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Rick Alverson (Entertainment) Talks Nathan Silver’s Stinking Heaven

Shot on an old broadcast camera and featuring addicts' recreations, Silver's film occupies an alive, unsettling space between the false and the real.

December 7, 2015

Exclusive Book Extract: Nicholas Hytner’s Foreword to The Lady in the Van: The Screenplay by Alan Bennett

The esteemed British director discusses his ongoing creative relationship with Bennett, and the real-life figure behind their latest collaboration.

December 5, 2015

Aaron Stewart-Ahn Talks Ryan Coogler’s Creed

This miraculous continuation and reimagining of one of the great cinematic sagas marks a significant moment in American filmmaking.

December 4, 2015

David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints) Talks Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth

The latest cinematic version of The Scottish Play is a slowed-down, amped-up overpowering tapestry that wields much power beyond the Bard's language.

December 3, 2015

Actor/Screenwriter Randy Russell Talks Charles Poekel’s Christmas, Again

A holiday movie about a heartbroken Christmas tree salesman finds beauty and even hope in the melancholy.

December 2, 2015

Nathan Silver (Stinking Heaven) Talks Bertrand Bonello’s On War

Preparing to embark on two new projects, a filmmaker looks to a new movie by a great French director for ideas he can steal for his own work.

December 1, 2015

Eugene Kotlyarenko (A Wonderful Cloud) Talks Peter Sohn’s The Good Dinosaur

When ISIS is all over the news and it's been a bad year for dinosaur movies and you need a sentimental reminder to call your mother...

November 30, 2015

Jim Hemphill (The Trouble with the Truth) Talks Wim Wenders’ The End of Violence

A film that was a critical and financial disappointment two decades ago now appears a startlingly prescient commentary on the U.S and Hollywood.

November 25, 2015

Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) Talks Todd Haynes’ Carol

A recent convert to the fiction of Patricia Highsmith is transported back to his past by a spot-on adaptation of her once-scandalous second novel.

November 24, 2015

Clay Liford (Wuss) Talks Ryan Wise’s I Am Thor

Sometimes you laugh at the documentary about the aging rocker attempting a comeback. And sometimes you also relate. A lot.

November 23, 2015

Stephen Cone (Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party) Talks His Favorite Thanksgiving Movie, Home for the Holidays

Two decades after its theatrical release, a filmmaker looks back on a movie that changed how he saw cinema, and himself.

November 21, 2015

Nelson George (A Ballerina’s Tale) Talks Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman’s Sembene!

A documentary on the revolutionary African director prompts a longtime champion to look back on his work.