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Three Headed Beast Explores Polyamory With Natural Light and Minimal Dialogue
August 25, 2022
Three Headed Beast has nine sex scenes, little dialogue, and nothing but natural light. It lets its visuals do almost…
DON'T LOOK UP clifton collins jr jockey
January 3, 2022
Don't Look Up sparks online debate and we revisit when another filmmaker took on critics in the '70s. Jockey star…
dasha nekrasova the scary of sixty-first red scare
December 1, 2021
Red Scare podcast co-host Dasha Nekrasova on her feature directorial debut The Scary of Sixty-First, which looks at Jeffrey Epstein…
Tarantino novel Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
June 29, 2021
How Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg came together for A.I.; the first book from promising young novelist Quentin Tarantino is…
Charles Grodin Clifford Martin Short
May 19, 2021
We remember the great Charles Grodin; a slew of films jockey for blockbuster status; Kumail Nanjiani will tell the story…
Moffie volleyball Top Gun
April 9, 2021
Moffie, a story of apartheid-era South Africa, has been praised for apparent references to Full Metal Jacket and the volleyball…
Stanley Kubrick Danny Trejo
February 10, 2021
Slamdance intel; a lost Stanley Kubrick noir surfaces; Borat star Maria Bakalova joins a Judd Apatow pandemic movie; Danny Trejo…
Don De Lillo author filmmaker pairings don delillo alan j paluka
December 7, 2020
From Robert Altman and Thomas Pynchon to Alan J. Pakula and Don DeLillo, let's examine a few director/novelist pairings that…
Cucalorus
November 18, 2020
the Cucalorus Film Festival found a way to connect with fans online through a series of deliriously odd, one-time-only live…
Birds of Prey Clockwork Orange Christina Hodson Margot Robbie Harley Quinn Ewan McGregor Trainspotting
February 6, 2020
Clockwork Orange is one of the main influences on Birds of Prey, writer Christina Hodson says. Margot Robbie stars in…
Eyes Wide Shut Stanley Kubrick Eyes Wide Shut
December 25, 2019
Alan Cumming says working with Stanley Kubrick on "Eyes Wide Shut" helped him understand an old acting adage about going…
June 10, 2019
Sitting at his dining room table surrounded by his family’s paintings and drawings, Eli Wallach shared this career-spanning conversation with…
May 16, 2018
What could have easily been a dry history of the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey is instead an anecdotal…
Paul Thomas Anderson Phillip Seymour Hoffman Black Panther
March 3, 2018
With Phantom Thread giving Paul Thomas Anderson his first Best Director nomination since 2007, the American auteur has further cemented himself as…
February 13, 2018
Paul Thomas Anderson, Guillermo del Toro, Greta Gerwig, Christopher Nolan, and Jordan Peele got candid about the making of their…
October 16, 2017
Our inaugural list of The World's 15 Bloody Best Genre Fests will be your guide through the abyss of the…
April 3, 2017
For the moviemakers featured in our slate of content throughout March 2017, resourcefulness was the name of the game. Whether
March 20, 2017
This video shows how Spike Lee's masterful use of the dolly shot speaks volumes about the characters and settings of…
March 7, 2017
Explore the human gaze, one-point perspective and the color red with these wonderful, dizzying supercuts of visual motifs in the…
September 13, 2016
Our movie Operation Avalanche is set in an alternate 1967, with two CIA agent protagonists who have to fake the…
May 8, 2016
Saul Bass designed some of the most iconic title sequences for directors Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Stanley Kubrick and Martin…
March 8, 2016
Stanley Kubrick stands as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time. From his groundbreaking work in Paths of
June 25, 2015
Watching movies is escape: It’s a tired cliché, but one brought hauntingly to life in first-time director Crystal Moselle’s startling…
April 9, 2015
Alex Garland’s Ex Machina is as smart and stylish as the supercomputer at its heart.