Activist & Political · Directors · Interviews
Maps and Movies: Talking with Deepa Mehta
“I think it’s really important for you, or anybody who wants to be a filmmaker, to really be honest with yourself.”
Category: Directors
Jean-Pierre Melville, Director: Notes on the French Auteur’s Career
“The film was shot in what would become a blueprint for the director’s production style — without authorization, studio resources, or sufficient funds.”
Spike Lee’s “Uniquely American [Di]vision”: Race and Class in 25th Hour
“Is it simply that the hero must be white for a mainstream American audience to care for him, or for the mainstream critical establishment to value Lee’s work?”
John Cassavetes: The First Dogme Director?
“The major point of convergence between Cassavetes and the Dogme movement is an oppositional realist form that blurs the boundaries between being and performing.”
Directors · Experimental & Underground
An Evening With Kenneth Anger
Last night, I had the pleasure of attending a screening of some of Kenneth Anger’s most recent short films – hosted by Mr. Anger himself. The legendary “underground filmmaker” was[…]
The Last Mistress: An Interview with Catherine Breillat
“When I make movies, nothing is limited.”
Jack Hill Speaks
Director Jack Hill took the time to send along his thoughts on Noah Berlatsky’s article “Men in Women-in-Prison: Masochism, Feminism, Fetish” in the most recent issue of Bright Lights. Hill,[…]
A Real Director’s Cut: Cassavetes Edits Himself in The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
It is the subjective fever dreamof a psyche carving fantasy out of reality as he goes.”
Directors · Essays · Writers & Critics
Counter Clockwise: Or Lay Quiet Awhile with Ed and Id Molotov
Re-examining the Crossed Wires in Kubrick’s and Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange
Directors · Documentaries · Interviews
Paradise Betrayed: Talking with Terence Davies About Of Time and the City
“You can’t stop time. It stops you.”
Counterculture · Directors · Interviews
The Mole Man: Going Underground with Alejandro Jodorowsky
“I think Spielberg is the son from when Walt Disney fucked Minnie Mouse.”
The Kids Are Not All Right: Larry Clark on WassupRockers and More
“For me it was like, How do Imanipulate this kid so he can do this and he’s comfortable?, which isall part of directing.”
Directors · Horror · Interviews
Object in Mirror May Be Closer Than It Appears: Stuart Gordon Talks about Horror, the Absurd, and Stuck
“These two people are stuck in life.”
Directors · Experimental & Underground
Some Remarks on Bruce Conner and Report
Entering into negotiations with executives at Time, Inc. over the sale of a film he’d shot in Dallas on November 22, 1963, Abraham Zapruder was adamant that his 26.6 seconds[…]
African American · Directors · Interviews
A Quiet Storm: Charles Burnett on Namibia and His Post-Killer of Sheep Career
“Each film requires for me its own approach.”
Directors · Interviews · LGBT & Queer · Memoir
Man with a Movie Camera: Visiting Jonathan Caouette
“I could somehow control my own story.”
Directors · Documentaries · Festivals & Awards · Interviews
What’s Up, Docs? Nonstandard Operating Procedures in Recent Documentaries, and Interviews with Patricio Henriquez and Doug Pray
“Why didn’t you just stick to the truth?”
Directors · Festivals & Awards · Interviews
From a Line of Ancestors: Talking with Doris Dörrie and Natasha Arthy
“We in the West trample on them.”
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