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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.

January 6, 2021

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.

January 5, 2021

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.

December 31, 2020

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.

December 30, 2020

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.

December 29, 2020

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.

December 28, 2020

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.

December 25, 2020

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.

December 24, 2020

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.

December 23, 2020

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.

December 22, 2020

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.

December 21, 2020