An icon of cinema culture in the 1960s and 1970s, the energetic, imaginative Donald S. Rugoff ran the theater chain and film distribution company Cinema 5, whi...
Man gave names to all the animals; director Michael Sarnoski saw fit to keep it simple. Pig, his directorial debut, finds truffle-hunting Nicolas Cage roaming ...
After a string of stellar films with Away from Her, Take This Waltz, and Stories We Tell, actor-turned-director Sarah Polley stepped away from movie-making for...
We can thank the limitations of the past year as it relates to filmmaking for an increased output of small-scale features as directors weren't able to bring to...
Kicking off the fall with a bang, The Criterion Collection has unveiled quite a September lineup. Johnnie To will finally be joining the collection with his 20...
It's been such a long wait for the release of the new film from Wes Anderson that the filmmaker himself is already prepping to shoot his next film this summer....
Some 16 months after its quiet debut at Berlinale 2020, Sweet Thing—the new film by Alexandre Rockwell, he of In the Soup and one-fourth of (in)famous antholog...
One of our most-anticipated premieres amongst the Directors' Fortnight lineup at this year's Cannes Film Festival is Clio Barnard's Ali & Ava. Following Th...
It's been quite a struggle for Alexander Payne to get his next film off the ground. Following up his biggest project yet, scope-wise, with Downsizing, he's bee...
A premiere at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Marion Hill's acclaimed drama Ma Belle, My Beauty explores the nuances of a polyamorous relationship. S...
After graduating from Hampshire College with a degree in music theory, Leonard Pearce turned his passions to film and writing. He lives in upstate NY with his wife Laura and cat Tardi.
