The road for Jeremy Saulnier to realize his fifth feature was one of stops and starts, culminating in a process of nearly five years from the original casting ...
Lee Daniels wants to do it all. The filmmaker behind Monster’s Ball, Precious, and The Butler has made an endlessly compelling horror movie, The Deliverance, f...
James Ivory has made so many films. And of the forty-plus he’s made––nearly everything under the Merchant Ivory Productions banner––many are masterpieces. Trul...
Zia Anger's name has not broken into the mainstream; it's instead been a kind of totem for underground film artistry, to whatever extent that even exists anymo...
Those who've followed Nathan Silver and Chris "C. Mason" Wells' careers might find themselves bewildered in recent months. Compelling enough that their latest ...
Nathan Silver’s Between the Temples takes a stock story––a lonely middle-aged man finds unexpected love––and places it in an unfamiliar context. For ...
The best directorial debut of the year, India Donaldson's Good One, is a carefully-observed portrait of both womanhood and fatherhood, capturing the 17-year-ol...
It wouldn’t have been Sundance without at least a handful of coming-of-age stories. Sean Wang’s audience award winner Dìdi (弟弟) proves that, with a n...
Is there a single more enigmatic director than John Ford? After many biographies, documentaries, and over half a century without the director’s presence on thi...
From statues that weep blood to dancing suns that lead to sudden darkness in the middle of the day, the Catholic faith overflows with accounts of miracles. But...
