film essay

Mark Cousins, director of the new doc The Eyes of Orson Welles, on how our current age has caught up to a genius ahead of his time.

Writer-director Clay Liford examines how he's set himself up for failure in the past and the positive actions he's taking to break that cycle.

Two Plains and a Fancy directors Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn on their love for these two kinds of eerie viewing experiences.

The writer-director-star of The Poet and the Professor on the personal and cinematic experiences that informed her taboo-busting film.

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.