Patrick Wilson was meant to direct. Michael Chaves saw the signs. “When you’re shooting, he’ll always say, ‘OK, let me…
The 2021 film festival landscape is all about recovery, and almost every festival expects this year to be better than…
What’s queerness without community? We queers—we noble trans and gender-nonconforming folks, we lesbian, gay, pan, and bisexual babes, we non-binary,…
Thora Birch shows up for a second at the end of The Last Black Man in San Francisco, the feature…
Sidney Flanigan's road to starring in Never Rarely Sometimes Always, one of the most celebrated films of the year, began in…
Bob Clark’s Black Christmas, released days before Christmas 1974, largely invented the slasher genre. But what struck director Sophia Takal about…
Back in 1962, one of cinema’s great masters, Satyajit Ray, released a film called Kanchenjungha. It was the first feature…
“Is there something more horrible than that? The selfie?” Antonio Banderas asks cheekily, a little tired, but presiding in the…
In 1924, while crossing the Tre Croci pass in the Dolomite Mountains of Northern Italy, the novelist and androgynous socialite…
Aren’t we all still mourning the loss of Cinefamily? The beloved, homegrown repertory theater in West Hollywood grew in its…
Jonathan Levine knows what you think about his movie. Schlubby guy, gorgeous woman. He’s funny, was at one time employed,…
Among the many disparate and overlapping interested parties—lovers of soul, lovers of concert documentaries, Sydney Pollack fans, Christians—the news of…
Even back then cheap apartments were hard to find in Manhattan,” says Peter MacNicol during his opening monologue in Sophie’s…
There is an incredible moment in Christian Petzold’s new film Transit where our hero Georg (played inscrutably by Franz Rogowski),…
Part documentary, part narrative feature, part research project, part autofiction, Romanian writer/director Adina Pintilie's Touch Me Not rests comfortably on the boundary…
Ben Is Back is the wonderful new feature film from writer-director Peter Hedges (What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Dan in Real…
Vox Lux is a very big and puzzling movie that is now out, from director Brady Corbet. You may remember…
Nijla Mu’min and I are on the phone talking about rep sweats. “Have you heard of the NPR podcast Code…
On April 13, 1987 a young, charismatic, Democratic Senator from Colorado hauled a small caravan of press, aides, and family…
Karina Longworth is best known as the creator, producer, and host of popular Hollywood history podcast You Must Remember This,…
The brutal, bombastic cultural satire that is Assassination Nation explodes into theaters this month, introducing vast new swaths of audience…
Caroline Young is the Scottish author of several books on film and fashion, most recently Hitchcock’s Heroines, a big, beautiful…
You will know the work of prolific producer and sometime director Marc Turtletaub, but may not recognize his name. Like…
A reverent initiate of a patriarchal regime; a disturbed young psychiatric hospital ward; a sexually questioning teen with a flair…