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On the Idiosyncratic Pleasures of Billy Wilder’s The Front Page

Jim Hemphill celebrates the directing great's underappreciated 1974 remake, a film which arguably resonates even more strongly today.

May 21, 2021

Navigating Grief and Loss While Making My First Feature

Zeshawn Ali on how the passing of his father while making his debut film, Two Gods, shaped the film into a meditation on death and renewal.

May 19, 2021

Finding My Voice as a Gay Asian Immigrant Filmmaker – and Giving Voice to Others

Devin Fei-Fan Tau on the long life journey that brought him to making his new, George Takei-narrated documentary, Who's on Top?

May 18, 2021

Three Great Things: Courtney Parchman

The comedian and actor, who stars in the new comedy-drama The Get Together, shares the things that have been brightening her days recently.

May 14, 2021

A Nation of Traumatized Youth: From Newtown to Parkland and Beyond

Kim A. Snyder, director of Newtown and the new doc Us Kids, looks back on eight years documenting school shootings and gun trauma.

May 12, 2021

Who is Take Out Girl? Or, How I Found a Way to Show Vulnerability and Accept Myself Through My First Feature

For Take Out Girl’s writer-star Hedy Wong, her feelings toward her on-screen alter ego Tera are complicated, to say the least.

May 11, 2021

How Horror Movies and Rave Culture Made Me the Filmmaker I Am Today

Undergods writer-director Chino Moya on the unusual childhood and adolescent experiences that shaped him and his work.

May 10, 2021

Three Great Things: Kelly Oxford

The best-selling author, whose directorial debut Pink Skies Ahead airs tomorrow night on MTV, on what sparks joy for her.

May 7, 2021

Three Great Things: Eli Saslow

The Pulitzer-winning journalist, who wrote the screenplay for the new film Four Good Days, shares what has given him joy recently.

May 6, 2021

Jeff Baena’s Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie

The man behind Showtime's new anthology show Cinema Toast spent 12 years creating the best cookie in the world. Now you can make it yourself.

May 5, 2021

Three Great Things: Jeff Baena

The writer-director, whose found-footage anthology series Cinema Toast just hit Showtime, shares some of the things that bring him joy in life.

May 5, 2021

From One (Great) Man to Another: Darius Marder and the Story of Sound of Metal

Shannon Plumb on how her friend and fellow filmmaker came to make his acclaimed, double Oscar-winning drama.

May 4, 2021