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Making Film: Behind the Scenes with Beckett

By Daniel Eagan
December 8, 2014
New archival evidence illuminates the avant-garde playwright's lone foray into the eight art

Fassbinder Diary #3: Querelle

By Violet Lucca
December 3, 2014
Fragile masculinity: on the electric strangeness of the director's final film

Fassbinder Diary #2: In a Year of 13 Moons

By Violet Lucca
November 26, 2014
Someone else's boy: tracing the complex interplay between grief and self-loathing in one of the auteur's finest films

Interview: Chienn Hsiang

By Violet Lucca
November 25, 2014
Pretty hurts: the director of Exit speaks about working-class existential crises and working with Golden Horse winner Chen Shiang-chyi

Fassbinder Diary #1: Rio das Mortes

By Violet Lucca
November 18, 2014
The first in a series chronicling the second half of Film Society of Lincoln Center's Fassbinder retrospective

Interview: Ruben Östlund

By Violet Lucca
October 21, 2014
Psych 101: the director of Force Majeure describes his love for YouTube and philosophical debate

Intense Vocalization: Marguerite Duras

By David Ehrenstein
October 16, 2014
A consideration of the nouveau roman author's life and cinematic works

Interview: Alice Rohrwacher

By Violet Lucca
October 10, 2014
The director of The Wonders talks about her ineffably lovely family drama and why problems can be a good thing to have

NYFF: The 1968 Edition

By J. Hoberman
September 22, 2014
Misspent youth: J. Hoberman's vintage screed about the festival—misspellings included

Festivals: Midnight Sun

By Violet Lucca
September 11, 2014
Up all night: the summer festival above the Arctic Circle where there's 24 hours of daylight and movies