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Michael Tully (Ping Pong Summer) Talks J.C. Chandor’s A Most Violent Year

The increasingly versatile New York-based writer-director creates a very grounded, textured thriller set in Gotham in the early 1980s.

December 24, 2014

David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints) Talks Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep

Its heady seriousness and three-hour running time make this year's Palme d'Or winner a daunting prospect, but the film holds slow-burning pleasures.

December 18, 2014

Ti West (The Sacrament) Talks Chris Rock’s Top Five

The new directorial effort by one of the funniest men in Hollywood goes beyond humor to reach something personal, and in that lies its greatness.

December 10, 2014

David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints) Talks Tsai Ming-liang’s Stray Dogs

Watching a new work by a favorite director, the Texas filmmaker dwells on a long, suspended moment in this austere portrait of poverty.

September 16, 2014

Kat Candler (Hellion) Talks János Szász’s The Notebook

Kat Candler's been very busy with her film recently, but her husband's been needling her about not writing for Talkhouse Film, so she wrote this, OK?

September 3, 2014

David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints) Talks Richard Linklater’s Boyhood

“It’s always right now,” the young protagonist of Boyhood says in the final moments of the film...

July 16, 2014

Rjyan Kidwell (Cex) Talks Robin Thicke’s Paula

By naming his seventh album Paula, Robin Thicke imbues the album with a concrete identity that is immediately understandable and irrevocable.

July 2, 2014

Screenwriter Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith (Legally Blonde) Talks Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child

Where has Jenny Slate been all my life? Turns out, for the last few years she’s been doing great, steady work as a supporting actress on shows...

June 11, 2014

James Marsh (Man on Wire) Talks Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida

A couple of times in any given year, if I am lucky, I get to see a great film – best defined as a film alive with new possibilities for the medium...

June 9, 2014