Symptoms of the Universe: Sarah Adina Smith’s Buster’s Mal Heart Diagnoses the Thinking Behind Conspiracy Theories
Conspiracy theorists are addicted to order. Even if their most feared hypotheses about the monstrous entities that rule the world are true,...
Festival Wrap: A Weekend Film School, Spaceballs Screening and Joe Pantoliano at Sunscreen Film Festival 2017
Through its unprecedented success on both the festival circuit and mainstream awards platforms, Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight has become the flagship film of...
Unspoken Invitation: In Stéphane Brizé’s A Woman’s Life, The End of Innocence is Timeless
Victims of social structures that dilute their idealized notions of reality, the characters in director Stéphane Brizé’s humanistic dramas are often entrapped by...
Festival Wrap: Frederick Wiseman, Animation Shine at Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival 2017
A hefty slate of international films, both crowd-pleasers and more intellectually challenging fare, is the signature of the Minneapolis St. Paul International...
Under a Lucky Star: Makoto Shinkai Talks Your Name, The Highest-Grossing Anime Film of All Time
A rare comet shatters the infinite loop of time, linking two unsatisfied teenage lives in the anime hit Your Name—the highest-grossing anime...
No Risk of Cliché: The Unorthodox Methods of Director Albert Serra Pay Off in The Death of Louis XIV
The contrast between absolute power and total impotence is the thematic core of Albert Serra’s latest portrait, The Death of Louis XIV....
Driven to Madness: Tomáš Weinreb and Petr Kazda Found Humanity, Not Glory, in the Antihero of I, Olga Hepnarová
For any society, reckoning with the actions of its most troubled members is nigh impossible. Irrationality prevents the existence of satisfactory answers...
Canoa Revisited: Felipe Cazals on His 1976 Masterpiece, Mexican History, Horror Storytelling and Politics in Filmmaking
In the interim between a Golden Age bogged down with melodramas, stereotypical treatments of masculine and pastoral glorification, and the emergence of...
Devilish Charisma: Michael Fassbender on Making Song to Song With Terrence Malick and Emmanuel Lubezki
Overdosing on his on own ambition, confronted with the shattered reality of a broken brotherly bond and a slew of unsatisfying affairs,...
Lonely Island: Argyris Papadimitropoulos on Middle Age Frustration and Shooting Suntan Without a Script
Soaked in a profound yearning for acceptance and subverting tropes associated with youth, Argyris Papadimitropoulos’ dark character study Suntan presents its middle-aged...
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The Best Film Schools in the U.S. and Canada 2017: Film Programs to Shape You Into the Next Moviemaking All-Star
Perhaps you’re someone who dreams of a career in moviemaking, and has come to the realization that the discipline, experimentation and personal relationships that flourish in an...8Inside the Issue: Cinematography
What’s in Your Kit? The Underwater Gear Used in Jeff Orlowski’s Gorgeous Environmental Doc Chasing Coral
How do you show irrefutable proof that the world’s coral reefs are rapidly dying due to climate change? Director Jeff Orlowski’s feature Chasing Coral follows an...Inside the Issue: Directing
Of Bad Apes and Twisted Revenge: Matt Reeves, Steve Zahn, Weta Digital and Others on War for the Planet of the Apes
Actor Steve Zahn—known for his roles in That Thing You Do, Riding in Cars With Boys, and Dallas Buyers Club—once stumbled onto an online post about...