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Simply Good: Alice Rohrwacher on Casting Off YouTube and Having a Wolf on Set for Happy as Lazzaro
Divided into two distinctively wondrous halves—one pastoral/one urban—modern parable Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro felice) is a new stroke of genius from Italian... -
AFI Fest 2018 Preview: International Masters and New Voices Come to Hollywood with Boundary-Pushing Stories
Year after year, cinephiles in Los Angeles eagerly await the announcement of AFI Fest’s list of award-winning titles, which encompasses the best... -
Exclusive: An Apple A Day Keeps The System Away In This Clip from Vladimir de Fontenay’s Mobile Homes (Video)
Adapted from his 2013 short of the same name, writer-director Vladimir de Fontenay paints a beautifully uncomfortable picture with his feature slice-of-wandering life Mobile... -
NewFilmmakers LA: Marina Rocco, Guja Quaranta, Manuel Savoia, and More
This new installment of our series of NewFilmmakers LA interviews features conversations with moviemakers included above, as well as Kuan-Fu Lin and Jason O. Silva. NewFilmmakers... -
Singing for Your Life: Paul Weitz on Adapting and Directing Bel Canto
In Bel Canto Julianne Moore plays celebrated opera diva Roxanne Coss, caught up in the center of a hostage crisis in Paul... -
Festival Beat: Beyond Fest Founders On Building A Genre Festival From Goblin to Cronenberg
Among their many eccentric counterparts over the years, insect politicians, Haddonfield historians and bitchin’ scary German guys are three of a wide... -
The Great Bogdanovich: The Moviemaker’s Varied Film Career Has Always Celebrated His Idols
Peter Bogdanovich has enjoyed a remarkably balanced career as both a film historian and acclaimed moviemaker. His latest documentary, The Great Buster: A... -
Flash Forward: How Assassination Nation Star Odessa Young Harnessed Her Self-Described “Pure, White Hot Energy”
The brutal, bombastic cultural satire that is Assassination Nation explodes into theaters this month, introducing vast new swaths of audience to its... -
Book Review: Harmony Korine’s First Monograph Explores Multi-Disciplinary Practices Ahead of BLOCKBUSTER Exhibit
Harmony Korine’s first monograph reads like a grand montage of a primed spirit. To date, he has created art of several mediums... -
The Glory of Blaze: Ethan Hawke on His Restless Spirit, Coming Full Circle and His New Country Music Movie
Cool, cocky and complex, Ethan Hawke sits down with me at a breakfast table in the Boerum Hill section of Brooklyn for...
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Flash Forward: Grace Van Patten Takes a Leap into the Unknown in David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
Many actors will tell you that when you read a great script, you just know. But for Grace Van Patten, it was actually not knowing that...1Inside the Issue: Directing
Success in Succession: Matteo Garrone Shot Dogman Entirely in Sequence to Put Viewers in His Character’s Shoes
I wrote the script for my new film, Dogman, 12 years ago, and during those years I changed it many times, arriving at six or seven...Inside the Issue: How To
Journalism Plus: How Hail Satan?, The Brink, and Leaving Neverland Blend Truth-Seeking With Cinematic Storytelling
“Journalism Plus” is how Academy Award-winning moviemaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) characterizes making documentaries. If you’re a documentarian, you may not have a degree or credentials in...8