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The Conjuring Patrick Wilson
June 3, 2021
The Conjuring star Patrick Wilson is known for a catalog of both dashing and dastardly men, but he has been most successful in the last decade in horror.
50 film festivals worth the entry fee film festival
May 22, 2021
A key component of the film ecosystem, the film festival is ready for a fresh start in 2021. Here’s our 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2021.
LGBTQ Film 20 Fantastic LGBTQ+ Film Festivals From Around the Globe
February 15, 2021
LGBTQ+ Film Festivals: Here are 20 of the best, brightest, and queerest film festivals around the globe to keep your eye on for 2021.
last Black Man in San Francisco Joe Talbot
March 23, 2020
The collaborative debut of lifelong friends Joe Talbot and Jimmie Fails, The Last Black Man in San Francisco is haunting and masterful in its delivery.
Sidney Flanigan Never Rarely Sometimes Always
March 23, 2020
For Sidney Flanigan, the road to starring in Never Rarely Sometimes Always began in her native Buffalo, New York, when she was 14.
Sophia Takal Black Christmas
December 12, 2019
Black Christmas, the new film from director Sophia Takal, focuses in on the misogyny portrayed in the original, which largely invented the slasher genre
Frankie Ira Sachs
October 23, 2019
Frankie director Ira Sachs was so ensorcelled by Kanchenjungha by Satyajit Ray, that he conceived of his latest feature as a kind of spiritual successor.
September 19, 2019
On September 18th, Quad Cinema opens the first retrospective of the Antonio Banderas’ work programmed at a major international independent cinema house.
September 6, 2019
Vita & Virginia is a romantic portrait of a complex relationship—queer, consuming, and operating on multiple registers at once.
July 24, 2019
The 40th Alamo Drafthouse Cinema has opened in downtown L.A., with their signature mix of custom drinks, full food service, and eclectic programming in tow.
May 9, 2019
Dir. Jonathan Levine told us about Long Shot, his anti-sexist, meta sendup of classic romcom tropes, and embrace of the possibilities those tropes present.
April 4, 2019
In 1972, Sydney Pollack was hired by Warner Bros. to capture Aretha Franklin’s gospel record Amazing Grace, but the footage was never seen—until now.
March 7, 2019
In New York, the cradle of moviemaking, Brooklyn is rising as a top budget-friendly moviemaking destination opposite rival borough Manhattan.
March 7, 2019
Christian Petzold’s hallmarks are present in Transit—the elasticity of identity, the brisk pacing of a thriller, and a backdrop of political upheaval.
February 28, 2019
Romanian writer-director Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not rests comfortably on the boundary between genres and tones that most works of art merely flirt with.
December 13, 2018
Ben is Back director Peter Hedges discusses his relationship to addiction, writing about opioid dependence, and still learning 30 years into his career.
December 7, 2018
For the concert scenes of Vox Lux, Brady Corbet opted for a high-def camera used to shoot the Super Bowl. “It’s ugly—you can see people’s pores,” he says.
December 3, 2018
Jinn director Nijla Mu’min spoke with us about her creative process, and her struggle to accurately portray her a very specific worldview.
November 15, 2018
Jason Reitman told us about making The Front Runner, which tracks Colorado Senator Gary Hart’s spectacular fall from grace during his 1987 presidency bid.
November 15, 2018
Karina Longworth’s Seduction is not the incurious paean to yet another over-glorified lothario one might expect from a “famous dead guy” biography.
September 21, 2018
Assassination Nation explodes into theaters this month, introducing vast new swaths of audience to its dynamic star, Odessa Young.
September 14, 2018
Hitchcock’s Heroines is a big, beautiful and, perhaps, ill-timed, survey of women’s style in the films of Alfred Hitchcock.
July 30, 2018
Puzzle director Marc Turtletaub talks adapting an Argentinian film, the distinctions between producing and directing, and Kelly Macdonald’s spellbinding presence.
July 23, 2018
From The Handmaid’s Tale, to the Amy Adams-starring HBO miniseries Sharp Objects, to Under the Silver Lake, 2018 is breaking Sydney Sweeney’s way. We got up close and personal with one of the year’s shooting stars in film and TV.