There’s an enigmatic quality to the role of Nolan in the current filmmaking landscape.
Our list comprises modern originals and reinterpretations of yuletide favorites.
Arnett and Dern discuss why they resisted intellectualizing their characters during shooting.
These films attest to the range of human expression that’s vital to understanding the context of the age we live in.
While the year started off quietly, it ultimately produced a slew of albums that are at turns introspective and ambitious.
Bi discusses how he translated his narrative ideas into a sensory dimension.
In an age of dwindling attention spans, songs are the most discrete commercial musical unit.
Whether mining the past, pods, or headlines, good stories were the core of the year’s best shows.
While the machine has us enthralled, art can’t stop being art.
Sorrentino discusses why it was important to reflect an ideal version of politics in his film.
This curatorial eye felt like a particularly precious gift this year
This year’s festival boasted 19 features, 11 shorts, a fragment of an otherwise lost film, and more.
Mendonça Filho and Moura discuss the role of cinema in making social change.
Schilinski discusses the film’s sound and her research into the reverberations of trauma.
The filmmaker discusses his influences and inventing weird ways to kill people.
The actors discuss how they approached the lightly satirical elements of Joachim Trier’s film.
Laxe and López discuss what they took away from grappling with the imminence of death.
Sachs and Rosenkrantz discuss what attracts them to the everyday lives of artists.
Jude discusses why cinema being in a state of constant crisis exhilarates him.
These films shocked us by plumbing our deepest primordial terrors.
O’Connor discusses how he came to understand America by immersing himself in an era.