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Nobody’s Ever Asked Me That: Terence Nance

The brilliant filmmaker, artist and musician opens up about pain, religion, A.I., capitalism, and the legacy of creative disappointment.

Exclusive Book Excerpt: The Dark Well

From his new book Please Unsubscribe, Thanks!, director Julio Vincent Gambuto on embracing silence and discomfort to discover who we truly are.

August 8, 2023

“At Once Frightening, Violent, Intoxicating, Fragile and Unbearably Tender”: On Bulletproof and Masculinity

Director Todd Chandler on how making his new documentary about school gun violence dovetailed with him becoming a father.

October 29, 2021

Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

In which the author fulfills his responsibility to respond to the film by combining well-reasoned observations with an extended ice cream metaphor.

December 28, 2015

Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks F. Gary Gray’s Straight Outta Compton

A rap response to the box-office hit biopic about N.W.A.’s cultural ascent.

August 21, 2015

Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

In which the author fulfills his responsibility to respond to the film by combining well-reasoned observations with an extended ice cream metaphor.

June 17, 2015

David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints) Talks Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure

A dramatic pretext is brilliantly played to comic effect in this dry and very funny Swedish film that took Cannes by storm earlier this year.

October 28, 2014

Meredith Graves (Perfect Pussy) Talks Andrew W.K., Lana Del Rey and Authenticity at Basilica Soundscape 2014

With devastating clarity, Perfect Pussy's singer damns the cavernous double standard applied to Andrew WK's authenticity and Lana Del Rey's.

September 15, 2014