Sundance 2015

  • Documentary
  • Feast for the Eyes

Of Tacos and the City: In Laura Gabbert’s City of Gold, L.A. is Most Beautiful Through Jonathan Gold’s Eyes

Few other cities in modern times defy easy narrative as Los Angeles does. Intoxicating and infuriating in equal measure, it…

8 years ago
  • Cinematography
  • Directing
  • Winter 2016

Persistence of Vision: Inside the Making of The Witch, a Horror Classic for the Ages

Growing up amidst the dilapidated colonial farmhouses and graveyards that lined his neck of New Hampshire, Robert Eggers was plagued…

8 years ago
  • Directing
  • Interviews

A Conversation with Convention: Rick Alverson’s Entertainment Demands a Better Movie-Watcher

"Strategically subversive:" That’s probably the term that gets closest to labeling Rick Alverson’s filmmaking. He sometimes refers to film as…

8 years ago
  • Directing
  • Interviews

Go Ahead, Surprise Me: Sebastian Silva on the Unclassifiable Nasty Baby

With a penchant for clever, funny stories that deviate from genre conventions, Chilean moviemaker Sebastian Silva has bewildered and enthralled…

9 years ago
  • Directing
  • Interviews

Love in the Time of Apocalypse: Craig Zobel on Z for Zachariah and the Benefits of First ADing

Craig Zobel began his career as an assistant director, production manager and co-producer on such films as David Gordon Green's George…

9 years ago
  • Summer 2015

Independence Transcendent: With the iPhone-Shot Tangerine, Sean Baker Makes it Look Easy

If the phrase “independent film” has in recent years felt problematic to you, with one-time rebels “going studio” and A-listers…

9 years ago
  • Acting

Flash Forward: Maika Monroe Doesn’t Spook Easily

In 2011, Maika Monroe was ready to hang up on her dreams of becoming an actor. Though she had been…

9 years ago
  • Directing

It Follows: An Interview with David Robert Mitchell on his Ingeniously Creepy Horror Film

Sure, a lot of beginning moviemakers cut their teeth on horror. It's become a calling card for directors hoping to…

9 years ago
  • Directing
  • Interviews

Surreal Realities: Directors Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia on the Strange and Lovely H.

Prolific and utterly unconventional, the filmmaking duo of Lebanese Rania Attieh and Texan Daniel Garcia, screened their latest film, H.,…

9 years ago
  • Festivals

Park City: 13 Breakthroughs from Sundance 2015

Sometimes calling someone a “Sundance darling” can feel patronizing, as if their onscreen achievements, whatever those may be, only rank…

9 years ago
  • Cinematography
  • Editing
  • Interviews

A Walk in the Woods: Veterans John Bailey and Carol Littleton on their Latest Partnership

A Walk in the Woods, the Ken Kwapis-directed feature that premieres today at the Sundance Film Festival, is an adaption…

9 years ago