Alison Brie on Her Major Year, Holiday Movies, and the Perfect Drink to Pair with Happiest Season

Although Sloane Caldwell is not the protagonist of Clea DuVall’s Happiest Season, as played by Alison Brie, there is not a single scene Sloane is in, where you...

Sean Durkin on The Nest, the Art of Directing Great Performances, and Finding the Right Ending

Nine years after the release of his first feature Martha Marcy May Marlene, Sean Durkin returns with the familial drama The Nest, starring Jude Law and Carrie ...

The Climb Team on Comic Timing, One-Takes, and Balancing Abrasive Characters

For a film that charts a quarreling friendship as it jumps years in a single cut, it's lamentably fitting that The Climb has had such a long, winding journey t...

Luca Guadagnino Talks We Are Who We Are, Loving Your Actors, and the Suspiria Sequel That Won’t Happen

The first season of We Are Who We Are, Luca Guadagnino’s first television show, just wrapped; all eight episodes are now available to stream on HBO Max. The se...

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 ...