For Claire Denis, Both Sides of the Blade is both a reunion and a return to Earth. In her first…
The boldness of Blindspotting, an electric dramedy exploring race and gentrification in Oakland, gained director Carlos López Estrada considerable industry…
Nothing about La Granja, from Ángel Manuel Soto, suggests he would embrace the car chases and tense action of his…
One of the few positives to come out of the drastically changed festival landscape of 2020 is the expanded reach…
Welcome to MovieMaker's annual list of the Best Film Schools in the U.S. and Canada, at what is obviously a…
Anca Damian got the idea for her film Marona’s Fantastic Tale when she came across a stray puppy while walking…
Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin co-wrote and co-star in The Climb, a hilarious love letter to a complicated but…
Lulu Wang is the writer-director behind The Farewell, which follows a Chinese-American woman as she returns to her family’s homeland…
Beasts of Southern Wild director Benh Zeitlin had two co-writers on his new film Wendy. The first was his sister…
Spotlight director Tom McCarthy turns to a very different kind of investigator for his new film Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were…
In one year, Claire Mathon shot two spellbinding love stories separated by time and geography: Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a…
With the Oscar nominations less than a week away, filmmakers vying for Best International Feature Film nominations gathered at the…
Want to watch a few beautiful moments of the best Latin American cinema of the last decade? MovieMaker contributor Carlos…
“For a long time I’ve loved movies whose ebbs and flows are driven by needle drops,” director Trey Edward Shults…
By providing a space where short films can be appreciated without competing for attention alongside feature films, Palm Springs International…
Resurrecting momentous events in her personal history—including the physical spaces where they occurred—deftly-introspective British moviemaker Joanna Hogg created The Souvenir,…
Tantalized by the unknown from childhood, British moviemaker Chris Butler found in animation an ideal medium to interact with the…
A household name among global TV audiences, who followed him over six seasons of hit show The Walking Dead, Korean-born…
Financially limited, but overflowing with cultural richness, African cinema is less frequently present at international festivals than productions from most…
Divided into two distinctively wondrous halves—one pastoral/one urban—modern parable Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro felice) is a new stroke of genius…
Reminiscent of Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns, Kurosawa’s samurai epics, and by extension of Tarantino’s revenge tales, Marlina the Murderer in…
A purveyor of communal introspection and historical accountability, Romanian visionary Radu Jude makes movies about specific events, defining time periods,…
Attaining Oscar glory in the Best Foreign Language Film category back in 2007 with his first feature, The Lives of…
A caustic, royal love triangle is the new target of industrious Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos’ delectably wicked gaze. Boasting absurd…