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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

Between Young and Old

Shannon Plumb talks film, aging and the pandemic with her friend Azazel Jacobs, whose latest movie, French Exit, opens in theaters this week.

February 11, 2021

What I Learned From the Pandemic

When COVID-19 forced Spoor director Agnieszka Holland to stop working, she paused to observe some truths about life and cinema.

January 27, 2021

How Do You Frame It?

Filmmaker Irina Varina looks back on, and tries to make sense of, the series of short films she made during pandemic-era 2020.

January 19, 2021

Revisited: The Way We Get By: Jim Gaffigan is Getting Back to His Gardening Roots

The comedian and actor opens up about his green-fingered life during coronavirus.

December 31, 2020

Revisited: The Way We Get By: Abel Ferrara on the Films of John Cassavetes

Under lockdown in Rome, the director of Bad Lieutenant and Driller Killer looks to the works of a legendary auteur as a form of escape.

December 30, 2020

Revisited: Derek Cianfrance in Quarantine Finishing I Know This Much Is True

Under lockdown, filmmaker Shannon Plumb talks to her husband Derek Cianfrance as he completes his new HBO show with Mark Ruffalo.

December 29, 2020

Revisited: I Guess a 30-Year-Old Beastie Boys Record Is My Best Friend Now?

Writer and comedian Josh Gondelman on his deep love of Paul's Boutique, an NYC album that has added resonance during the pandemic.

December 25, 2020

Revisited: Darren Aronofsky Talks with Alejandro Jodorowsky (Psychomagic: A Healing Art) for the Talkhouse Podcast

From NYC and Paris, two of the finest filmmakers alive reunite to talk Psychomagic: A Healing Art, the pandemic, art, philosophy and much more.

December 24, 2020

Anna Roisman Caps Off 2020 with Her Best Pandemic Parody So Far

Talkhouse's queen of the shot-for-shot parody gives David Fincher a run for his money with her riff on the classic final scene in Se7en.

December 21, 2020

The Year Stories Brought Us Together

Filmmaker Shannon Plumb looks back on what she watched and how she observed the world during the trauma and upheaval of 2020.

December 17, 2020

“It Fits Together, Like a Puzzle, to Make Something Bigger”: Matthew Caws and Mark Pellington in Conversation

Nada Surf’s lead singer and the acclaimed filmmaker discuss their recent collaboration on “Just Wait,” plus life, death, the pandemic and more.

December 7, 2020