For Ethan Hawke’s fifth feature film as a director, he directs his daughter Maya Hawke as Southern Gothic literary legend…
Martin McDonagh knows the importance of kindness on a film set. His fourth feature film, The Banshees of Inisherin, stars…
Sometimes Maggie Gyllenhaal has worked on films with directors who appreciated her brilliance. Sometimes she hasn’t. “I have learned over…
"My goal is to be a transformational actor,” says Mahershala Ali, star of Apple TV+'s Swan Song. “What I mean…
Paul Verhoeven is the rare director who makes hit films that also invite deep analysis. They’re often violent, and sexual,…
When Spike Lee arrived at New York University’s graduate film program in the early ’80s, he had never heard of…
From Kings County State Correctional Facility to the private tutelage of the legendary Lee Strasberg, Robert Downey Jr. has blazed…
This fall marks the 40th anniversary of Ken Burns’ first documentary, Brooklyn Bridge. In the decades since, he’s established himself…
Viggo Mortensen has disappeared into roles as a Russian mobster in Eastern Promises, a Bronx bouncer with a lot to…
The work of Abel Ferrara has always mixed arthouse and grit, and his two 2020 films continue that tradition. The…
Quentin Tarantino never went to film school. But he has a lot to teach, from the importance of knowing your…
"I hope you’re taping this. One day I would like to have a copy,” Jonas Mekas tells me from his New…
With All I See is You, director Marc Forster consciously pivots back toward the ambiguous feature, the once prevalent film…
A German enfant terrible (or just plain terrible, for many critics) moves to Vancouver in the late ’90s and builds…
Richard Ayoade is a cinephile. That much is made abundantly clear in Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey, his book…
Is it easy being cinema’s reigning enfant terrible? No, but Gaspar Noé wears the title well. This year, the Argentinian…
Although I think of myself primarily as a writer, and I’ve written films, I’ve never directed a film. Most of…
Billy Bob Thornton is a man who has lived many lives throughout his long, consistently intriguing career. The star of…
In his groundbreaking documentaries, Errol Morris has tackled pet cemeteries (Gates of Heaven), the torture of suspected terrorists at Abu…
Wim Wenders is known for his poetic and emotional films, like 1984’s Palme d’Or-winning Paris, Texas and 1987’s Wings of…
Michael Ballhaus, ASC is an indisputable cinematography great. As a key collaborator for directors such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Martin…
Three short, sweet points of advice from the master English director Ken Loach. 1. You can’t be fatalistic. You can’t…
Brad Gann is the writer and director Black Irish, the 2007 film starring Brendan Gleason and Melissa Leo. MovieMaker interviewed…
Daniel Pyne is a director, producer, novelist, and the prolific screenwriter behind Hollywood hits like Any Given Sunday (1999), The Sum…