Telluride is not on my annual festival calendar—too distant, too costly—and rarely I’m at Toronto, 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 ...
The fifth and final season of Stranger Things required a full calendar year of production in Atlanta, a marathon of 240 ...
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 ...
In Filmmaker’s fall 1995 edition, producer Ted Hope’s two-part “Indie Film is Dead/Long Live Indie Film” offered a blunt ...
Curious as to what it would say, I recently asked ChatGPT for a history of Filmmaker. It returned a biography that ...
Producer, director and screenwriter James Schamus has been an invaluable presence at Filmmaker from its earliest days. He ...
In setting out to make Nouvelle Vague, his effervescent ode to the birth of French New Wave cinema, Richard Linklater knew ...
Mark Obenhaus has had an extensive career in television documentary, having worked with ABC News as well as on the PBS series ...