role models

Our writer feels kinship with Blink-182’s drummer, but the themes of desire, guilt and redemption in Travis Barker’s memoir will resonate with anyone.

As his first feature comes out, a filmmaker looks back on what he learned from the iconoclast director.

An emerging writer-director recalls being taken under the wing of the late master of horror.

How Martin Brest's misunderstood masterpiece helped a goofball teenager find love, and his identity.

A personal journey through life, cinema, and time.

26 years after it inspired him to seize the day and follow his dream, the actor-director reflects on the impact Peter Weir's film has had on his life.

The earnest singer-songwriters of the '90s might be deeply uncool now, but they were also massively important.

Somehow, John Darnielle only gets better with age. A dedicated student pays tribute to the champ.

A filmmaker who became a director because of Clint Eastwood considers the retired actor's latest effort behind the camera.

Two Kiwi comic geniuses mash up Christopher Guest and the vampire genre to create a cinematic sitcom about the bourgeois undead.

In 1980s Paris, a young filmmaker meets one of the giants of world cinema (who asks him to please shut the door on his way out).

How did a 40-year-old recluse manage to wow all of us? The answer lies in the difference between music and music.