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Love, Laughter and a Little Chaos: Making You, Me & Her as a Husband-Wife Filmmaking Duo

Writer-director-producer Dan Levy Dagerman on the ins and outs of collaborating with his wife, actor-writer-producer Selina Ringel.

February 19, 2025

Three Great Things: Alan Rudolph

The legendary indie pioneer, whose 1999 film Breakfast of Champions is re-released today, shares a trio of personal favorites.

November 1, 2024

On Lasse, Lisa and Some Like It Hot

Signe Baumane, whose new animated feature My Love Affair with Marriage opens tomorrow, shares a personal tale about her favorite movie.

October 5, 2023

Making a Brain Baby with Your Ex-Husband

Filmmaker Lee Moss, whose new film, birth/rebirth, is out this week, on legacy, progeny and identity in a mutable creative partnership.

August 17, 2023

Revisited: I Made a Movie to Save My Marriage and Then I Got Divorced

Actor-writer-producer Michael Tennant shares the complex personal backstory to his new movie, Pretty Problems.

December 27, 2022

I Made a Movie to Save My Marriage and Then I Got Divorced

Actor-writer-producer Michael Tennant shares the complex personal backstory to his new movie, Pretty Problems.

October 12, 2022

The Simulation Presents Itself

How a moment of personal crisis ignited David Guy Levy’s need to make his new film, The Mandela Effect.

December 2, 2019

How Bigotry Redefines Love

I was stunned last year, when my husband, in between sobs, told me his family would not celebrate our wedding because of “religious reasons.”

February 23, 2018

Remembering My Father-in-law (and the Time My Wife and I Were Arrested on Obscenity Charges for Our Nude Production of Peter Pan)

Stuart Gordon pays tribute to the late Dr. Marshall Purdy, and recalls an early directorial effort that set the tone for their stormy relationship.

May 2, 2016

Jim Strouse (People, Places, Things) Talks Patrick Brice’s The Overnight

What if a 21st-century sex comedy could be smart as well as bawdy, have well-drawn adult characters as well as dick jokes?

June 19, 2015

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.

February 26, 2015

Aaron Beam (Red Fang) Talks Neil Finn’s Dizzy Heights

Most people will be familiar with Neil Finn through his work in the '80s with Crowded House. A few years after their release, I began to appreciate...

February 19, 2014