film commentary
Zach Clark (White Reindeer) Talks David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars
Remember your creepy Uncle David from Canada? He was respectable for a bit, but now he's back with the best horror movie he's made since the '90s.
Shannon Plumb (Towheads) Talks Liv Corfixen’s My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
A filmmaker sees strong parallels with her own life in this film that puts a personal spin on the behind-the-scenes documentary.
Jim Hemphill (The Trouble with the Truth) Talks Yann Demange’s ’71
The British director's masterful debut about one long night in early '70s Belfast is a film that should be seen and championed by all.
Stephanie Barber (Daredevils) Talks Amanda Rose Wilder’s Approaching the Elephant
In this observational documentary about a fledgling free school, the drama of childhood is portrayed with steadiness and restraint.
Lawrence Michael Levine (Wild Canaries) Talks Steve Pink’s Hot Tub Time Machine 2
Surely the only piece on the decade-hopping comedy sequel to reference the Buddha's sense of humor and diss both film school and Vladimir Nabokov.
James Marsh (The Theory of Everything) Talks John Maloof and Charlie Siskel’s Finding Vivian Maier
The director of an Oscar-winning documentary shares his thoughts on one of this year's non-fiction contenders.
Brea Grant (Best Friends Forever) Talks Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland’s Still Alice
A deeply personal look at this moving portrait of an Alzheimer's patient featuring an Oscar-nominated performance from Julianne Moore.
Jim Hemphill (The Trouble with the Truth) Talks Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper
A filmmaker who became a director because of Clint Eastwood considers the retired actor's latest effort behind the camera.
Barry Jenkins (Medicine for Melancholy) Talks Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Blending fantasy and reality, this soaring, star-studded success reveals a different side to the virtuosic Mexican master.
David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints) Talks Richard Linklater’s Boyhood
On a plane going to the other side of the world, the Texas filmmaker tries to Linklater's long-gestating masterpiece.
Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s What We Do in the Shadows
Two Kiwi comic geniuses mash up Christopher Guest and the vampire genre to create a cinematic sitcom about the bourgeois undead.
Actor/Screenwriter Randy Russell Talks Marc Lawrence’s The Rewrite
A light-hearted love story featuring characters in their fifties -- could this be a post-rom-com? Or even a revisionist rom-com?











