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Best of 2025: Park Chan-wook (No Other Choice) on Discovering Yasujirō Ozu’s Tokyo Twilight and Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Neighboring Sounds

The South Korean auteur, whose new film No Other Choice is out this week, looks back on his moviewatching from the past 12 months.

December 22, 2025

Best of 2025: Kaouther Ben Hania (The Voice of Hind Rajab) on The President’s Cake and The Penguin

The Tunisian filmmaker, whose new Oscar-shortlisted feature is out now, shares the highlights of what she watched in the past 12 months.

December 19, 2025

Nobody’s Ever Asked Me That: Sarah Sherman

The Saturday Night Live star, whose special Sarah Squirm: Live + in the Flesh is out now, does not shy away from the big questions.

Best of 2025: Bi Gan (Resurrection) on Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice, Joseph Kosinski’s F1 and Jia Zhangke’s Caught By the Tides

The visionary Chinese auteur, whose new movie is out now in theaters, looks back on his year in moviegoing.

December 16, 2025

Best of 2025: Hailey Benton Gates (Atropia) on Charlie Shackleton’s Zodiac Killer Project

The writer-director of Sundance Grand Jury winner Atropia, which is in theaters now, on her favorite film of the past year.

December 12, 2025

Say Yes, a Lot

Evan Mathis on the unique experience of directing The Hemingway with his friend Patrick Sean O'Brien, who's been battling ALS for 20 years.

December 12, 2025

How to Bribe a Priest, and All the Illegal Things We Had to Do to Make Our Series

Walker Kalan on the lengths he and co-creator/star Camille Trust had to go to while making their indie web series I Need Your Love.

December 11, 2025

A Life in Movies: From Eat, Drink, Man, Woman to Rosemead

Rosemead screenwriter Marilyn Fu retraces her life in relation to Ang Lee and his work, culminating in her meeting him last month in Taiwan.

December 9, 2025

A Playground Where Everything and Everyone is Free

Documentary director Marie Losier, whose new film Peaches Goes Bananas is out today, on the joyous art she creates away from cinema.

December 3, 2025

Remembering Sally

Writer-director Xaque Gruber on his best friend, the late Sally Kirkland, who was the subject and star of his debut feature, Sallywood.

December 2, 2025

Three Great Things: Cooper Raiff

The writer-director-star of Hal & Harper, which is now streaming on Mubi, on the romantics, John Dufresne and Zion National Park.

November 24, 2025

The Music of Plainclothes

Writer-director Carmen Emmi on the songs and artists that shaped him and his award-winning debut feature, which is out now on digital.

November 21, 2025