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March 27, 2017
Many told Tomáš Weinreb and Petr Kazda “You will never make this film,” but the directors’ persistence got their true story-based I, Olga Hepnarová made.
March 23, 2017
Canoa exposes the relationship between a brutal historic crime in Mexico and the danger at the center of both faith and political influence.
March 22, 2017
Michael Fassbender’s Cook in Terrence Malick’s Song to Song is the insidious catalyst to the turmoil that enraptures the rest of the characters.
March 17, 2017
For his comedy Suntan, director Argyris Papadimitropoulos urged his actors to go out and drink, flirt and act stupid to capture the film’s decadent feel.
March 10, 2017
The Gasparilla International Film Festival (March 2-9, 2017) continues to adhere to wise belief that in most cases less is more.
March 8, 2017
Tampa Bay’s hometown heroes don’t get much bigger than actor Patrick Wilson, who grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida in a family fully invested in the arts.
March 1, 2017
Overseas attention for Pedro Almodóvar didn’t come until the release of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown in 1988.
February 28, 2017
In Richard Linklater’s Before films, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke eschewed the actor’s traditional passivity, taking on proactive roles as co-creators.
February 26, 2017
Breaking with what in recent editions served as a preview to the Academy Awards, the 2017 Independent Spirit Awards delivered […]
February 22, 2017
Karla Souza is uninterested in pursuing work that perpetuates outdated depictions of Latinas in entertainment, thank you very much.
February 17, 2017
The eight actors who received the Virtuosos Award from the Santa Barbara International Film Festival made a diverse and illustrious crowd.
February 17, 2017
Writer-director Catalina Aguilar Mastretta talks making Everybody Loves Somebody, and defines what “Mexican filmmaker” and “woman filmmaker” mean to her.
February 17, 2017
Isabelle Huppert, often referred to as the greatest actress working today, is an artist with incomparable range. Few performers can […]
February 13, 2017
A visually economical war film, Martin Zandvliet’s Academy Award-nominated Land of Mine finds poetry in the spareness of the desert landscape.
February 9, 2017
The actors recently received their second nominations together for their work in Damien Chazelle’s acclaimed box-office hit La La Land.
February 7, 2017
Few names inspire as much respect as Denzel Washington’s. Audiences know him from, well, countless stellar performances in virtually all genres.
February 3, 2017
With Dark Night, Tim Sutton devised a fragmented narrative that follows a series of characters over a single day leading up to a tragedy.
February 2, 2017
Nothing in recent memory rivals the audacious premise behind Agnieszka Smoczynska’s debut feature, The Lure, a new Polish gem.
February 1, 2017
A new player in indie financing and producing, Russell Levine has achieved success with projects that have premiered at major festivals and turned a profit.
January 31, 2017
25 years after it debuted at Sundance, Quentin Tarantino talks Reservoir Dogs, what he learned from the festival’s labs and the ’90s boom for US indie film.
January 25, 2017
Oscar-winning writer-director Asghar Faradi talks about giving clues for viewers without stating the obvious, milking suspense and what “Iranian film” is.
January 18, 2017
Michaël Dudok de Wit, whom Studio Ghibli invited to be the company’s first animation collaborator, channels nature’s beauty and mysteries in The Red Turtle.
December 29, 2016
MovieMaker speaks with director Maren Ade and star Sandra Hüller about shooting key sequences in their acclaimed dramedy Toni Erdmann.
December 15, 2016
A grieving Romanian family struggle to hold the pieces of their life together in Cristi Puiu’s quiet-yet-monumental Sieranevada.