Manfred Kirchheimer on Restoring the Lost New York of Free Time

Between 1957 and 1960, Manfred Kirchheimer and his partner Walter Hess shot thousands of feet of 16mm film for a planned documentary about New York City. For y...

Cinematographer Łukasz Żal on Capturing Mortality and Memories in I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Łukasz Żal shoots about one film per year. He allows the film to overtake him, creating mini chapters within his life, depending on the style, content, and emo...

Oliver Laxe on Fire Will Come, Finding the Essence of Cinema, and Leonard Cohen

Oliver Laxe’s spellbinding third film Fire Will Come opens and closes with grand, almost mythic natural phenomena involving the eucalyptus trees in t...

Catherine Eaton on Bringing The Sounding From Stage to Screen, Integrating Shakespeare, and Society’s Responsibility

Writer/director/star Catherine Eaton's feature directorial debut The Sounding is finally available nationwide digitally after a planned theatrical run was unfo...

Ben Wheatley on the Moral Center of Rebecca, Revamping Hitchcock, and Constructing Layers of Memories

Ben Wheatley’s Rebecca evokes the titular character in the spaces she left behind in Maxim de Winter’s family estate, Manderley, and in the people she left beh...

Adam Nayman on Unpacking the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson

Adam Nayman, discussing his long and detailed book on Paul Thomas Anderson, will be the first person to tell you there is no small resource of writing on Paul ...

Martin Eden Director Pietro Marcello on the Damage of Neoliberalism and the Need for True Socialism

For his adaptation of Jack London’s “Martin Eden," Pietro Marcello changed the setting of from the novel’s pre-WWI America to pre-World War II Italy. He told u...

Azazel Jacobs on the Pressure of French Exit, Casting Michelle Pfeiffer, and Growing Up in the Filmmaking World

Azazel Jacobs grew up in the world of film, understanding its importance from his father, experimental filmmaking pioneer Ken Jacobs. His newest feature, Frenc...

Jim Cummings on the Future of Indie Film, Working with Robert Forster, and Recording His Movies as Podcasts

Jim Cummings is perhaps as recognized for talking about making movies as he is at making them. If you pay attention to American indie films, Cummings has carve...

Hopper/Welles Team on the Curious Mind of Orson Welles, Completing His Vision, and the Importance of Physical Media

Producer Filip Jan Rymsza, editor Bob Murawski, along with Peter Bogdonavich and Frank Marshall, surprised the film world in 2018 when they finished Orson Well...