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How Making Trans in Trumpland Changed My Perception of the Transgender Experience

Iranian-American trans filmmaker Tony Zosherafatain on how his perspective shifted while making his timely new docuseries for Topic.

February 23, 2021

On the Virtues of Cinematic Failure

PVT Chat's writer-director Ben Hozie on what he learned making his first two features, neither of which have ever seen the light of day.

February 22, 2021

Flock of the Lambs: The Legacy of The Silence of the Lambs at 30

Kevin Smokler, director of the documentary Vinyl Nation, looks at the cultural impact of Jonathan Demme's Oscar-winning classic.

February 19, 2021

What I Learned From Being Geralt of Rivia

Crestone director Marnie Ellen Hertzler on the best movie she saw in 2020 — The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, a video game from 2015.

February 18, 2021

Three Great Things: Jillian Bell

The actress, currently starring in the drama Cowboys, shares a TV show, movie and book that have made her life better and more meaningful.

February 17, 2021

The Greatest Romantic Comedy of All Time is a Porn Movie called The Opening of Misty Beethoven

Gillian Wallace Horvat, the writer-director-star of the dark satire I Blame Society, makes the case for Radley Metzger's 1970s classic.

February 16, 2021

What a Feminist, Anti-Colonial Science Lab Taught Me About Ethical Filmmaking

Filmmaker Noah Hutton on how he was inspired to create a handbook so that the making of his new film Lapsis adhered to the values it upheld.

February 12, 2021

Between Young and Old

Shannon Plumb talks film, aging and the pandemic with her friend Azazel Jacobs, whose latest movie, French Exit, opens in theaters this week.

February 11, 2021

Three Great Things: Tahar Rahim

The Golden Globe-nominated star of The Mauritanian on some of his favorite things (two of which he can't do because Paris is in lockdown ...).

February 10, 2021

How I Spent Seven Years Single-handedly Making a Demonic Thriller – and Accidentally Uncovered My Family’s Dark History

Jordan Graham, the writer-director (and pretty much everything else) of Sator shares the remarkable story of making his debut movie.

February 9, 2021

Cinema of the Interior

For Isabel Sandoval — an Independent Spirit Award nominee for Lingua Franca — cinema, like all art, is an emotional experience.

February 8, 2021

Death, Myth and Dreaming in Wuthering Heights

The Wanting Mare writer-director Nicholas Ashe Bateman pays tribute to a late friend through his meditation on Emily Brontë’s eternal classic.

February 5, 2021