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Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) Talks with Eliza Hittman (Beach Rats) for the Talkhouse Podcast

Two of the earliest contributors to Talkhouse Film sit down for a chat on the opening weekend of Hittman's new movie, Beach Rats.

Coppola Just Premiered The Cotton Club Encore — and It’s a Masterpiece

Jim Hemphill, just back from the Telluride Film Festival, reports on the revelatory new version of one of the great director's most troubled movies.

September 6, 2017

“Genital Warts and All”: Bruce LaBruce on Taxi Zum Klo

In advance of the film's Metrograph screening this Friday, Bruce LaBruce revisits Frank Ripploh's 1980 gay classic.

September 5, 2017

Why I Stopped Making Jokes About Actors

Stand-up comedian Heather Turman on how writing and performing in the movie Stuck changed her perspective on the thespian profession.

September 1, 2017

Video Essay: Blade Runner 2049‘s Denis Villeneuve and the Silent Close-Up

In anticipation of the biggest film of Villeneuve's career so far, a look at his most striking visual trademark.

August 30, 2017

Rob Corddry Talks with Lake Bell (I Do … Until I Don’t) for the Talkhouse Podcast

The writer-director-star of I Do ... Until I Don't sits down for a chat with one of her best (and funniest) friends.

“Everybody Dies Frustrated and Sad and That is Beautiful,” or How Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali Helped Me Through a Shitty Time

Writer, director and animator Jack Dunphy on the curious resonance of Apu Trilogy in the wake of his father's death.

August 28, 2017

Trash Cinema, Hardcore (Art) Porn and the Big, Gross Mess We Live In

Zach Clark on the Quad's new season, Erotic City, and a handful of the films that helped him stop worrying and love smut.

August 25, 2017

Second Screen: Why Madam Secretary is the Best Political TV Show Ever

Jim Hemphill enumerates the many ways in which he loves the series which has finally provided Téa Leoni with the role she deserves.

August 24, 2017

Marjorie Prime and Memories of My Father (Still-Living)

Shannon Plumb pens a beautiful, idiosyncratic response to Michael Almereyda's movie about love, death and memory.

August 23, 2017

Seth Meyers Talks with Senator Al Franken for the Talkhouse Podcast

The two friends and former SNL stalwarts sit down for a conversation about politics that is as important as it is hilarious.

August 22, 2017

Vimeodrome, Or How I Broke (and Healed) My Brain Online

Filmmaker Chris Osborn on the profound effect — both personally and professionally — that working the graveyard shift at Vimeo had on him.

August 21, 2017