We had the chance to speak with the celebrated filmmaker in Hamburg about his approach to filmmaking, streamers versus cinema, and his experiences at film festivals. ...
At just 28 years old, Balagov is a wunderkind whose talent and accomplishments dwarf his humble age. We pick his brain on his collaborative process and cinematic influences, and what it was like to work with such a poised and talented toddler....
For fans of his highly idiosyncratic filmmaking, Oh Mercy! is a fascinating entry into Desplechin’s oeuvre for precisely all of the reasons that it deviates from the characteristics we’ve come to associate with him....
A fresh take on a classic genre, The Wave simultaneously confounds and entertains. The film had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest, where we spoke with the director and writer....
For four decades, the world, characters, and mythology of Alien have permeated the minds (and nightmares) of film fans across the globe. In his latest documentary, director Alexandre O. Philippe looks at all the art and history that influenced young Dan O’Bannon, scribe of the 1979 horror classic, and how the film forever captured and changed the mindset of the public....
Following its Fantastic Fest premiere–where it picked up an award for Creative Vision–we sat with director Christopher Winterbauer and producer Helen Estabrook (Whiplash) to find out all about the characters and world of Wyrm....
While at Fantastic Fest, it’s not often you find feel-good, heart-warming yarns amid the plethora of films about yakuza, murderers, zombies or other genre staples. But The True Adventures of Wolfboy is as unexpected as it is honest....
You'll be forgiven for not realizing one of this decade's most enveloping, complex, haunting, and haunted performances exists almost exclusively on a bite-sized Adult Swim series....
We sat down with Bonello at the 57th New York Film Festival to discuss meeting real-life zombies, the great lengths he went to respect the Haitian tradition of voodoo while telling a taboo story, using Clairvius Narcisse’s zombification to contextualize contemporary cultural tensions, and recruiting historian Patrick Boucheron to explain how liberalism obscures liberty....
