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From the Archive

Toward a Theory of Film Directing

By Charles Grodin
May 24, 2021
From our our May-June 2006 issue, the late-lamented actor's personal take on the actor-director relationship

Interview: Bruce Baillie

By Film Comment
April 14, 2020
The avant-garde director, who passed away last week at the age of 88, discusses life, death, and filmmaking in this 1971 interview

Notes on Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors

By Sergei Parajanov
April 7, 2020
The master filmmaker on the making of his 1965 breakthrough

Interview: Bernardo Bertolucci

By Amos Vogel
March 31, 2020
In this 1971 conversation with Amos Vogel, the Italian master discusses The Conformist, newly restored and in theaters now, and more

Kid Stuff: François Truffaut

By Joseph McBride & Todd McCarthy
March 24, 2020
In this 1976 interview, the master filmmaker discusses his kid-centric Small Change

Interview: Cher

By Harlan Jacobson
March 10, 2020
The singer and actress dishes on Moonstruck and more in this 1988 interview

The Power & the Gory

By Manny Farber & Patricia Patterson
March 3, 2020
In this classic 1976 essay, the two critics take on Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver

Bong Joon Ho’s Guilty Pleasures

By Bong Joon Ho
February 25, 2020
The Parasite director shares his favorite guilty pleasure films in this 2006 article

Interview: Spike Lee

By Marlaine Glicksman
February 18, 2020
In this 1989 conversation, the filmmaker discusses his groundbreaking Do the Right Thing

Academy Leaders

By Andrew Sarris
February 11, 2020
Sarris offers some perspective on the awards in this 1980 essay