Following up her reframed remake of Black Christmas, Sophia Takal’s Act One, is a polarizing work taking place in the shadows of Anytown, USA (though largely filmed in and near Takal’s hometown of Montclair, NJ). Set in the era of AOL Instant Messenger—before social media and influencers polluted the minds of teens—Act One is a psychosexual thriller with […]
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We’re delighted to exclusively announce that Altered Innocence has acquired North American rights to Virgina (Virdžina), the acclaimed 1991 feature from celebrated Serbian filmmaker Srđan Karanović. The newly restored film will make its World Restoration Premiere at the Frameline LGBTQ+ Film Festival. Completed in June 1991 as Yugoslavia descended into war, Virgina was effectively lost […]
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Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. Blue Film (Elliot Tuttle) “Provocation” has become watered-down in recent times. All it takes to provoke someone is tossing off a bunch of half-assed offensive statements or aiming your […]
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How many times has the story of Robin Hood been told? How many books have been written, how many movies made about the outlaw? With The Death of Robin Hood, writer-director Michael Sarnoski goes back to the source. Rather, the supposed sources. The earliest stories of Robin Hood were ballads told by commoners across England. […]
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If 2026 was, probably, not a banner year for Sundance—nor the ideal send-off to Park City, but let’s not get into that now—the best titles still made a fine impression. Standing among our favorites was Georgia Bernstein’s feature debut Night Nurse, which fused erotic tension with appreciably obscure character work—a film, one might say, that […]
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Though among the great films of its time, proof-positive of the Italian studio system’s genius, and a peak for both director Luchino Visconti and star Marcello Mastroianni, White Nights has never quite occupied the canonical position it so severely deserves. With Visconti’s take on Dostoevsky’s short story of the same name (later interpreted to exemplary […]
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Here I’m Alive, Joshua Z. Weinstein’s follow-up to his 2017 breakout Menashe, is an intimate and claustrophobic mosaic of New York City life, a film that is both challenging and subtly rewarding. Embracing a micro-budget aesthetic that recalls Sean Baker’s early works Take Out and Prince of Broadway, it also utilizes the minimal sound design and narrative restraint of Amir […]
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Fantasia coverage. The film arrives on Netflix on June 12. More than the similarly mythologized Monsters, Inc., the first stop-motion feature produced in Mexico (courtesy of the Cinema Fantasma studio) recalls an old childhood favorite from the ’80s: Little Monsters. Just like that Fred […]
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In a political climate as antagonistic toward immigrants as any I can recall, deeply personal stories like Karla Murthy’s The Gas Station Attendant remind us of the hardship and passion required to make it in the United States. One would hope these films are treated as stories of survival rather than stories of exceptionalism. The framing device […]
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With filmmakers from around the world descending on Manhattan as the 25th anniversary of the Tribeca Festival kicks off, we’re thrilled to announce that The Film Stage will be sharing exclusive photos of directors, stars, and crew as they premiere their latest work. As captured by photographer Daniel Dickerman, our gallery includes Lilly Wachowski, Martin […]
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