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Short Film Premiere: This is No Time

Talkhouse contributor Victoria Negri shares her latest work, a short film shot while she was sheltering in place at her childhood home in Connecticut.

June 10, 2020

Video Essay: Modern Horror

In the second part of his Driftless Significance video essay series, Benjamin Shearn looks at horror's departure from its classical roots.

June 9, 2020

Say Her Name

Actress and producer Jasmine Batchelor recounts the emotional experience of attending a memorial for George Floyd, and its haunting aftermath.

June 8, 2020

How I Nearly Died Making My New Movie

Director Jason Wise recalls a fateful day shooting his new documentary about sea-urchin divers, The Delicacy.

June 1, 2020

The Way We Get By: Josephine Decker Takes Us on a Poetry Walk

The director, whose new film Shirley is out this week, guides us through favorite works by Wallace Stevens, Rainer Maria Rilke and more.

June 1, 2020

Have Faith in Robocop

Storyteller and standup comedian Jeff Simmermon charts the integral role that Paul Verhoeven's 1987 classic has played in his personal life.

May 29, 2020

Video Essay: Indecent Proposal — Would You Do It?

Kentucker Audley unearths his "lost" video essay about the 1993 drama, which he created in 2017 but is only now sharing with the world.

May 28, 2020

Anna Roisman Tackles Her Most Challenging Quarantine Reboot Yet with The Notebook

The regular Talkhouse contributor and her boyfriend have been killing time during the lockdown making movie magic ... in their shower.

May 27, 2020

The Way We Get By: Barry Sonnenfeld Thinks You Should Watch Some Screwball Comedies

The director, whose book Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker is out now, prescribes more laughter in our lives.

May 27, 2020

When the Dream Houses Go Dark

Jay Giampietro photographs the shuttered movie theaters of New York, and looks back on 25 years of filmgoing memories in the city.

May 26, 2020

My Father, the Sea Urchin Diver

Filmmaker Morgan Maassen looks at the impact of coronavirus on his father, Jeff Maassen, who he profiled for Vimeo's Stories in Place series.

May 22, 2020

Memories of Werner

Micah Van Hove looks back on an unforgettable 10 days in Peru at Werner Herzog's filmmaking workshop in the Amazonian jungle.

May 20, 2020