Film
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...).
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.
Cinema of the Interior
For Isabel Sandoval — an Independent Spirit Award nominee for Lingua Franca — cinema, like all art, is an emotional experience.
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.











