Stories By Carlos Aguilar
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Directing
Auteur in the Making: With The Childhood of a Leader, Brady Corbet Comes of Age as a Moviemaker
July 22, 2016Hours prior to the end of the world, he becomes a bride’s object of desire. He’s...
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Festivals
A Kingdom of Thrills and Magic: Inside the 2016 Edition of Emerging Genre Mecca FilmQuest
July 6, 2016Led by Cthulhu, creatures from all realms—fantasy, horror, and science fiction—descended onto Utah’s vast landscape and...
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Documentary
A Diet of Myth and Fable: Roger Ross Williams’ Life, Animated is a Hopeful Reminder of the Power of Movies
July 1, 2016Quoting from a favorite scene, empathizing with a character’s dilemma, adopting the philosophies of fictional societies—anyone...
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Directing
Opposite Country: Lorenzo Vigas on Anamorphic Intimacy and Venezuelan Daddy Issues in From Afar
June 21, 2016Using his privilege as a weapon, a middle-aged man roams the streets of Caracas, searching young...
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Directing
Lack of Love: Maya Vitkova Channels Her Childhood from Communist Bulgaria in Viktoria
June 15, 2016It’s easier to be courageous while fighting for creative autonomy when it doesn’t mean becoming a political...
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Directing
Her Own Moves: Anna Rose Holmer Merges Strength and Grace in The Fits
June 10, 2016To come of age is to leave behind a fragment of individuality in exchange for the...
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Directing
Intuitive Nomad: Athina Tsangari on What Inspired Her All-Male Stunner Chevalier
June 10, 2016To consider oneself a filmmaker is an all-encompassing state of being that seeps into every facet...
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Documentary
All Due Respect: With Documentary Art Bastard, Robert Cenedella Hopes to Go Direct-to-Audience
June 3, 2016Unafraid to share his sharp, often unpopular, views on the elitist financial formulae by which so-called...
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Directing
Fragmenting Responsibility: Rodrigo Plá and Laura Santullo on Thriller A Monster With a Thousand Heads
May 24, 2016Reacting to the impotence and frustration that comes when the mechanics of the world work to...
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Directing
Upwardly Mobile: Ben Wheatley Ascends to Bigger and Starrier Heights with High-Rise
May 13, 2016A pantheon to morally dubious characters and the atrocities they commit, Ben Wheatley’s body of work...
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Directing
Idiomatic Idiosyncrasy: Yorgos Lanthimos Talks The Lobster, Greek Cinema and Musical Subtlety
May 12, 2016Whether depicting a family sheltering their children into madness, a group of people selling an unorthodox...
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Festivals
Homegrown Moviemaking Meets International Highlights: the 35th Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival
May 2, 2016As curators of films that might not easily reach local audiences, regional festivals hold a precious...
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Directing
Colorful Escapism: John Carney on the Fluid Musical Identity of Sing Street
April 15, 2016Within the catchy melodies and sing-along-friendly lyrics that comprise the tunes in John Carney’s movie musicals...
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Interviews
Can Distance Be Intimate?: In Gabriel Mascaro’s Neon Bull, Bodies Convey Violence, Pleasure and Change
April 8, 2016The battle to rise above one’s prescribed destiny is what captivates Brazilian director Gabriel Mascaro, who...
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Directing
Peeling the Onion: Joachim Trier on His Layered, Slow-Burning Louder Than Bombs
April 8, 2016In Louder Than Bombs, Joachim Trier’s latest exploration on the catalysts and consequences of human behavior,...
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Directing
From an Unnerving Dream: Matt Sobel on the Visceral Sensations in Take Me to the River
March 25, 2016Blending excruciating feelings of alienation with the menacing threat of what piercing intrigue can turn into,...
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Interviews
Playful Memories: Arnaud Desplechin Reinvents a Romance From the Past in My Golden Days
March 23, 2016To remember is to reinterpret, when thinking about the past the flow of memories is never...
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Directing
Augmented Needs: Director Benjamin Dickinson Makes Technology Visceral in Creative Control
March 11, 2016Science-fiction premises and impressive futuristic settings are absolutely possible in independent cinema—if they’re grounded on skillful...
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Directing
Human at the Seams: Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson Make Yearning Tangible in Anomalisa
December 30, 2015In Anomalisa, a delicately melancholic observation on loneliness and the flawed human condition, acclaimed writer-director Charlie...
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Acting
Fighting Death, of Cinema and Humanity: László Nemes and Géza Röhrig on the Blazing Son of Saul
December 18, 2015To walk in someone else’s shoes and see the world through their eyes is, in many...
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Directing
Need Funding? Sell Christmas Trees: Charles Poekel Lived Christmas, Again Before He Shot It (on Super-16)
December 3, 2015Behind the colorful lights, snowy days and decorative displays that mark that arrival of the holiday...
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Directing
A Conversation with Convention: Rick Alverson’s Entertainment Demands a Better Movie-Watcher
November 13, 2015“Strategically subversive:” That’s probably the term that gets closest to labeling Rick Alverson’s filmmaking. He sometimes...
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Directing
Go Ahead, Surprise Me: Sebastian Silva on the Unclassifiable Nasty Baby
October 22, 2015With a penchant for clever, funny stories that deviate from genre conventions, Chilean moviemaker Sebastian Silva...
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Cinematography
Eye Piece: Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth Wages Stare Wars in Super 16
August 26, 2015Wielding old grudges and fierce regrets as sharpened weapons, two women reassess their friendship in Queen...
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