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Revisited: How the World Became Wellesian

Mark Cousins, whose new film March on Rome just premiered at the Venice Film Festival, on how Orson Welles was a man ahead of his time.

September 6, 2022

The Way We Get By: Barry Sonnenfeld Thinks You Should Watch Some Screwball Comedies

The director, whose book Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker is out now, prescribes more laughter in our lives.

May 27, 2020

How the World Became Wellesian

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.

March 15, 2019

Second Screen: Is Billions a New High for Cable Television?

Jim Hemphill on the abundance of riches to be found in the Showtime series, which brings the best of cinema to the small screen.

March 27, 2017

Actor/Screenwriter Randy Russell Talks Charles Poekel’s Christmas, Again

A holiday movie about a heartbroken Christmas tree salesman finds beauty and even hope in the melancholy.

December 2, 2015