Doha-Tribeca Fest’s Six Best Middle Eastern Films
The region has been experiencing a filmmaking renaissance in recent years.
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Filmmaker Matt Cibelli’s New Short Film Sure to Please Crane Lovers, Foot Fetishists
The film juxtaposes (beautiful) footage of construction cranes with (enigmatic) audio of women talking about their shoes.
Filmmaker Jeremy Workman ‘Makes It Big’
Workman's short following the travails of a talented actress and her difficulties landing a decent movie role.
Antichrist and the Ten Most Brutalized Wangs in Movie History
'There's Something About Mary'! 'The Last House on the Left'! 'Santa Sangre'!
Director Peter Greenaway on Rembrandt’s J’accuse and Our Visual Illiteracy
"Even 'Casablanca' eventually becomes disappointing because it never changes."
Antichrist Director Lars von Trier Reviews His Reviews
"What this person is saying makes perfect sense to me. But I don't think showing contempt in a film is a bad thing."
Where the Wild Things Are and Eleven Other Controversy-Causing Kids’ Movies
Some are too intense; others, too visionary. A few, too racist.
The Real Ari Gold on His New Movie With Adrian Grenier
"There's another [Ari Gold] out in Eugene, Oregon, who runs an organic bakery ... He's the Ari Gold most unlike the one on TV."
Harmony Korine on How Fatherhood Influenced His New Movie About Having Sex With Garbage Cans
"The trash bins began to resemble human forms to me ... They looked very humpable."
Trucker’s Michelle Monaghan on Getting Her License
"I made a deal with [the director] that if I wasn't able to get the permit, I wasn't going to make the movie."
Afterschool Director Antonio Campos on Absorbing Internet Criticism and the ‘Unbearable’ NYC Prep
"'NYC Prep' seems to be more interested in glorifying and sensationalizing that lifestyle more than actually presenting us with anything resembling reality."
Don’t Make Jane Campion Turn This Car Around
A structurally playful and surreal look at what can only be described as a family road trip from hell.
Lucrecia Martel’s Rey Muerto: A Wild Bunch of Violence and Chickens
It's a perfect introduction to Martel's style, in the way it mixes kitchen-sink realism with a sense of mythic wonder.
Animator Emily Hubley Plays Volleyball in Her Living Room
It's a beautiful little experimental collage about a single woman’s morning workout, with music by Yo La Tengo.
Director Hirokazu Kore-eda on Still Walking and the American After Life Remake
"I am still looking forward to it — but of course I am worried."
See Neill Blomkamp’s Six-Minute Rough Draft of District 9
'Alive in Joburg,' made in 2005, details a future world in which aliens in Johannesburg are segregated in a way that recalls South Africa’s notorious apartheid regime.
See Wojciech Has’s Short Film About the Accordion That Got Away
Has's 'Harmonia' is an old-school tearjerker about a poor young boy who wants an accordion.
Park Chan-wook Recounts a Worse-Than-Usual Day at the Morgue
It’s as if Jean-Paul Sartre and Rod Serling got together and hijacked a Roland Emmerich film.
In the Loop Director Armando Iannucci on Sneaking Into the State Department
"It got onto the Drudge Report ...They then carried out a complete review of their security procedures."
See the Short Film That Won In the Loop’s Peter Capaldi an Oscar
Seriously, it will somehow both warm your heart and creep into your dreams.
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