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Movie News
The Conjuring and Insidious Star Patrick Wilson Is At His Best When He’s A Little Scared
June 3, 2021Patrick Wilson was meant to direct. Michael Chaves saw the signs. “When you’re shooting, he’ll always...
2021 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee
50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2021, Presented by FilmFreeway
May 22, 2021The 2021 film festival landscape is all about recovery, and almost every festival expects this year...
LGBTQ Film Festivals
20 Fantastic LGBTQ+ Film Festivals, Presented by Film Freeway
February 15, 2021What’s queerness without community? We queers—we noble trans and gender-nonconforming folks, we lesbian, gay, pan, and...
Directing
The Last Black Man in San Francisco: Joe Talbot Injects His Changing Home City’s History Into His Feature Debut
March 23, 2020Thora Birch shows up for a second at the end of The Last Black Man in...
Interviews
Sidney Flanigan in Never Rarely Sometimes Always: From a Backyard Wedding to International Acclaim
March 23, 2020Sidney Flanigan’s road to starring in Never Rarely Sometimes Always, one of the most celebrated films of...
Movie News
Black Christmas Director Sophia Takal on Her Story of ‘Misogyny, Lurking in the Shadows’
December 12, 2019Bob Clark’s Black Christmas, released days before Christmas 1974, largely invented the slasher genre. But what struck...
Movie News
Frankie Director Ira Sachs Spends ‘100 Percent More Time’ Speaking With His Cinematographers than His Actors
October 23, 2019Back in 1962, one of cinema’s great masters, Satyajit Ray, released a film called Kanchenjungha. It...
Movie News
How to Be Both: Antonio Banderas Gets a Long Overdue Retrospective Courtesy of New York’s Quad Cinema
September 19, 2019“Is there something more horrible than that? The selfie?” Antonio Banderas asks cheekily, a little tired,...
Directing
Vita & Virginia: Director Chanya Button Discusses Making Bold Visual and Story Choices In Her Exploration of Queer Desire
September 6, 2019In 1924, while crossing the Tre Croci pass in the Dolomite Mountains of Northern Italy, the...
Movie News
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Strengthens Los Angeles’ Resurgent Film Scene with Their New Location Downtown
July 24, 2019Aren’t we all still mourning the loss of Cinefamily? The beloved, homegrown repertory theater in West...
Movie News
Defying the Expectations of Romcom: Long Shot Director Jonathan Levine on Portraying a True Relationship
May 9, 2019Jonathan Levine knows what you think about his movie. Schlubby guy, gorgeous woman. He’s funny, was...
Interviews
Was Lost, But Now It’s Found: Alan Elliott on Completing the 1972 Aretha Franklin Music Doc Amazing Grace
April 4, 2019Among the many disparate and overlapping interested parties—lovers of soul, lovers of concert documentaries, Sydney Pollack...
Movie News
Brooklyn’s Better: Lytehouse Studio Offers Cutting-Edge Production Facilities Without Skyline-High Manhattan Rates
March 7, 2019Even back then cheap apartments were hard to find in Manhattan,” says Peter MacNicol during his...
Interviews
Transit: Christian Petzold Connects Past and Present Europe in His Refugee Drama
March 7, 2019There is an incredible moment in Christian Petzold’s new film Transit where our hero Georg (played...
Interviews
Mixed Media: Award-Winning Touch Me Not Explores Notions of Intimacy Through a Variety of Boundary-Pushing Methods
February 28, 2019Part documentary, part narrative feature, part research project, part autofiction, Romanian writer/director Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not rests...
Directing
Still Learning: Ben Is Back Writer-Director Peter Hedges on Depicting Addiction
December 13, 2018Ben Is Back is the wonderful new feature film from writer-director Peter Hedges (What’s Eating Gilbert...
Directing
21st Century Icon: Vox Lux Director Brady Corbet Used Dogme 95 and Super Bowl Cameras to Craft His Pop Epic
December 7, 2018Vox Lux is a very big and puzzling movie that is now out, from director Brady...
Directing
Full of Color: Nijla Mu’min on Seeking Representation in Her New Film Jinn
December 3, 2018Nijla Mu’min and I are on the phone talking about rep sweats. “Have you heard of...
Directing
Fall From Race: Jason Reitman Talks Gary Hart’s Political Demise in The Front Runner, Releasing Two Films in One Year
November 15, 2018On April 13, 1987 a young, charismatic, Democratic Senator from Colorado hauled a small caravan of...
Book Reviews
Book Review: Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood
November 15, 2018Karina Longworth is best known as the creator, producer, and host of popular Hollywood history podcast...
Movie News
Flash Forward: How Assassination Nation Star Odessa Young Harnessed Her Self-Described “Pure, White Hot Energy”
September 21, 2018The brutal, bombastic cultural satire that is Assassination Nation explodes into theaters this month, introducing vast...
Book Reviews
Book Review: Hitchcock’s Heroines
September 14, 2018Caroline Young is the Scottish author of several books on film and fashion, most recently Hitchcock’s...
Directing
Pieces of Work: Marc Turtletaub on Moving from Producing Indie Darlings to the Director’s Chair for Puzzle
July 30, 2018You will know the work of prolific producer and sometime director Marc Turtletaub, but may not...
Acting
Sydney on the Map: To Land Breakout Roles, Sydney Sweeney Draws Her Own Maps of the Characters She Inhabits
July 23, 2018A reverent initiate of a patriarchal regime; a disturbed young psychiatric hospital ward; a sexually questioning...
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