Writer/Director Charlie Polinger Tackles Teenage Boy Body Horror in his Debut Feature ‘The Plague’ [VIDEO INTERVIEW]
At first, adolescence feels like an exciting transition between childhood and adulthood marked by an increase in autonomy, a newfound personal identity, and a future... Read More
Interviews
With ‘Song Sung Blue,’ Craig Brewer Pays Tribute to Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman, Joy Amongst Sadness, and the Creation of Art [VIDEO INTERVIEW]
As a filmmaker, Craig Brewer has often been drawn to stories of artists and dreamers. In his breakthrough 2005 Sundance hit and Hustle and Flow,... Read More
Interview: ‘Marty Supreme’ Casting Director Jennifer Venditti on Finding 1950s Faces and the Magic of Collaborating with Josh Safdie
For casting director, Jennifer Venditti, finding the right face is everything. After beginning her career in the fashion world, where she worked with brands like... Read More
Rhea Seehorn Breaks Down Carol’s Existential Loneliness as the Last Woman in Albuquerque in Episode 7 of ‘Pluribus’
The loneliness has caught up with Carol Sturka. Vince Gilligan’s newest television entry, Pluribus, has been building an existential loneliness within its lead since The... Read More
Rian Johnson on How Faith and Humanity Make Peace Within His Latest Mystery ‘Wake Up Dead Man’ [AUDIO INTERVIEW]
No one is having as much fun making films as Rian Johnson. Over the course of the last twenty years, Johnson has delivered some of... Read More
Bearing Witness to a Vanished Lake and the People Who Still Row: First Time Directors Talk ‘Qotzuñi’ [VIDEO INTERVIEW]
When filmmakers Michael Salama and Gaston Zilberman traveled to Bolivia, they thought they were documenting the disappearance of Lake Poopó. “We even came to the story... Read More
How ‘Marty Supreme’ Composer Daniel Lopatin Created a 1950s Landscape with a 1980s Vibe [VIDEO INTERVIEW]
Anachronisms are a funny thing. Sometimes it’s jarring and the clash isn’t playfully incongruent but distractingly bizarre. Sometimes it just makes sense in a ‘you... Read More
Interview: Alexander Skarsgård on His New Dom-Com ‘Pillion’ and Presenting Kink with Care
Alexander Skarsgård’s photo on IMDB is one of the actor “at an event for 2016 MTV Movie Awards” where he showed up without pants. Looking... Read More
Interview: Cinematographer Łukasz Żal on Creating Death’s Point of View and the Magical Realism of ‘Hamnet’
When I learned that Łukasz Żal was the cinematographer for Chloé Zhao’s latest film, Hamnet, I was immediately intrigued. Known for his striking black-and-white photography... Read More
The Lung of the Earth: Richard Ladkani’s Defining Portrait of Juma Xipaia in ‘Yanuni’ [VIDEO INTERVIEW]
For more than a decade, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Richard Ladkani has shaped some of the most urgent environmental documentaries of our time. With films like The Ivory Game and Sea of... Read More
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2026 Sundance Film Festival: ‘Josephine’ Wins Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award 
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Midnight Critics Circle (MCC) Awards: ‘Marty Supreme’ Wins Best Picture