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Love the Thing That It’s Doing

Terence Nance looks back at his experiences at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and has much to ponder on ...

September 26, 2025

Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks F. Gary Gray’s Straight Outta Compton

A rap response to the box-office hit biopic about N.W.A.’s cultural ascent.

August 21, 2015

Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks Ryan Gosling’s Lost River

From the email archives of the auteur Terence Nance, a few constructive notes on a cut of a movie prior to its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival...

April 15, 2015

Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s What We Do in the Shadows

Two Kiwi comic geniuses mash up Christopher Guest and the vampire genre to create a cinematic sitcom about the bourgeois undead.

February 13, 2015

Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel

A letter from one filmmaker to another, suggesting an ongoing tutelage and mentorship that would take the form of a letter-writing exchange.

January 12, 2015

Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks Jeremy Xido’s Death Metal Angola

The traumatic aftermath of colonial rule is explored in this vérité documentary about an Angolan orphanage and the rock concerts it organizes.

November 12, 2014