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Road-Tripping: Director Sebastian Schipper on Why Shooting Roads Chronologically Was His Film’s Best Path Forward
Rarely is a film shot chronologically. But then Roads is a unique feature. Inspired by children’s...
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Framing John DeLorean: Directors Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce Talk Blending Archival Footage With Reenactments
A fleet of sleek, gull-wing DMC-12 DeLoreans revved up to New York’s SVA Theater for the...
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Stefon Bristol’s See You Yesterday Melds Time Travel and the Harsh Realities of African-American Life Seamlessly
Stefon Bristol’s See You Yesterday is full of surprises. Produced by Spike Lee, Bristol’s film takes...
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A Talk on the Wilde Side: Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart, Her New Home Behind the Camera, and Her Plans to Save the World
A young mother whose eight-year-old son was abducted a year earlier awakens in the middle of the...
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How They Did It: Director Joanna Hogg Drew from her Memory to Craft the Sets for The Souvenir
Resurrecting momentous events in her personal history—including the physical spaces where they occurred—deftly-introspective British moviemaker Joanna...
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“Making Movies as Timeless as They Can Be”: Director Ritesh Batra on Evoking Longing in Photograph
In an early scene in Photograph, Ritesh Batra’s return to his hometown Mumbai after his directorial...
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Production Diaries: Trial by Fire Director Edward Zwick and Crew Started Their Shoot by Lighting an On-Screen Inferno
Based on the George Polk Award-winning New Yorker article of the same name, director Edward Zwick’s...
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High Life Director Claire Denis Discusses Black Holes, Bringing an Astrophysicist On Set, and the Death Penalty
On the surface, many entries in Claire Denis’ filmography appear relatively easy to synopsize (her latest...
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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...
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Peterloo: Director Mike Leigh Doesn’t Play It Safe With His 19th Century Period Drama
To make Peterloo—my new film based on the Peterloo Massacre of 1819, during which tens of thousands...
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Out of the Ordinary: How Indian Moviemaker Rima Das Finds Beauty In Everyday Life
In an incandescent moment in Indian moviemaker Rima Das’ third feature Bulbul Can Sing, the titular character, an Assamese teenage girl, is guided...
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Direct From Video: How Directing Music Videos Can Make You a Better Feature Moviemaker
When I was playing drums in the Swedish black metal band Bathory in the early 1980s, it took me...
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How They Did It: Asghar Farhadi Lived in the Country of His Spanish-Speaking Stars to Write and Direct Everybody Knows
Before I went to Spain to make my new film Everybody Knows—a thriller which follows the tumultuous events that ensue when...
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New Filmmakers LA: Jane Wells, Jenica Jackson, Juan Pablo Arias Munoz, Kenny Sheard and More
This new installment of our series of NewFilmmakers LA interviews features conversations with moviemakers included above, as well...
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The 2019 MovieMaker Sundance Survey: Eleven Sundance-Selected Films, and Their Mountain-Bound Makers
The 35th Sundance Film Festival received a record-breaking 14,000-plus submissions, with 4,000-plus feature-length films among them. Of the...
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Foreign Contenders: Rahmatou Keïta on Financing Niger’s The Wedding Ring Entirely with African Funds
Financially limited, but overflowing with cultural richness, African cinema is less frequently present at international festivals...
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NewFilmmakers LA: Rebecca Kenyon, Priscilla Gonzalez Sainz, Valentino N. Misino and More
This new installment of our series of NewFilmmakers LA interviews features conversations about movies directed by D.P. Carlson,...
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On the Basis of Sex: Director Mimi Leder on the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Biopic, RBG’s Reaction to its Sex Scene, and More
On the Basis of Sex, a new movie by veteran director Mimi Leder, is the origin...
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“Do Something That Doesn’t Bore the Crap Out Of You”: How Rust Creek Dir. Jen McGowan Avoided a Cookie Cutter Career
“I make material that I find interesting,” says director Jen McGowan. “I’m a feminist, so those...
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Foreign Contenders: Director Mouly Surya on Indonesian Western Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts
Reminiscent of Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns, Kurosawa’s samurai epics, and by extension of Tarantino’s revenge tales,...
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NewFilmmakers LA: Andrew Vasquez, Daniel Watkins, Erica Eng, Horace Gold, and More
This new installment of our series of NewFilmmakers LA interviews features conversations with moviemakers included above, as well...
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Still Learning: Ben Is Back Writer-Director Peter Hedges on Depicting Addiction
Ben Is Back is the wonderful new feature film from writer-director Peter Hedges (What’s Eating Gilbert...
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21st Century Icon: Vox Lux Director Brady Corbet Used Dogme 95 and Super Bowl Cameras to Craft His Pop Epic
Vox Lux is a very big and puzzling movie that is now out, from director Brady...
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Embracing Change: Director Kendall Goldberg On Her Feature Debut When Jeff Tried to Save the World
“I am a creature of habit,” says When Jeff Tried to Save the World director Kendall...
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