Film
Dangerous Business: On Loving Elaine May and Ishtar
Canadian filmmaker Mark Cira traces his long, complicated relationship with May's famously derided comedy back to his anarchist teen years.
Of Duct Tape, Dreams and a Guy in Walpole
Dante Bellini, director of Ken Burns: Here & There, on how the documentary icon helped him make a late-career leap to filmmaking.
The Girls of Kaali Khuhi
When writer-director Terrie Samundra made her feature debut, she ignored the age-old adage about not working with children and animals ...
A Man Doing the Most Basic Thing, Breathing
Filmmaker and artist David Shapiro shares journal entries from the making of his latest project, Untitled Pizza Movie, which is out this week.
Cinephile with Mark Borchardt: Clarice
In his ongoing animated review series, Mark Borchardt turns his attention to the small-screen spawn of an Oscar-winning classic.
What It’s Like Releasing a Racially Charged Movie about a Chinese Immigrant During COVID-19
Asian-Canadian writer-director Li Dong, whose debut feature, Stealing School, is out this week on VOD, gives his take on the current moment.
How Making Trans in Trumpland Changed My Perception of the Transgender Experience
Iranian-American trans filmmaker Tony Zosherafatain on how his perspective shifted while making his timely new docuseries for Topic.
On the Virtues of Cinematic Failure
PVT Chat's writer-director Ben Hozie on what he learned making his first two features, neither of which have ever seen the light of day.
Flock of the Lambs: The Legacy of The Silence of the Lambs at 30
Kevin Smokler, director of the documentary Vinyl Nation, looks at the cultural impact of Jonathan Demme's Oscar-winning classic.
What I Learned From Being Geralt of Rivia
Crestone director Marnie Ellen Hertzler on the best movie she saw in 2020 — The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, a video game from 2015.
Three Great Things: Jillian Bell
The actress, currently starring in the drama Cowboys, shares a TV show, movie and book that have made her life better and more meaningful.
The Greatest Romantic Comedy of All Time is a Porn Movie called The Opening of Misty Beethoven
Gillian Wallace Horvat, the writer-director-star of the dark satire I Blame Society, makes the case for Radley Metzger's 1970s classic.












