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The Uplifting Grace of Horror

Swallow’s writer-director Carlo Mirabella-Davis charts his journey from perpetually terrified child to maker of psychological horror movies.

Kelly Reichardt Talks with Olivier Assayas for the Talkhouse Podcast

Two of the great auteurs of world cinema sit down in conversation for the very first time.

March 5, 2020

How To Escape the Endings Trap (Maybe)

Twice Oscar-nominated screenwriter William Nicholson ponders the endings, Watchmen and his latest film as director, Hope Gap.

March 4, 2020

My Eating Disorder Story

While directing his debut feature, Saint Frances, Alex Thompson started to look differently at how he ate and exercised.

March 2, 2020

A Different Kind of Black Cinema

Premature’s Rashaad Ernesto Green on why telling a young black love story was a radical act.

February 28, 2020

Get Out of the Fuckin’ Office and See the World

Writer-director Andrew Heckler treats filmmaking like an investigative journalist, starting with his new movie Burden.

February 28, 2020

Maria Bamford Talks with Chris Gethard for the Talkhouse Podcast

The minds behind What's Your Ailment? and Career Suicide sit down for a chat about mental health, comedy and quitting showbiz.

February 27, 2020

Maybe It’s Time to Give Up

The hard road James Sweeney traveled to make his debut feature Straight Up is not necessarily one that everyone will survive.

February 27, 2020

How Portrait of a Lady on Fire Radically Reimagines the Past

Filmmaker Cosmo Collins Salovaara on Céline Sciamma's revolutionary lesbian period piece, which presents a very contemporary take on the 18th century.

February 26, 2020

Making Amends

Writer-director-actor Melissa Stephens on the very personal motivation that drove her to make her new short film, Travis.

February 25, 2020

Loving Movies in the Age of #MeToo

Producer Marie Therese Guirgis on her recent struggles to both be a serious cinephile and stay true to her feminist principles.

February 21, 2020

Journey Back to My Father

Filmmaker Sacha Jenkins on the long-lost, newly restored Cane River, which his father Horace completed just months before his death in 1982.

February 20, 2020