Three Great Things is Talkhouse’s series in which artists tell us about three things they absolutely love. To mark the release of Dark Waters, his real-life legal drama starring Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway about a corporate lawyer who sues Dupont for poisoning the residents of a small West Virginia town, writer-director Todd Haynes shared […]
A few years ago I became obsessed with the writings of Patricia Highsmith. I think it began when I caught the ending of Anthony Minghella’s terrific film The Talented Mr. Ripley on Turner Classics and bought a copy of the novel to see what I had missed. I quickly learned that the movie had cleaned […]
Probably about eight years ago outside a Miracle Sweepstakes show in Williamsburg, the guys we knew in the other band declared that KISS was the only true New York rock group, I think to prove that a) KISS ruled, and b) New Jersey, where they were from, had a richer musical history.I reeled off obvious […]
I just made my first (extremely) low-budget feature film, Summer Solstice, which follows two best friends from college, trans man Leo and cisgender (non-trans) and straight Eleanor, during an impromptu weekend trip during which they uncover the uncomfortable truths of how their friendship has changed, and the ways they may no longer fit into each […]
Late last year, Talkhouse Film contributors and a select few friends of the site voted on their favorite theatrical releases of 2021; the aggregated results will be published on Talkhouse tomorrow. Below are ballots from a selection of the filmmakers who took part in the voting process.Vashti Anderson 1. Judas and the Black Messiah dir. […]
This article below was written in 2017 about Peace in the Valley, the short film that became The Gospel of Eureka. It deals with negotiating the difference between our vision of the Eureka community and the community’s vision of itself. These differences were very much on our minds as we went forward with The Gospel […]
In general I think it’s a little uncouth to acknowledge reviews—I feel like it makes the music industry’s snake-and-tail buffet a little too obvious to bear. However, I found Girlpool bassist Harmony Tividad’s review of the new record by my band, Ought, so charming and disarming, so much like how I feel when I’ve drunk too […]
There’s a very powerful, melancholy American narrative that says you can never really go home again, that all the changes wrought upon you by leaving will alienate you when you return. I believe in this story. I relied on it, in fact, when I fled the South as gay-bashed teen. Alienation seemed preferable to being […]
My first feature film, I Am Michael, is based on the true story of Michael Glatze, an anti-Christian gay rights activist who becomes an anti-gay Christian pastor. Inspired by the New York Times Magazine article “My Ex-Gay Friend” by Benoit Denizet-Lewis, Michael’s story left me floored, confused and fascinated. Most of all, it left me […]
