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Sian Heder’s Oscar winner CODA felt like a movie out of time. It was the kind of broad crowd-pleaser that Miramax would have released to awards success a couple of decades earlier, which I would argue only triumphed with the Academy as voters were quietly nostalgic for the kind of American indie that disappeared alongside the Weinsteins. It certainly didn’t hold up ...

Andrew Haigh returned this fall with another tender drama, this time adapting a Colm Tóibín story with a cast including Fred Hechinger, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Caitríona Balfe, Kit Connor and D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai. A Long Winter, which recently played at New York Film Festival, will be coming to U.S. theaters on January 22, 2027 with select screenings in New York startin...

One of the most spiritually transporting experiences I had at the New York Film Festival this year was the world premiere of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall on 35mm. Shot with a vision at once affectionately timeless and fittingly playful, it’s truly something to behold how the One Battle After Another director frames Winter’s passion...

Welcome to The Film Stage Presents! Today we’re speaking with Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Daniel Kraus about his novel

Following her studio blockbuster Barbie, Greta Gerwig hopped over to Netflix to direct an adaptation of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew, which will get quite the lengthy theatrical run, kicking off in IMAX and global theaters on February 12, 2027, followed by a Netflix debut on April 2, 2027––a longer theatrical window than some legacy studios manage before d...