film essay

The director of the re-released Beatles film The Hours and Times on how speculative history became the framework he chose to make movies.

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

Stray writer-director Joe Sill on the initiative that has propelled him forward in his filmmaking career.

Novelist Russell Banks looks back on the first time he watched Truffaut's The 400 Blows, which he will be introducing in NYC this weekend.

True Blue's writer-director does some frank career self-assessment and envisions a system that is interdependent, not "indie."

Fighting with My Family's writer-director Stephen Merchant traces the roots of his comedy career back to a childhood full of laughter.

Darren Lynn Bousman, whose new film St. Agatha is in theaters now, on how his son Henry altered his perspective on life and art.

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

To Dust's Shawn Snyder on how the serendipitous discovery of the 1937 film The Dybbuk had a transformative effect on his new movie.

The director of The Gospel of Eureka on his experiences making (and then screening) a documentary short about an LGBT haven in the Bible Belt.

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

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