Film
Chad Hartigan (This is Martin Bonner) Talks Discovering His True Self Through Jim Carrey and Meet Joe Black
How Martin Brest's misunderstood masterpiece helped a goofball teenager find love, and his identity.
William Dickerson (Detour) Talks Paul Haggis and David Simon’s Show Me A Hero
A Yonkers-raised filmmaker steps back to look at the miniseries about the housing controversy in which his own father was involved.
Benny Safdie (Heaven Knows What) Talks Alex Gibney’s Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
The prolific documentarian's latest seems more interested in dismantling the late Apple guru's reputation than providing true insight into his life.
Jeff Reichert (Remote Area Medical) Talks Maíra Bühler and Matias Mariani’s I Touched All Your Stuff
A documentary shuns the cinematic in favor of desktop exploration, and favors ambiguity over clearly defined truth.
Kazik Radwanski (Tower) Talks Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth
The new collaboration between Perry and actress Elisabeth Moss joins the canon of great films that chronicle the downfall of a female heroine.
Bruce LaBruce (Gerontophilia) Talks Anna Muylaert’s The Second Mother
The latest in the genre of maid movies is a sweet-natured addition, and much more straightforward and less perverse than others of its ilk.
Brian Trenchard-Smith (BMX Bandits) Talks the Unique Ingenuity of the Stones… the Other Stones.
A master low-budget filmmaker celebrates the work of Andrew and Virginia Stone, the B-movie world's answer to Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reville.
Producer Sierra Pettengill (Cutie and the Boxer) Talks J.P. Sniadecki’s The Iron Ministry
For this aviophobic filmmaker, a documentary about the railway in the People's Republic of China is both giddily transcendent and personally resonant.
Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze) Talks François Simard, Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell’s Turbo Kid
This '80s retro teen flick by the so-called Roadkill Superstars collective prompts major flashbacks for a filmmaker raised on a diet of VHS.
Milcho Manchevski (Before the Rain) Talks Jonas Alexander Arnby’s When Animals Dream
A spare coming-of-age horror movie that doesn't want to be a horror movie but doesn't dig deep into its characters. What is one to think?
Emily Hagins (Grow Up, Tony Phillips) Talks Paul Weitz’s Grandma
Watching this new Sundance drama prompts a discussion of the issues around men making films about and aimed at women, and vice versa.
Actress and Songwriter Eszter Balint (Stranger Than Paradise) Talks Hubert Sauper’s We Come as Friends
A downtown NYC-based actress-singer-songwriter type is bowled over by this very human portrait of contemporary postcolonial Africa.












