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Jan 15, 2025 | 
thefilmstage.com | Johnnie To |Tsui Hark |Nick Newman
Criterion’s starts 2025 with 4K on the mind: today brings news that April will bring Sean Baker’s Anora and a Blu-ray of Prince of Broadway alongside releases for Julian Schnabel’s Basquiat (both theatrical and black-and-white director’s cut), Some Like It Hot, and two films by Claude Berri, Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
thefilmstage.com | Johnnie To |Tsui Hark |Luke Hicks
“In early 1995, a hiker went missing in the remote mountains of central Oregon,” reads the prologue over a gorgeous opening shot: a still, wide frame looking down at a farm surrounded by dense forest and looming mountains, dark clouds hanging overhead. The mythology of the film appears in four different text sections over the landscape composition, each one getting us a little closer to our subject: Wolf Man.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
thefilmstage.com | Johnnie To |Tsui Hark |Alistair Ryder
The most striking thing about Audrey Diwan’s reinterpretation of Emmanuelle––the infamous novel-turned-softcore franchise from fabulously named director Just Jaeckin––is that the original dramatic beats largely remain intact.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
thefilmstage.com | Johnnie To |Tsui Hark |Jose Solis
Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. By the time this list is published, I will be an official inhabitant of Lyon, France, the fourth different city in the fourth different country I’ve lived in over the past four years. While packing my apartment in Madrid, I found myself playing comfort movies, rather than music, as background accompaniment.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
thefilmstage.com | Johnnie To |Tsui Hark |Nick Newman
It’s nice when promises are kept, nicer yet when those promises are a new Claire Denis movie shooting in a matter of months. Following September’s report that she’d roll cameras on Le Cri des Gardes (The Cry of the Guards) in January, Deadline informs us the previously involved Riley Keough has been swapped for Mia McKenna-Bruce (How to Have Sex) as the project rolls cameras as soon as next week.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
thefilmstage.com | Johnnie To |Tsui Hark |Leonard Pearce
After making waves this holiday season with the wildly thrilling Carry-On, marking one of Netflix’s most-watched movies ever, Jaume Collet-Serra is back with two features in 2025. Before his Cliffhanger reboot later this year, he’s returning to his first full-blown horror feature since his 2009 breakout Orphan. The Woman in the Yard, which reteams him with Danielle Deadwyler, is arriving on March 28 in theaters and now the first trailer has arrived from Blumhouse and Universal Pictures.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
thefilmstage.com | Johnnie To |Tsui Hark |Leonard Pearce
Much of Australian cinema lives in the shadow of Peter Weir, and perhaps nothing of his own looms larger than Picnic at Hanging Rock. I’m sure the film is quite beautiful, but––having only seen it on a less-than-ideal DVD––its power has long been subdued. Which makes particularly necessary a new 4K restoration which Janus is beginning to roll out ahead of an inevitable Criterion upgrade.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
thefilmstage.com | Johnnie To |Tsui Hark |Luke Hicks
With only two features under his belt, British musician Daniel Blumberg has already cemented his name in film history. After debuting scoring abilities on 2020’s The World to Come, the composer extraordinaire is back four years later with a monumental sophomore effort––one that reflects the work of a vetted master.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
thefilmstage.com | Johnnie To |Tsui Hark |Luke Hicks
Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
thefilmstage.com | Johnnie To |Tsui Hark |Nick Newman
What is quite obviously the best film news of 2025 thus far (and will be tough to beat in the foreseeable future) comes via Variety, who tell us Shout! Studios have acquired worldwide rights (minus certain Asian territories) to 156 films owned by Hong Kong’s legendary Golden Princess, comprising the likes of John Woo, Johnnie To, Tsui Hark, and Ringo Lam, to say nothing of filmmakers whose work’s been long sequestered from western eyes and is finally receiving due attention.
