Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
The acclaimed playwright sat down with us to discuss his funny and moving love story, which will premiere at the Public Theater.
McLean discusses the pyrotechnics of violence, toying with an audience’s expectations, and more.
New Directors/New Films is practically a pu pu platter sampling of some of the more memorable titles you missed at Park City.
The epitome of grace, Kore-eda discusses the lightness of touch that’s become his signature.
The French filmmaker is given to speaking of intuition in ironically ritualistic terms.
Maslany and Cullen discuss the pros and cons of playing a love story with your real-life partner.
Farhadi discusses the ambiguity of his films, dealing with Iran’s censors, and more.
Here are our best bets to get past the first heat and maybe earn a few nasty tweets from our new POTUS.
Mills discusses the memory of his mother, his art-school education, and working with actors.
The director and actress discuss schadenfreude, the elusive laffs-to-pathos ratio, and more.
A great film scene has the ability to function, regardless of length, as its own self-contained short.
All of these performances exude a preternatural understanding of human complexities and emotions.
The riches made available to cinephiles on home video proves again that the rumors about the death of physical media have been greatly exaggerated.
These 20 films choke and bludgeon the senses rather than nourish or enliven them.
You can experience the festival from beginning to end without leaving the island of Zamalek.
Tsukamoto said that the driving influence of his breakout ’90s genre work was the concrete labyrinth of Tokyo.
Among Slant’s best films of the year are numerous works that challenge a static definition of personage.
The specter of death and sting of betrayal have cast a somber mood onto many of the best albums of 2016.
The best singles of the year were attuned to a worldwide drift toward maintaining one’s own financial and psychological bottom line.
This year’s TV revealed new characters and narrative landscapes that cumulatively push toward artistic expression and personal liberation.