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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.

March 3, 2021

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.

March 2, 2021

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 ...

March 1, 2021

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.

February 26, 2021

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.

February 25, 2021

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.

February 24, 2021

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.

February 23, 2021

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.

February 22, 2021

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.

February 19, 2021

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.

February 18, 2021

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.

February 17, 2021

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.

February 16, 2021