Dan Mecca
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Filmmaker in Pittsburgh. Co-Founder of The Film Stage. Co-Host of
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The Film Stage
1 day ago
"We are pursuing dreams, but would it be better if we never fulfilled the dream?" In a new interview, Werner Herzog talks to Nick Newman about his latest film and working methods:
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Werner Herzog on Dreams, Defeats, Ghost Elephants, and Why He’s Not a Workaholic
Few subjects constitute a better benchmark than Werner Herzog, who quite literally needs no introduction and to whom I will, accordingly, not grant such. He is presenting his new film, Ghost Elephants...
https://thefilmstage.com/werner-herzog-on-dreams-defeats-ghost-elephants-and-why-hes-not-a-workaholic/
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So much good stuff in here. Plus some earnest appreciation for THE EDGE.
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The Film Stage
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#Dreams
, opening Friday, offers Michel Franco's most masterful statement yet on complex power dynamics. Read
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The Film Stage
3 days ago
The first trailer for Steven Soderbergh's
#TheChristophers
has arrived ahead of an April release. Watch:
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The Film Stage
3 days ago
The first book dedicated to Danny Boyle's
#SteveJobs
has been published and we're pleased to exclusively premiere an essay. Read Sarah Jae Leiber in praise of the performances of the ensemble, from STEVE JOBS MONOGRAPH, edited by
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The Performances of Steve Jobs
Enjoying much-deserved appreciation for his formally bold return to the 28 Days Later franchise, Danny Boyle also had another reason to celebrate last year: the 10th anniversary of Steve Jobs, his Aar...
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The Film Stage
3 days ago
Park Chan-wook will be president of the Cannes Film Festival jury, marking the first South Korean president in the history of the festival. The festival runs from May 12-23.
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The Film Stage
4 days ago
Shot entirely on a 2008 Sony Ericsson phone, Alexandre Koberidze's
#DryLeaf
is one of the most beautiful movies of the year. Watch the new trailer ahead of a March 20 release:
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Dry Leaf Trailer: Alexandre Koberidze Finds Beauty Through a 2008 Sony Ericsson Phone
While filmmakers tout their usage of the latest and greatest technology through extensive aspect-ratio videos and infographics, leave it to one filmmaker to utilize a nearly two-decade-old phone to cr...
https://thefilmstage.com/dry-leaf-trailer-alexandre-koberidze-finds-beauty-through-a-vintage-sony-ericsson-phone/
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The Film Stage
4 days ago
I Saw the TV Glow director Jane Schoenbrun is back with the first trailer for Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.
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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Trailer: Jane Schoenbrun Returns This Summer
After Jane Schoenbrun's haunting, astounding second feature I Saw the TV Glow topped our list of the best films of 2024, we've been counting down the days for the release of their follow-up. Teenage S...
https://thefilmstage.com/teenage-sex-and-death-at-camp-miasma-teaser-jane-schoenbrun-returns-this-summer/
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Letterboxd
4 days ago
As The Revenant heads back into theaters with a stunning IMAX re-release, Alejandro González Iñárritu and Leonardo DiCaprio speak with Brian Formo about the arduous, constantly inventive journey to get their Oscar-winning film made.
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The Film Stage
4 days ago
Sundance Film Festival has set its dates for its inaugural Boulder edition: January 21–31, 2027. Read our complete coverage from this year's festival:
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Letterboxd
7 days ago
Four Favorites with Weapons stars Amy Madigan and Cary Christopher 🎥
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Letterboxd
7 days ago
Our picks of under-the-radar gems from this month’s new releases. This edition includes a diva’s downfall, an unconventional body-swap, a DIY occult horror, Wanda Sykes’s first dramatic role and more.
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Watchlist This!: our February 2026 picks of the best new bubbling-under films • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
Our picks of under-the-radar gems from this month’s new releases. This edition includes a diva’s downfall, an unconventional body-swap, a DIY occult horror, Wanda Sykes’s first dramatic role and more.
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Michael Ian Black
8 days ago
People broke this story? The magazine that regularly features Miss Piggy on the cover? GET READY TO ACCEPT YOUR PULITZER, PEOPLE MAGAZINE!!!
