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Always Bet on Yourself

Funny Story's writer-director Michael Gallagher on how his approach of taking risks and always looking ahead got him to where he is today.

May 23, 2019

My Favorite Car is a Bicycle, or Why I Must Create Things vs. Making Them

The Lunchbox writer-director Ritesh Batra writes you a letter about why he went back to his artistic roots for his new film, Photograph.

May 17, 2019

Sketch in Time

Tell It to the Bees director Annabel Jankel takes a gif-laden, stream-of-consciousness journey through her illustrious career.

May 3, 2019

Naked and Barefoot in the Snow: A Day on Darlin’

Pollyanna McIntosh, best known as Jadis from The Walking Dead, shares an indelible experience making her debut feature as writer-director.

The Very Long, Dark and Strange Journey to Directing My First Feature

Veteran producer Ant Timpson on how his parents' respective deaths coincided with his decision to end — and then restart — his directing career.

April 23, 2019

How I Set Out in Search of a Cinematic Mystery – and Found Myself

Pamela B. Green on rewriting early film history and her transformative experience making Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché.

April 19, 2019

“You Have So Much Ahead”: A Few Words About Aki Kaurismäki

Azazel Jacobs shares a short appreciation of the beloved Finnish writer-director, who is being celebrated with a retrospective at NYC's Metrograph.

March 28, 2019

Karen Gillan Talks with James Roday for the Talkhouse Podcast

The two multihyphenate actors sit down to discuss Roday's new horror movie, Treehouse, Highland cows, The Rock, crying on screen and more.

March 7, 2019

The Movies I Haven’t Made

Writer-director Neil Jordan, returning with Greta, his first film in six years, looks back on some projects that never quite came to fruition.

February 28, 2019

All I Really Wanted To Do Was Direct

In the 1980s, Patrick's Mandie Fletcher became the sole female comedy director at the BBC. Here she shares some of her journey.

February 11, 2019

Catherine Hardwicke’s Gender Report Card on Hollywood in 2019

In the wake of #MeToo and #TimesUp, the director of the new thriller Miss Bala takes stock of where the film industry is at.

January 31, 2019

What I Learned Working on Black Swan

Jon Kauffman's dream job working under his favorite filmmaker, Darren Aronofsky, directly affected how he shaped his debut feature, Heartlock.

January 25, 2019