Film
The 2020 Talkies: Talkhouse Film Contributors Share Their Top 10 Movies of the Year
A selection of poll ballots from filmmakers, including David Dastmalchian, Katherine Dieckmann and Alex Ross Perry, choosing their best of 2020.
Find Your Creative Passion and Follow It
This is Us star and Joseph the Spouse lead singer Chris Sullivan on how artistic expression and finding true purpose has shaped his life.
Remote Control: How the World’s Youngest Voting Evangelist Came to Be
Filmmaker Katherine Fairfax Wright on the memorable experience of making election ads with six-year-old motivational speaker Caleb Stewart.
Revisited: The Way We Get By: Jim Gaffigan is Getting Back to His Gardening Roots
The comedian and actor opens up about his green-fingered life during coronavirus.
Revisited: The Way We Get By: Abel Ferrara on the Films of John Cassavetes
Under lockdown in Rome, the director of Bad Lieutenant and Driller Killer looks to the works of a legendary auteur as a form of escape.
Revisited: Derek Cianfrance in Quarantine Finishing I Know This Much Is True
Under lockdown, filmmaker Shannon Plumb talks to her husband Derek Cianfrance as he completes his new HBO show with Mark Ruffalo.
Revisited: What I Learned Working with Terrence Malick
Henry Butash reflects on how his time on three films by the master affected his own directorial debut, The Atlantic City Story.
Revisited: I Guess a 30-Year-Old Beastie Boys Record Is My Best Friend Now?
Writer and comedian Josh Gondelman on his deep love of Paul's Boutique, an NYC album that has added resonance during the pandemic.
Revisited: Darren Aronofsky Talks with Alejandro Jodorowsky (Psychomagic: A Healing Art) for the Talkhouse Podcast
From NYC and Paris, two of the finest filmmakers alive reunite to talk Psychomagic: A Healing Art, the pandemic, art, philosophy and much more.
My Beloved Teachers
The Iranian director of Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness looks back on his cinematic journey, and the attempt to find closure with his new film.
Best of 2020: John Patrick Shanley on The Queen’s Gambit and Portrait of a Woman on Fire
The writer-director of Wild Mountain Thyme, out now starring Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan, discusses his top TV show and film of the past year.
Anna Roisman Caps Off 2020 with Her Best Pandemic Parody So Far
Talkhouse's queen of the shot-for-shot parody gives David Fincher a run for his money with her riff on the classic final scene in Se7en.











