film essay

Filmmaker Jesse Noah Klein on the very particular, resonant experience of seeing Béla Tarr's seven-hour-plus masterpiece during a global pandemic.

Screenwriter B. Dave Walters, the filmmaker of the upcoming doc Dear America, from a Black Guy, looks back on his journey as a Black geek.

Legendary director John Badham, who has a new edition of his book On Directing out now, shares a favorite filmmaking story.

Director and producer Chadd Harbold outlines how he's got back to work during the pandemic, and also shares his new short, Close Contact.

Writer-director-actor Frank Mosley on the 10-year odyssey of making his ever-evolving film project Her Wilderness, which is now online.

Director MJ Bassett, whose new film Rogue is out tomorrow, on her experiences after coming out as transgender in 2017.

Age-positive adult film performer and director Morgana Muses, subject of the new documentary Morgana, on BDSM and her midlife transformation.

Writer-director Richard Tanne looks back on the first short film he made in high school, and how it connects to his new movie, Chemical Hearts.

Mattson Tomlin, the screenwriter of Project Power, on what he learned by watching the Wachowskis' seminal sci-fi movie more than 100 times.

Ramona S. Diaz on her new documentary, A Thousand Cuts, and the impossibility of filmmakers always remaining impartial observers.

Patrick James Lynch recalls how the weekend he got married coincided with the most dramatic moment in his new documentary, Bombardier Blood.

Actress and screenwriter Jenna Lyng Adams on how she had to go through flames to make her pandemic thriller Before the Fire.