Film
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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.
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).











