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Contemplating the New Physicality of Cinema
by C.S. Leigh
As moviegoers leave dank, smoke-filled basement theaters behind, how will contemporary cinema change?
Notes from Aboveground
by Aaron Cutler
The films of Jonas Mekas are masterpieces of nothing.
Cathedral Head
by Victoria Nelson
A closer look at the deeply Gothic worldview that informs the work of Guillermo del Toro.
A Devil-Obsessed Conglomeration of Christian Misfits
by William Giraldi
How
The Exorcist, by most accounts the scariest movie ever made, has become completely unscary.
Curse of the Spurned Hippie
by Steven G. Kellman
Among the small body of American movies filmed in foreign languages is a horror film starring William Shatner—shot entirely in Esperanto.
Sam Mendes
in conversation with Heidi Julavits
The director of
Revolutionary Road describes the process of adapting—and preserving—Richard Yates’s prose for the screen.
John Sayles
interviewed by Antonino D’Ambrosio
The “godfather of bootstrap cinema” on vanishing finances, Bruce Lee, and how he might have invented
E.T.
Julie Delpy
interviewed by Natasha Boas
The actress (Godard’s
Détective), screenwriter (Linklater’s
Before Sunrise), and director (
2 Days in Paris) adores sci-fi and Larry David.
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Mike Leigh
interviewed by Chloe Veltman
“The reason my films work is because every actor on set is very secure. They’re able to fly.”
Arthur Bradford
micro-interviewed by Dave Eggers
