October 2020
Oliver Laxe discusses three films that played a role in shaping his latest feature, the acclaimed Fire Will Come.
February 2020
Filmmaker Grant Gee looks back on three films that influenced his 1998 Radiohead documentary Meeting People Is Easy, recently released on the band’s new online archive.
April 2018
The PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of Netherland extols the virtues of Michael Almereyda's essay-biopic.
March 2018
The critic, programmer and author of David Lynch: The Man From Another Place considers Bertrand Bonello's terrorism thriller.
December 2017
The esteemed film critic and author looks at Pedro Costa's "strongest film" and its place in the director's body of work as well as the wider cinematic landscape.
November 2017
The author of "Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet" discusses the contemporary and political references hidden in the filmmaking duo's masterful biblical tale.
December 2016
In this second installment of on set recollections, Joaquim Pinto discusses adapting his methods to Ruiz's working style.
The director of What Now? Remind Me reflects on his time as a sound engineer with the filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira.
August 2016
The director of Listen Up Philip and Queen of Earth on the Sundance winning documentary Kate Plays Christine from Robert Greene, a friend, and editor of his films.
June 2016
The director of The Unspeakable Act considers, perhaps, Mikio Naruse's darkest film, the 1935 masterwork The Girl in the Rumor.