When I wrote the screenplay for What They Had, my debut feature about a family thrown into crisis as they…
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Whether you’re a moviemaker, critic, or devoted film collector, lovers of cinema can all agree: A Criterion Collection release is…
Colin Minihan and Brittany Allen are no strangers to multitasking. Now on the road with What Keeps You Alive, the…
As Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani continue to refine the giallo-inflected post-modern aesthetic they first explored in their 2009 debut feature…
Engaged in muffled psychological warfare, a mother and the daughter she abandoned over three decades ago channel resentment, guilt, and…
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. While pundits will testify to…
By the time indie darling Josephine Decker's Madeline’s Madeline emerged as a top pick of the litter at Sundance 2018’s…
Few personalities encapsulate the brilliantly mad spirit of genre cinema more completely than Canadian actor Michael Ironside. In attendance at…
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A reverent initiate of a patriarchal regime; a disturbed young psychiatric hospital ward; a sexually questioning teen with a flair…
For Antoine Fuqua, every day as a moviemaker is training day. Since making the leap from helming music videos for…
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