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Kerthy Fix (Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields) Talks Paul Dugdale’s One Direction: Where We Are — The Concert Film

A trip to see the boy band's latest movie prompts discussion of straight queerness, Japanese crossdressers and masturbation as performance art.

October 20, 2014

James Marsh (The Theory of Everything) Talks Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard’s 20,000 Days on Earth

The Oscar-winning director considers this hybrid documentary portrait of Nick Cave that is simultaneously revealing and guarded.

September 29, 2014

Ed Schrader Talks the Documentary David Bowie Is

A documentary about a museum exhibit about a rock star manages to convey an essential truth.

September 27, 2014

Zach Clark (White Reindeer) Talks Wiktor Ericsson’s A Life in Dirty Movies

A documentary portrait of a man commonly known as a “sexploitation film director” whose films transcended their smutty, low-budget origins.

September 24, 2014

Tracy Droz Tragos (Rich Hill) Talks Rory Kennedy’s Last Days in Vietnam

Made almost 40 years after the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, this documentary underlines why we must not forget the lessons of that war.

September 8, 2014

Chiemi Karasawa (Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me) Talks Jennifer M. Kroot’s To Be Takei

The chronicler of Elaine Stritch's late years considers a new documentary on her "uncle," an iconic figure who goes from strength to strength.

James Marsh (The Theory of Everything) Talks Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren’s The Dog

A look at the new documentary about flamboyant bisexual bank robber John Wojtowicz, and also the more famous fictional take on his life.

Nancy Savoca (Dogfight) Talks Steve James’ Life Itself

The psychologist James Hillman writes about our attraction to biographies in his book The Soul’s Code...

July 9, 2014

Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze) Talks Andreas Johnsen’s Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case

I’d love to be able to make a film like Andreas Johnsen has done with his latest documentary, Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case.

May 15, 2014

Elizabeth Sankey and Jeremy Warmsley (Summer Camp) Talk Writing the Soundtrack for Beyond Clueless And the Comfort of Creative Instructions

We've just finished mixing our first soundtrack, for a documentary called Beyond Clueless, directed by Charlie Lyne. It's a rather unusual..

February 22, 2014