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August 21, 2017
The Filmmaker Insights panel decoded the inner workings of both parties, director and editor, and how they come together for a unified purpose.
August 18, 2017
Whose Streets? is a raw look at a group of people coming together to protest injustice after the authorities failed to indict the officer who killed Brown.
August 16, 2017
Before Danielle Macdonald delivered those delicious verses in Patti Cake$, they had been gestating in the mind of a young man.
August 15, 2017
Kogonada, the video essayist and director behind Sundance hit Columbus, populates his quiet setting with intimate conflicts and poignant conversations.
August 11, 2017
This Corner of the World director Sunao Katabuchi talks crowdfunding, digging for historical references, adapting manga source material and more.
August 10, 2017
Get meta with our talk with Ingrid Goes West stars Aubrey Plaza and Elizabeth Olsen and director Matt Spicer, which we turned into an Insta-style thread.
August 8, 2017
Alex Heboyan and Benoit Philippon’s Mune: The Guardian of the Moon would have likely faced rejection if they had attempted to produce it in the U.S.
August 1, 2017
The Untamed (La Region Salvaje) is a beautifully unsettling story about repressed desires reflected on an extraterrestrial being in a small Mexican town.
July 27, 2017
Absent from the limelight for over 20 years, Alejandro Jodorowsky chose to step away from cinema rather than bargain with his artistic integrity.
July 25, 2017
Sébastien Laudenbach’s first feature The Girl Without Hands, based upon the Brothers Grimm fairy tale of the same title, is a singular vision come to life.
July 19, 2017
Out of the hundreds of bachelors and masters programs in the U.S. and Canada, we’ve chosen 40 schools that best represent higher education in moviemaking.
June 30, 2017
The Ornithologist is fascinating, sensually profane and delightful, adjectives that, depending on who you ask, could easily apply to its creator as well.
June 19, 2017
This past June weekend in LA hosted the 9th Hola Mexico Film Festival, the 11th Los Angeles Greek Film Festival and the 20th Dances With Films.
June 14, 2017
At the 43rd Seattle International Film Festival, the largest festival in the U.S., trying to be memorable can be an overwhelming conundrum.
June 12, 2017
Trey Edward Shults was moved by a real-life, interpersonal tragic event to write his sophomore feature It Comes at Night.
June 6, 2017
The Woman Who Left, which earned Lav Diaz the Golden Lion at last year’s Venice Film Festival, is, at nearly four hours long, one of his shortest projects.
May 22, 2017
Director Thomas Vinterberg discusses making The Commune and shares insights on shooting roundtable sequences, fleshing out character backstory and more.
May 17, 2017
In their appropriately titled feature doc debut, Burden, Marrinan and Dewey trace Chris Burden from his rebellious origins up until his death at age 69.
May 11, 2017
Sarah Adina Smith gets existential on the origins of her metaphysical drama, Buster’s Mal Heart, and its demonized hero’s quest for answers in life.
May 10, 2017
Sunscreen Film Festival has become one of the bastions in the fight to not only bring back production into Florida, but to make St. Petersburg stand out.
May 5, 2017
Director Stéphane Brizé discusses his approach to depicting the passage of time and blending contemporary and classical filmmaking styles in A Woman’s Life.
May 3, 2017
A hefty slate of international films is the signature of the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival’s comprehensive program.
April 7, 2017
A rare comet shatters the infinite loop of time, linking two unsatisfied teenage lives in Your Name, the highest-grossing anime film of all time.
April 5, 2017
The contrast between absolute power and total impotence is the thematic core of Albert Serra’s latest portrait, The Death of Louis XIV.