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Jeffrey Epstein Was Vladimir Putin's Wealth Manager, FBI Source Claimed in Newly Released Epstein Files
Jeffrey Epstein managed money for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, among other powerful world leaders, one confidential source claimed in FBI testimony
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Letterboxd
8 days ago
Four Favorites with Alan Cumming, this year’s EE BAFTA Film Awards host ❤️
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8 days ago
RT if you think CENTER STAGE (2000) counts as a millennial cult classic
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Joaquin Castro
8 days ago
An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.
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Letterboxd
8 days ago
What’s your favorite comfort watch? 🧸 Anya Taylor-Joy, Kerry Washington, Jon Hamm, John Cena, Tatiana Maslany, Anna Sawai, Jessica Williams, Judy Greer and more stars from Apple TV share their comfort watches. Watch the interview on our YouTube:
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Comfort Watches with Jennifer Garner, James Marsden, Kerry Washington, Jon Hamm, John Cena and More
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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DINNER RUSH well worth your time! Give it a watch!
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The Film Stage
10 days ago
We're pleased to premiere the poster for Christian Petzold's masterful new film Miroirs No. 3, which opens next month. Learn more:
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The Film Stage
11 days ago
In his first film in nearly two decades, Lance Hammer sets Tom Courtenay and Juliette Binoche with a thorny moral dilemma. Read our Berlinale review of
#QueenatSea
by
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Berlinale Review: Queen at Sea Sets Tom Courtenay and Juliette Binoche with a Thorny Moral Dilemma
Eleven years ago, Tom Courtenay arrived at the Berlinale with Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years, an exquisitely observed study of emotional dilemma in which the British actor played a doddery romantic whose sel...
https://thefilmstage.com/berlinale-review-queen-at-sea-sets-tom-courtenay-and-juliette-binoche-with-a-thorny-moral-dilemma/
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Mark Harris
12 days ago
Worth watching every minute of this--and check out the followup post as well.
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Joe Reid
12 days ago
New podcast episode on the better-than-I-remember-it "Amsterdam"! Friendship cinema and antifascism! Manic pixie expatriates! Taylor Swift roadkill, Where'd Chivo Go, and a Bobby De Niro six-timers quiz!
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Scout Tafoya
12 days ago
Rest in peace, giant
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Peter Labuza
12 days ago
Frederick Wiseman was perhaps the best chronicler of Modern America in any medium, full stop. RIP.
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Absolute legend and one of the best to ever do it. Rest in Peace.
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13 days ago
I watched (and ranked) every single adaptation of WUTHERING HEIGHTS I could get my hands on.
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
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The 32 Best (and Worst) Wuthering Heights Adaptations
Is there another novel that crosses borders and eras as smoothly as Emily Brontë’s 1847 classic does?
https://www.vulture.com/article/the-32-best-and-worst-wuthering-heights-adaptations.html
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The Film Stage
12 days ago
The Berlinale premiere Tristan Forever finds melancholy in capturing a jaded doctor's search for purpose. Read
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Berlinale Review: Tristan Forever Highlights a Jaded Doctor’s Search for Purpose
There's a melancholy to Tobias Nölle and Loran Bonnardot's Tristan Forever that is comforting. A lingering, existential question hangs over everything: where does one belong? In the film, a Parisian d...
https://thefilmstage.com/berlinale-review-tristan-forever-highlights-a-jaded-doctors-search-for-purpose/
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The Film Stage
12 days ago
RIP Robert Duvall (1931—2026)
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Marcus B. McAllister
14 days ago
I understand why a lot of people/trades are saying Fire and Ash underperformed. I do. Counterpoint: it’s still the 18th highest grossing film OF ALL TIME. Might take Barbie for 17th. As theater-going continues to decline, I’d say that’s a hell of a run for an “underperforming” sequel.
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Chris Murphy
14 days ago
This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.
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For all the dads 🙏
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This weekend at the movies gives me hope 🙏
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The Film Stage
17 days ago
Gore Verbinski's Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die delivers a thrilling chase with a dark, satirical lens on humanity’s obsession with technology. Read
@ericvespe.bsky.social
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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die Review: Gore Verbinski Finally Returns with Refreshingly Madcap Adventure
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Fantastic Fest coverage. The film opens in theaters on February 13. I didn’t realize just how much I missed Gore Verbinski until I was in...
https://thefilmstage.com/good-luck-have-fun-dont-die-review-gore-verbinski-finally-returns-with-refreshingly-madcap-adventure/
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Letterboxd
15 days ago
For Valentine’s Day, the Letterboxd crew pours our hearts into highlighting 23 underseen romance films that could use a little more tender love and care (in the form of additions to your watchlists).
