coronavirus
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.











