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BAMcinemaFest Takeover: John Magary (The Mend) Talks Mike Judge’s Silicon Valley

Were it not for its boyish, entrepreneurial spirit, Silicon Valley might be too depressing to bear.

June 24, 2014

BAMcinemaFest Takeover: Mike Cahill (I Origins) Talks James Ward Byrkit’s Coherence

Set on the night of the passing of Miller's Comet, Coherence is about a dinner party for a group of eight friends...

BAMcinemaFest Takeover: Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (Ellie Lumme) Talks Moving From Film Critic to Filmmaker

Before I became a critic, I made small, gutless films in which nothing really happened, most of which no one will ever see...

BAMcinemaFest Takeover: Zachary Wigon (The Heart Machine) Talks Lav Diaz’s Norte, the End of History

One of the great paradoxes – and ironies – of cinema is that, despite the fact that the medium is built around...

June 20, 2014

BAMcinemaFest Takeover: Lawrence Michael Levine (Wild Canaries) Talks Joanna Hogg’s Exhibition

Watching Joanna Hogg's new film, Exhibition, I was reminded of the pioneering landscape work of the artist Robert Irwin...

Actor/Screenwriter Randy Russell Talks Jan Ole Gerster’s A Coffee in Berlin

7:59 a.m. (All times are approximate.) (Soon-to-be-ex-) girlfriend’s place. Every day is like every other day, except for the ones that aren’t...

June 18, 2014

Lloyd Kaufman (The Toxic Avenger) Talks Bobcat Goldthwait’s Willow Creek

A Generational Dispute Erupts Between Troma President Lloyd Kaufman and Troma Student Enterprise Observer Jaime Meyers...

June 17, 2014

David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints) Talks David Michôd’s The Rover

I’ve been obsessing a bit over the fact that David Michôd’s new film, The Rover, takes place in the future. “10 Years After the Collapse”...

June 16, 2014

Todd Rohal (The Catechism Cataclysm) Talks the Greatest Comedy Director Who Never Made a Film

I had already consumed healthy doses of Pee-wee's Big Adventure, True Stories, Airplane and Strange Brew ...

June 14, 2014

Chad Hartigan (This is Martin Bonner) Talks Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s 22 Jump Street

I am, almost on principle, not interested in sequels. That wasn’t always the case, of course. When I was a teenager, I would dutifully go...

June 13, 2014

Jonathan Lisecki (Gayby) Talks Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past

X-Men: Days of Future Past has been out for less than three weeks and has already made over $600 million worldwide...

June 12, 2014

Screenwriter Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith (Legally Blonde) Talks Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child

Where has Jenny Slate been all my life? Turns out, for the last few years she’s been doing great, steady work as a supporting actress on shows...

June 11, 2014