s The Basics of Philosophy Is Too Inert to Catch Fire A lone man sits at his desk reflecting on existence. Paul Schrader’s is an idiosyncratic and nomadic oeuvre, but whether set in the…...