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Why I Stopped Wanting to Make Serious Art Films and Came to Believe Movies Should Be Fun

Jim Hosking, director of The Greasy Strangler, makes the case for the value and importance of cinema being, you know, enjoyable.

October 4, 2016

American Honey, a Rare Film That Makes You Ask, “How’d They Do That?”

Ryan Fleck, the director of Half Nelson and Mississippi Grind, on the ineffable magic of Andrea Arnold's first Stateside feature.

September 28, 2016

Talkhouse Film Contributors Remember Curtis Hanson

Joe Dante, Allison Anders, Rod Lurie and more pay tribute to the late director of such classics as L.A. Confidential and Wonder Boys.

Why Paul Schrader Is Wrong and Hardcore Is, in Fact, a Major Movie

Jim Hemphill makes the case that, despite what Schrader himself may say, one of the director's most personal films is also one of his best.

September 15, 2016

The Man in the Ring: With Derek Cianfrance in Venice for the Premiere of The Light Between Oceans

Shannon Plumb on red carpets, press embargoes, critical slapdowns, standing ovations and more, as her husband's new movie premieres on the Lido.

September 14, 2016

Vertigo, My Celluloid Madeleine

Jenni Olson delves into her obsession with Hitchcock's masterpiece, and its connection to the tragic death of one of her dear friends.

September 6, 2016

Bruce LaBruce on Derek Jarman and Will You Dance With Me?

As a lost Jarman documentary from 30 years ago goes on release, Bruce LaBruce looks at its place in the career of the late great British director.

August 9, 2016

What Making Films in the U.K. Taught Me About Brexit

Penny Woolcock draws on 30 years' experience directing fiction and nonfiction films to give her insight into the current political climate in Britain.

July 11, 2016

How The Neon Demon’s “Failure” Reveals a Major Problem in Indie Film

Alex Ross Perry on Nicolas Winding Refn's masterpiece, and what it bombing at the box office says about the state of independent film.

July 8, 2016

Richard Shepard (The Matador) Talks Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts of No Nation

Netflix's first original movie, a heartbreaking tale of boy soldiers, is a thing of beauty made about a world of horror.

October 21, 2015

Actor and Screenwriter Pat Healy Talks Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies

This is, no question, an auteur work, but one where every player in front of and behind the camera distinguishes themselves.

October 20, 2015

Eugene Kotlyarenko (A Wonderful Cloud) Talks Takashi Miike’s Yakuza Apocalypse

It's best not to get intimidated by the absurdly prolific output of this Japanese director, whose new movie is about gangster vampires.

October 16, 2015