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Three Great Things: Alex Ross Perry

The NYC indie stalwart, whose new documentary Videoheaven opens tomorrow, on cycling, tourism and baking pizzas with his daughter.

July 1, 2025

reRunning Happy Life

The day his new movie Project Space 13 is released, Michael M. Bilandic looks back on the quirky microcinema that played his first film.

December 3, 2021

Revisited: How First Reformed’s Success Actually Points to a Dark Future for Independent Film

Her Smell’s writer-director breaks down the stark reality that film distribution today is an inequitable system that excludes almost everyone.

December 27, 2019

Writing Grunge Songs for Elisabeth Moss

Alicia Bognanno (Bully) on crafting the music of Her Smell's fictional band.

April 25, 2019

How First Reformed’s Success Actually Points to a Dark Future for Independent Film

Her Smell’s writer-director breaks down the stark reality that film distribution today is an inequitable system that excludes almost everyone.

April 10, 2019

The 2017 Talkies: Talkhouse Film Contributors’ Top Films of the Year

Talkhouse Film contributors' favorite films of the year, with special contributions by Aisha Tyler, Bret Easton Ellis, Alex Ross Perry and more.

January 9, 2018

The 2016 Talkies: Talkhouse Film Contributors Share Their Top 10 Movies of the Year

The poll ballots of more than 50 filmmakers, including James Marsh, Alex Ross Perry and Terence Nance, who voted for their favorite movies of 2016.

January 6, 2017

How The Neon Demon’s “Failure” Reveals a Major Problem in Indie Film

Alex Ross Perry on Nicolas Winding Refn's masterpiece, and what it bombing at the box office says about the state of independent film.

December 30, 2016

Why We Must Rethink the Metrics of Success (When Even Stranger Things Can’t Rescue a Film from Obscurity)

Alex Ross Perry ponders the problems caused by the non-disclosure of digital film sales numbers and the inability of movies to stand out on VOD.

October 7, 2016

How The Neon Demon’s “Failure” Reveals a Major Problem in Indie Film

Alex Ross Perry on Nicolas Winding Refn's masterpiece, and what it bombing at the box office says about the state of independent film.

July 8, 2016

This Pseudo-Documentary about “Non-Reading Lesbian” Dennis Hopper is the First Half of a Great Lost Double Bill

Alex Ross Perry talks Lawrence Schiller and L.M. Kit Carson's 'The American Dreamer' (and its companion piece, Hopper's masterpiece, 'The Last Movie')

February 8, 2016

Alex Ross Perry (Queen of Earth) Talks Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno

After more than half a decade away, the Splat Pack director returns with a disgusting, vile, morally dubious cannibal movie. Yes, it's that good.

September 23, 2015