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Adam Sandler’s “Carte Blanche” Freedom and the Joy of Sandy Wexler

Jim Hemphill celebrates the creative expansion the polarizing comedian's new Netflix film has afforded him.

May 8, 2017

A Letter From the Editors: May 2017

This month, we're thinking about Leonard Cohen, (re)birth, falling in reverse, and other forms of moving on/letting go.

May 5, 2017

Chris Gethard Talks with Todd Barry for the Talkhouse Film Podcast

Two of the funniest comedians around sit down at the Sonos store in NYC for a hilarious and unpredictable conversation.

Southern Discomfort, Or What I Learned About Queerness and Telling Other People’s Stories

Donal Mosher breaks down his experiences making – and then screening – a documentary short about Eureka Springs, an LGBT haven in the Bible Belt.

May 3, 2017

The ’70s Seen: Irvin Kershner’s Loving and Up the Sandbox

Steve Lippman continues his new column on '70s cinema with a look at two N.Y.C portraits by one of the era's most underappreciated directors.

May 2, 2017

Video Essay: Falling in Reverse

What happens if you take one of cinema's most recognizable tropes, and then turn it upside down?

May 1, 2017

Talkhouse Film Contributors Remember Jonathan Demme

Allison Anders, Charlie McDowell, John Krokidas and more pay tribute to the late Oscar-winning director of The Silence of the Lambs.

How Being Called a “Female Filmmaker” Helped Me Understand the Future of Cinema

The director of the forthcoming Below Her Mouth on how the press' recent focus on her gender made her newly consider the female gaze.

April 26, 2017

Me and My Mentors: David Fincher, George Kuchar, Curtis Harrington and Tony Conrad

The director of the new documentary Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present recalls the major figures who helped shape his career.

April 25, 2017

Video Essay: She’s All That and the Power of Transformation

Talkhouse Film's senior video essayist Kentucker Audley highlights the pleasures (and faults!) of yet another classic movie

April 24, 2017

Why People Need to Stop Thinking Reshoots Are a Bad Thing

Adam Leon on why additional photography (which he used on his new movie, Tramps) is not a sign a film is in trouble, but exactly the opposite.

April 21, 2017

Escaping Escapism, Or How Political Movies Helped Me Find Hope Again

The Seattle-based writer-director fights her post-election malaise by watching everything from A Face in the Crowd to Falling Down.

April 20, 2017