2+ day, 23+ 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, 2+ 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, 3+ 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, 20+ 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…...

6+ day, 22+ 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, 49+ min 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…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1236+ words) thefilmstage.com Venice Review: Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime Is a Thrilling Indictment Robert Pattinson was born to play Chris Hansen. In the opening shot of Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime—the documentary savant’s first foray into fiction, this one based on a true…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (328+ words) The Film Stage A New Tsui Hark Series and Theatrical Run Puts a Hong Kong Legend In Focus Tsui Hark’s cinema is perhaps too much to ever be completely and fully embraced by American audiences. The films (an exact history…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1011+ words) Ten years ago, Train to Busan pitted passengers against zombies on high-speed rails. Driven by a canny script and propulsive editing, Yeon Sang-ho’s film became a worldwide hit. In Yeon’s latest, Colony, an experimental serum unleashes hordes of zombies into…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (305+ words) The Film Stage Exclusive Trailer for Augusto Zegarra’s Acclaimed Documentary Runa Simi Celebrates a Peruvian Sensation The acclaimed Peruvian documentary Runa Simi, the feature directorial debut of Augusto Zegarra and executive produced by Dominique Bravo, Ellen Schneider, Benjamin & Peter Bratt,…...