All posts by Ryan Coleman
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Frankie Director Ira Sachs Looked 57 Years Into the Past for Inspiration
The latest feature from filmmaker Ira Sachs is Frankie, a sublime meditation on the passage of relationships starring Isabelle Huppert. It is rendered in a timeless...
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How to Be Both: Antonio Banderas Gets a Long Overdue Retrospective Courtesy of New York’s Quad Cinema
“Is there something more horrible than that? The selfie?” Antonio Banderas asks cheekily, a little tired, but presiding in the grand yet earnest manner we’ve...
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Vita & Virginia: Director Chanya Button Discusses Making Bold Visual and Story Choices In Her Exploration of Queer Desire
In 1924, while crossing the Tre Croci pass in the Dolomite Mountains of Northern Italy, the novelist and androgynous socialite superstar Vita Sackville-West stopped to...
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Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Strengthens Los Angeles’ Resurgent Film Scene with Their New Location Downtown
Aren’t we all still mourning the loss of Cinefamily? The beloved, homegrown repertory theater in West Hollywood grew in its short ten-year lifespan to capture...
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The Last Black Man in San Francisco: Joe Talbot Injects His Changing Home City’s History Into His Feature Debut
Thora Birch shows up for a second at the end of The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Joe Talbot’s mesmerizing feature debut, which has...
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Defying the Expectations of Romcom: Long Shot Director Jonathan Levine on Portraying a True Relationship
Jonathan Levine knows what you think about his movie. Schlubby guy, gorgeous woman. He’s funny, was at one time employed, and *checks notes* has an...
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Was Lost, But Now It’s Found: Alan Elliott on Completing the 1972 Aretha Franklin Music Doc Amazing Grace
Among the many disparate and overlapping interested parties—lovers of soul, lovers of concert documentaries, Sydney Pollack fans, Christians—the news of Alan Elliott’s Aretha Franklin documentary...
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Brooklyn’s Better: Lytehouse Studio Offers Cutting-Edge Production Facilities Without Skyline-High Manhattan Rates
Even back then cheap apartments were hard to find in Manhattan,” says Peter MacNicol during his opening monologue in Sophie’s Choice. Shot exiting a dark...
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Transit: Christian Petzold Connects Past and Present Europe in His Refugee Drama
There is an incredible moment in Christian Petzold’s new film Transit where our hero Georg (played inscrutably by Franz Rogowski), a refugee of the past,...
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Mixed Media: Award-Winning Touch Me Not Explores Notions of Intimacy Through a Variety of Boundary-Pushing Methods
Part documentary, part narrative feature, part research project, part autofiction, Romanian writer/director Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not rests comfortably on the boundary between genres and tones that...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
1Inside the Issue: Directing
Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...