Telluride is not on my annual festival calendar—too distant, too costly—and I’m at Toronto rarely, only with a film. So as a ...

By conventional measures, the 2020s have not been very good for the movies. At mid-decade, there’s the nagging sense that the ...

Kicking and Screaming (1995), writer-director Noah Baumbach, having crafted a notable career both in Hollywood and outside of ...

The fifth and final season of Stranger Things required a full calendar year of production in Atlanta, a marathon of 240 ...

Released 30 years ago, Michael Mann’s Heat is an almost-three-hour-long odyssey through Los Angeles and the minds of two ...

Kevin Corrigan, the consummate actor, true student of the craft, friend of all actors, the best friend of Back To One, the ...

Toward the end of my interview with Gregg Araki, I remind him of his scene from Michael Almereyda and Amy Hobby’s 1995 ...

After I put my kid to sleep, I found myself standing by the window, looking out over the valley of apartment buildings. The ...

Tessa Thompson has a predilection for playing fiercely ambitious women. Against all odds, her characters stand firmly in ...

In January, I’ll teach another version of my favorite class, “Creative Critical Writing,” a graduate writing workshop ...

Ronald Bronstein premiered his feature Frownland at South by Southwest the same year as Josh Safdie’s short We’re Going to ...

In Filmmaker’s fall 1995 edition, producer Ted Hope’s two-part “Indie Film is Dead/Long Live Indie Film” offered a blunt ...