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James Marsh (The Theory of Everything) Talks John Maloof and Charlie Siskel’s Finding Vivian Maier

The director of an Oscar-winning documentary shares his thoughts on one of this year's non-fiction contenders.

February 20, 2015

Brea Grant (Best Friends Forever) Talks Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland’s Still Alice

A deeply personal look at this moving portrait of an Alzheimer's patient featuring an Oscar-nominated performance from Julianne Moore.

February 19, 2015

Jim Hemphill (The Trouble with the Truth) Talks Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper

A filmmaker who became a director because of Clint Eastwood considers the retired actor's latest effort behind the camera.

February 18, 2015

Barry Jenkins (Medicine for Melancholy) Talks Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Blending fantasy and reality, this soaring, star-studded success reveals a different side to the virtuosic Mexican master.

February 17, 2015

David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints) Talks Richard Linklater’s Boyhood

On a plane going to the other side of the world, the Texas filmmaker tries to Linklater's long-gestating masterpiece.

February 16, 2015

Jeff Reichert (Remote Area Medical) Talks the Best Documentary Oscar Contenders (and a Notable Absentee)

Pondering the disparate runners and riders in the Academy Awards non-fiction race, and what winning the statuette is supposed to mean.

February 14, 2015

Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s What We Do in the Shadows

Two Kiwi comic geniuses mash up Christopher Guest and the vampire genre to create a cinematic sitcom about the bourgeois undead.

February 13, 2015

Actor/Screenwriter Randy Russell Talks Marc Lawrence’s The Rewrite

A light-hearted love story featuring characters in their fifties -- could this be a post-rom-com? Or even a revisionist rom-com?

February 12, 2015

Zach Clark (White Reindeer) Talks Spike Lee’s Da Sweet Blood of Jesus

The iconoclastic director's "newest, hottest joint" was crowdfunded on Kickstarter but sourced from a '70s cult classic. Will the backers be happy?

February 11, 2015

Leah Shore (Old Man) Talks Mike Mitchell and Paul Tibbitt’s The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

The NYC-based animator and director paints a vivid picture of the new big screen outing for a TV toon favorite.

February 10, 2015

Film Composer Daniel Hart (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints) Talks Jody Lee Lipes’ Ballet 422

By showing rather than telling, this documentary about a brilliant emerging choreographer reveals the genesis of, and passion behind, a new ballet.

February 9, 2015

Caveh Zahedi (The Sheik and I) Talks Meeting Robert Bresson

In 1980s Paris, a young filmmaker meets one of the giants of world cinema (who asks him to please shut the door on his way out).

February 7, 2015