“If you want to get a great production deal in Hollywood, all you have to do is be Black, male, and NOT Wendell Harris.” This sentiment was used as a running j...
One's life is their art as their art is their life—this is the axiom of Mia Hansen-Løve's career which, seemingly all of a sudden, is fifteen years and seven f...
Ever since his first non-soundtrack album, Lost Themes, released in 2015, legendary horror director John Carpenter has entered what could be called a second wi...
It was perhaps predestined Todd Haynes would one day make a film about the Velvet Underground. Predestined since Velvet Goldmine, at least, which—in a time whe...
With her sophomore feature, French writer, director, and provocateur Julia Ducournau has secured her place in film history and proven herself a serious talent....
Jerry Schatzberg is among the great American filmmakers who changed the landscape in the 1970s, but his name is one that has taken some time to get the recogni...
How to use 30 minutes with somebody you consider one of the greatest filmmakers who has ever lived? It helps that Kiyoshi Kurosawa's latest, Wife of a Spy, is ...
It’s August at the Locarno Film Festival and Gaspar Noé is in a philosophical mood: “In life there are not two doors. There is just one door. There is an entra...
In 2014, maverick artist Amalia Ulman crafted an Instagram performance piece entitled “Excellences & Perfections” in which she performed the part of a made...
What classifies as a lost film? On one side, there are silent films that Hollywood studios dumped in the Pacific Ocean once talkies took over. On another, ther...
