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Both Sides of the Blade- Claire Denis Chooses Her Words Carefully
July 8, 2022
For Claire Denis, Both Sides of the Blade, starring Vincent Lindon and Juliette Binoche, is both a reunion and a return to Earth.
Carlos López Estrada summertime blindspotting
July 7, 2021
Director Carlos López Estrada structured his sophomore feature, Summertime, around his first experience at a Koreatown spoken-word event.
Charm City Kings Angel Manuel Soto
October 9, 2020
Charm City Kings, by Ángel Manuel Soto, follows Mouse, a strong-willed teenager, as he joins in on the four-wheeled cliques that dominate his hometown.
The Truffle Hunters New York Film Festival NYFF
October 6, 2020
The online New York Film Festival gave a wider audience access to NYFF awards hopefuls, including Nomadland and The Truffle Hunters.
Best Film Schools in the US and Canada
August 17, 2020
Take note, these 40 film programs that make up our 40 Best Film Schools in the US and Canada will greatly aid in your application process this Fall.
Marona's Fantastic Tale Anca Damian
June 16, 2020
Anca Damian got the idea for her film Marona’s Fantastic Tale after she came across a stray puppy while walking her own dog.
The Climb
April 9, 2020
The Climb filmmakers Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin planned to ride across America to promote cycling-centric comedy. Then COVID-19 happened.
Lulu wang The Farwell
April 2, 2020
The Farewell director Lulu Wang spoke at the Miami Film Festival about how diversity improves stories, cross-cultural notes, and fluourescent lights.
Benh Zeitlin Wendy chaos
February 28, 2020
Beasts of Southern Wild director Benh Zeitlin had two co-writers on his new film Wendy. The first was his sister Eliza Zeitlin. The second was chaos.
Timmy Failure Tom McCarthy
February 7, 2020
Spotlight director Tom McCarthy turns to a very different kind of investigator for his new film Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire Atlantics Claire Mathon
February 5, 2020
Claire Mathon shot two spellbinding love stories separated by time and geography: Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Mati Diop’s Atlantics.
Atlantics
January 8, 2020
With the Oscar nominations days away, filmmakers up for Best International Feature Film nominations gathered at the Palm Springs International Film Festival
Best Latin American Cinema Zama After Lucia Young and Wild Carlos Aguilar
December 25, 2019
Carlos Aguilar and Conor Holt present highlights of over 50 Latin American cinema films from 2010 to 2019, from After Lucia to Young and Wild
Waves soundtrack Trey Edward Shults Waves soundtrack Trey Edward Shults
November 19, 2019
The Waves soundtrack is unlike any other. Director Trey Edward Shults takes us through the songs to decode them track by track.
August 6, 2019
MovieMaker surveys 13 directors from the 2019 Palm Springs ShortFest on the most difficult aspects of creating short films.
May 16, 2019
To create the sets of The Souvenir, writer-director Joanna Hogg replicated her former apartment from memory inside an aircraft hangar.
May 10, 2019
How is a stop-motion movie made twice? Your entire production has to be storyboarded before you shoot anything, says Missing Link director Chris Butler.
January 18, 2019
Steven Yeun answered our questions about his way into his impenetrable character in Burning, South Korea’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
January 18, 2019
The woman behind the The Wedding Ring, journalist-turned-moviemaker Rahmatou Keïta, tells us about Niger’s first ever entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
January 10, 2019
Divided into two distinctively wondrous halves, modern parable Happy as Lazzaro is a stroke of genius from Italian director Alice Rohrwacher.
January 10, 2019
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts is an Indonesian take on the classic tropes popularized by spaghetti westerns, adapted to hit culturally specific notes.
December 6, 2018
Director Radu Jude talks manipulated history and the ethics of depicting tragedy in I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians.
December 5, 2018
Never Look Away’s Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck shares his idiosyncratic writing and film editing style, and his thoughts on a film’s ideal run-time.
December 4, 2018
A caustic, royal love triangle is the new target of industrious Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos’ delectably wicked gaze in The Favourite.