Film
BAMcinemaFest Takeover: Patrick Wang (The Grief of Others) Talks Jonathan Demme’s A Master Builder
A piece of classic theater is reimagined by longtime collaborators, and reframed by a stunning new acting talent.
BAMcinemaFest Takeover: Stephen Cone (Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party) Talks David Gordon Green’s Manglehorn
A filmmaker who has found the perfect balance between stylistic and character-driven elements elicits the latest great Al Pacino performance.
BAMcinemaFest Takeover: Stephen Winter (Jason and Shirley) Talks Lou Howe’s Gabriel
A film about a troubled, lost young man finds a deep resonance for a writer-director who himself had times of struggle.
BAMcinemaFest Takeover: Trey Edward Shults (Krisha) Talks Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s The Tribe
What do you do if you're in a post-Cannes funk? Well, watching a truly great piece of cinema can prove the perfect pick-me-up.
Reinaldo Marcus Green (Stone Cars) Talks How His Father Taught Him Filmmaking Through Life Lessons
On Father's Day weekend, a director looks back on how his father (unwittingly) gave him and his brother the tools to fulfill their creative dreams.
Jim Strouse (People, Places, Things) Talks Patrick Brice’s The Overnight
What if a 21st-century sex comedy could be smart as well as bawdy, have well-drawn adult characters as well as dick jokes?
Emily Hagins (Grow Up, Tony Phillips) Talks Andrew Disney’s Balls Out
As indie comedies are becoming increasingly bland, this one stands out from the crowd by being a studio-style spoof.
Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
In which the author fulfills his responsibility to respond to the film by combining well-reasoned observations with an extended ice cream metaphor.
Joe Lynch (Everly) Talks Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World
Returning to Isla Nublar once again, a film fanatic turned film director goes in search of moments of movie magic, and his inner child.
Lou Howe (Gabriel) Talks Sophie Barthes’ Madame Bovary
The latest take on Flaubert's classic prompts a filmmaker working on his second feature to ponder the pluses and perils of the adaptation process.
Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant) Talks the Actor/Director Relationship and the Rewards of Collaboration
Fittingly, this piece on filmmaking and communal creativity is itself an act of collaboration between writer and editor.
Ned Benson (The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby) Talks Crystal Moselle’s The Wolfpack
The Sundance 2015 Grand Jury Prize-winning doc is a sensitive portrait of a unique group of brothers and the movies' impact on their lives.