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15 days ago
I will always write about Massy Tadjedin’s LAST NIGHT (2010) given the chance. a perfect film.
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For
@letterboxd.social
’s underseen romances I wrote about Theodore Witcher’s LOVE JONES. Read:
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I got to write about POSSESSION, the first Focus movie and a real Gwyneth classic! Academic romance thrillers let’s goooo!
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The Film Stage
15 days ago
"We shoot so, so much footage, but the real discipline is that we then cut 95% of it out." Matt Johnson talks with
@jpraup.bsky.social
about setting the bar for action and comedy this year wiht Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie:
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“We Cut 95% of It Out”: Matt Johnson on Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, Constant Re-Editing, and Season 3
From its humble beginnings as a scrappy viral web series nearly two decades ago, Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol's Groundhog Day-esque mission of attempting to book a show at Toronto's Rivoli Theatre ha...
https://thefilmstage.com/matt-johnson-on-nirvanna-the-band-the-show-the-movie-reshoots-re-edits-and-season-3/
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Anthony Hopkins’ autobiography is beautifully read by Kenneth Branagh, but the undeniable highlight is the Appendix, wherein Hopkins reads poetry. Lovely and sad.
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“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”
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The Film Stage
16 days ago
Jane Schoenbrun's Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is arriving this August. See the first stills and teasers:
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First Look at Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Set for August Release
After Jane Schoenbrun's haunting, astounding second feature I Saw the TV Glow topped our list of the best films of 2024, we've been counting down the days for the release of their follow-up. Teenage S...
https://thefilmstage.com/first-look-at-jane-schoenbruns-teenage-sex-and-death-at-camp-miasma-set-for-august-release/
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The Film Stage
16 days ago
A Diane Keaton tribute with films by Woody Allen, Warren Beatty, and Francis Ford Coppola on 35mm, and more to see in NYC this weekend.
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NYC Weekend Watch: Diane Keaton, The Brown Bunny, 2001 In Cinema & More
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterA Diane Keaton tribute features films by Woody Allen, Warren Beatty, and Francis Ford Coppola on 35mm. Roxy Cinem...
https://thefilmstage.com/nyc-weekend-watch-diane-keaton-the-brown-bunny-2001-in-cinema-more/
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CRIME 101 - it’s interesting that John Frankenheimer isn’t more revered. Everybody’s trying to make John Frankenheimer movies. Bart Layton does a good enough job here.
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The Film Stage
16 days ago
Marty Supreme and Is This Thing On? on digital, Happyend on Criterion Channel, and more streaming picks of the week.
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New to Streaming: Marty Supreme, Is This Thing On?, The Librarians, Happyend & More
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. Eternity (David Freyne) Ho...
https://thefilmstage.com/new-to-streaming-marty-supreme-is-this-thing-on-the-librarians-happyend-more/
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The Film Stage
16 days ago
Legendary director Haile Gerima is returning with Black Lions – Roman Wolves, an epic project three decades in the making. Watch our exclusive trailer debut ahead of a Berlinale premiere:
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Legendary Director Haile Gerima Returns in Exclusive Trailer for Black Lions – Roman Wolves, Premiering at Berlinale
Ethiopian director Haile Gerima, a guiding figure in the L.A. Rebellion movement with such films as Bush Mama and Ashes and Embers, is returning with his first work in nearly two decades, one that was...
https://thefilmstage.com/legendary-director-haile-gerima-returns-in-exclusive-trailer-for-black-lions-roman-wolves-premiering-at-berlinale/
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NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE is so so good So is GOOD LUCK HAVE FUN DON’T DIE CRIME 101 is a star-studded heist flick A new Margot Robbie picture Good weekend at the movies folks!!!
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The Film Stage
16 days ago
The best movies now playing in theaters:
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The Film Stage
17 days ago
RIP James Van Der Beek (1977—2026)
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The Film Stage
18 days ago
John Magaro takes a heartbreaking road trip in the first trailer for
#Omaha
, arriving this April. Watch:
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Steve G
18 days ago
Rewatching The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. I'd forgotten how funny it is but not that it's one of the greatest films ever made.
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