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Hi! You Are Currently Being Recorded
September 4, 2025
How "Hi! You Are Currently Being Recorded" creators Anna Maguire and Kyle Greenberg used an endless loop to build an…
September 2, 2025
Benny Safdie and Dwayne Johnson discuss the Smashing Machine, which also stars Emily Blunt. Both Johnson and Safdie have things…
Matthew Libatique Highest 2 Lowest Caught Stealing
August 25, 2025
This month, two films that Matthew Libatique shot back-to-back arrive in theaters just a week apart from each other: Spike
July 10, 2025
David Cronenberg laughed through tears as he wrote The Shrouds, his 23rd feature.
June 23, 2025
Social Studies director Lauren Greenfield on how she made the excellent Hulu docuseries about how social media shapes teens' lives.
The Life of Chuck Mike Flanagan
June 18, 2025
The Life of Chuck director Mike Flanagan spent years making movies and working in reality TV before he used a
Say Nothing
June 10, 2025
Say Nothing cinematographer Stephen Murphy on light, darkness and imperfection in the IRA drama Say Nothing, from FX.
Wes Anderson
May 27, 2025
The Phoenician Scheme director Wes Anderson and his loyal actors and crew have found their own unique way of making…
Lucky Lu
May 19, 2025
Lloyd Lee Choi’s inspiration for Lucky Lu was meeting Brooklyn delivery drivers during the pandemic. He says the movie, debuting
Bong Joon Ho Robert Pattinson Mickey 17
March 7, 2025
Spoiler Warning: The following contains spoilers about Mickey 17 by Bong Joon-Ho, out today. There’s a moment in Bong Joon
Anora Mikey Madison Sean Baker
March 2, 2025
Sean Baker’s Oscar triumph with Anora is proof that indie filmmakers can break through the Hollywood system and achieve mainstream
Thomas Noguchi Coroner to the Stars
February 21, 2025
Dr. Thomas Noguchi became known as the “Coroner to the Stars” for his autopsies of the famous — from Marilyn
February 13, 2025
The award-winning "One Step Away" recounts how SCAD helped Sabrina Spanta save her sisters from Afghanistan, where the Taliban restricted…
Conclave
February 7, 2025
Michael Jackman, co-producer of the Best Picture-nominated Conclave, says compromise is part of every film. You just don’t want the
Bong Joon Ho Robert Pattinson Mickey 17
February 6, 2025
Mickey 17 star and director Bong Joon Ho raise the curtain on a sci-fi thriller about death, rebirth, and doing…
Hard Truths Mike Leigh
February 3, 2025
Mike Leigh famously says his method of filmmaking is to “devise and direct,” meaning, his actors devise their characters under
Brutalist Judy Becker
January 30, 2025
Well before she met The Brutalist director Brady Corbet, production designer Judy Becker hoped she could work with him. Becker
Cooper Raiff Lili Reinhart Hal & Harper
January 29, 2025
Cooper Raiff says Hal & Harper, his indie TV series also starring Lili Reinhart and Mark Ruffalo, is his passion
January 28, 2025
James Sweeney’s Twinless poses the question: What happens when you lose the person who made you whole?  The film, now
January 24, 2025
Amanda Kramer’s surreal and audacious By Design explores envy through the aesthetics of an immaculately designed chair. Juliette Lewis stars
Saturday Nighy John Papsidera
January 5, 2025
John Papsidera was casting Saturday Night all wrong.  When he was casting for the sprawling company of actors needed in
Anora DP Drew Daniels
December 17, 2024
Anora cinematography Drew Daniels likes the uncertainty of working with film stock.  “It puts a little bit more faith and
Karla Sofia Gascón in Emilia Perez Oscar nominations
November 19, 2024
In Emilia Pérez, Karla Sofia Gascón takes on one of the most complex roles imaginable — that of a feared
Anora Mikey Madison Sean Baker
October 9, 2024
Doing research for Sean Baker’s Anora, in which she plays an exotic dancer romanced by the son of a Russian