Dec 11, 2024 · As Martin Scorsese once said, "Music and cinema fit together naturally. Because there's a kind of intrinsic musicality to the way moving images work when they're put together. It's been said that cinema and music are very close as art forms, and I think that's true." The right piece of music––whether an original score or a

Dec 3, 2024 · One of the few benefits of the awards race is Hollywood’s outpouring of materials associated with the contenders. Perhaps the biggest perk is the release of full scripts one is able to download legally, directly from the studios. The first batch is now available and we’ll be updating this post as more arrive over the

Dec 15, 2023 · How common a narrative reduction! I wonder what would have happened if, in truly attempting to convey the limitations of a Maoist film practice while broadening the possibilities for a woman’s autonomy inside dogmatic images, Leuthy’s film had taken Godard and the Dziga Vertov Group to task for Letter to Jane (1972). An expertly-argued hit-piece of leftist-ish essay film, the piece asks ...

Dec 18, 2024 · MUBI has unveiled their first streaming lineup of the new year and they are kicking things off in a major way with the streaming debut of Víctor Erice’s masterpiece Close Your Eyes.Additional highlights include the first digital release of Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias’ Berlinale and NYFF selection Pepe, with the debuts of …

Ang Lee may be taking some time getting his next movie off the ground as his Bruce Lee biopic aims to finally start production this year, but first, one of his...

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Dec 4, 2024 · The fight for Palestinian livelihood, repatriation, the Argentine gaucho community, a pair of England's greatest directors, Chinese textile mills, a legendary artist's final performance, the frontlines of the war on Ukraine––just a few of the subjects and stories this year's documentaries brought us. With 2024 wrapping up, we've selected the …

Nov 18, 2024 · The Criterion Collection has unveiled its February 2025 lineup, featuring 4K UHD upgrades for Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love and Guillermo del Toro's Cronos. Also among the lineup is one of the great rom-coms, Joan Micklin Silver’s Crossing Delancey, alongside Gus Van Sant’s second feature Drugstore Cowboy. Jean-Luc Godard’s first English-language feature King Lear and

Rounding up the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, as voted on by hundreds of film executives, The Black List has been a strong resource to clue one in on projects to potentially anticipate, but first, to kickstart Hollywood on bringing them to screen. Today we have this year's edition, as voted on by more than

Dec 12, 2024 · For our most comprehensive year-end feature, we’re providing a cumulative look at The Film Stage’s favorite films of 2024. We’ve asked contributors to compile ten-best lists with five honorable mentions––many of those personal selections will be shared in coming weeks in separate features––and from tallied votes has this top 50 been assembled. Without further ado,