The Film Stage

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The Film StageCinemaDiscover an Underappreciated Jazz Legend in Exclusive Trailer for …And Damn He Could Play He may not be a household name when it comes to the world of jazz, but the influence of Marcus Belgrave is felt far and wide, playing with Ray Charles, Charles Mingus, the Funk Brothers, and more.

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The Film StageCinema“English Is the Key”: Takeo Hisamatsu on Opening Japanese Cinema to the World During the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival There is nary a time and place without financial concerns, but it’s well within the needs of any public-facing institution to maintain the image of strong, steady organization.

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The Film StageCinemaThe Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters Looking for what to see in theaters? Our feature, updated weekly, highlights our top recommendations for films currently in theaters, from new releases to restorations receiving a proper theatrical…

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The Film StageCinemaClub Kid Review: A Bittersweet, Tremendously Moving Debut Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 Cannes coverage. The film arrives in theaters on November 6. It’s never wise to assume anything.

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The Film StageCinemaGodzilla Minus Zero Review: Sequel Serves Monster and Man at Incredible Scale Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 NYFF coverage. The film arrives in theaters on November 6. Blockbuster films in America often have faceless, nameless enemies.

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The Film StageCinemaI Play Rocky Review: A Crowdpleasing Winner Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 TIFF coverage. The film arrives in theaters on November 6.

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The Film StageCinemaExclusive Trailer for Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley’s Room Temperature Finds a Family Haunted A favorite on the festival circuit since its premiere last year, Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley’s Room Temperature is finally getting a release this month from Altered Innocence.

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The Film StageCinemaPosterized November 2026: Bitter Christmas, Club Kid, Mouse & More The Hunger Games. Rocky Balboa. Godzilla. Ebenezer Scrooge. Cliff Booth? November is chock full of IP hoping to secure massive Thanksgiving holiday receipts at the box office, but don’t let those…

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The Film StageCinemaA. Rimbaud Review: Patrick Wang’s One-Man Biopic Is Wildly Esoteric If you’re not familiar with 19th-century French poet Arthur Rimbaud, writer-director Patrick Wang wants you to be. In his fourth feature in fifteen years, A.

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The Film StageCinemaTender Loving Care Trailer: Mike Leigh’s Final Feature Arrives This December As moving a final film as one can hope for, Mike Leigh caps off an astounding career with Tender Loving Care after the director, faced with the muscular condition myositis, announced it is likely his…

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The Film StageCinemaWild Horse Nine Review: A Ruthless CIA Spoof with Shades of Memento and SpongeBob SquarePants Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 Venice coverage. The film arrives in theaters on November 6.

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The Film StageCinemaMouse Review: Earnest Drama Offers a Tender Companion After Loss Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 Berlinale coverage. The film arrives in theaters on November 6.

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo