The Best Scores & Soundtracks of 2024
2024年12月11日 · 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
The 100 Most-Anticipated Films of 2025: Part Two
2024年12月19日 · Following part one of our 2025 movie preview, we’re counting down our 50 most-anticipated films of the year.. 50. 28 Years Later (Danny Boyle; June 20) . It’s a shame the 28 Later (?) franchise lost its shaky, grainy video-camera aesthetic that defined the mood and feel of the first entry, 28 Days Later.But it’s a godsend that they’ve brought back Alex Garland and Danny Boyle, the ...
The Best Documentaries of 2024
2024年12月4日 · 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, …
A Mother-Stepson Relationship Forms In English-Subtitled Teaser …
2023年8月30日 · Playing at Cannes to nice notices and perhaps little else––no awards, alas!––Catherine Breillat’s Last Summer nevertheless yields interest above much competition brethren. Her first feature since 2013’s Abuse of Weakness (which I just found myself pulverized by courtesy Criterion) remakes 2019’s Queen of Hearts with what has been described as Breillat-like zeal: sex in all its ...
The Film Stage’s Top 50 Films of 2024
2024年12月12日 · 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,
The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters - The Film Stage
2025年1月16日 · Watch an exclusive clip above. Italy’s Oscar entry Vermiglio, about the trials and tribulations of a family living in a small mountain community during wartime, is one of the most starkly beautiful films of the year.Lucia Ahrensdorf said in her AFI Fest review, “Vermiglio is set in the eponymous alpine village during the waning days of WWII. . …
15 Films to See in December
As 2024 comes to a close, much of the month will be dedicated to wrapping up the year in cinema with a plethora of year-end features (bookmark here for those), but let’s take a deeper look at the December line-up.Featuring some of the most-praised films of the year, including my favorite shortest and longest works, and much more, it’s a great time for holiday movie-going.
Endless Summer Syndrome Review: An Incest Drama With Depth
2024年12月15日 · The film is distributed here in the U.S. by Altered Innocence, a label focusing on coming-of-age tales queer in both senses of the word; this year saw a breakout success of The People’s Joker.Endless Summer Syndrome is a savvy acquisition for them, fitting neatly alongside their recent François Ozon box set.. This is an unusual case of the choice in distributor proving a slight spoiler, but ...
All We Imagine as Light Leads Sight and Sound’s Top 50 Films of …
2024年12月6日 · In a week full of a few embarrassing selections included in the likes of National Board of Review and AFI's picks for the top films of 2024, leave it to BFI's Sight and Sound to deliver a top 10 films of the year worth paying attention to. …
The 30 Best 2025 Films We’ve Already Seen
2024年12月19日 · We don’t want to overwhelm you, but while you’re catching up with our top 50 films of 2024, more cinematic greatness awaits in 2025. Ahead of our 100 most-anticipated films (all of which have yet to premiere), we’re highlighting 30 titles from this year’s festival circuit that have either confirmed 2025 release dates or await a debut date from its distributor.