By M. Sellers Johnson. [The new 4k restoration of My Brother’s Wedding] catches me at a strange moment because I’m caught up and trying to get some things done, and they’re not working out quite as well as I’d love them to. But things sort of take their time, you […]
From Sound to Observation: Shuntaro Uchida on Incinerator
By Yun-hua Chen. I felt that my job was to interfere with that as little as possible.” –Shuntaro Uchida Ten-year-old Kozue (Karin) feels out of place at school. She doesn’t have any peer to talk to and likes tossing randomly procured objects into the school’s incinerator. The university student Jinta […]
Verity on the Move: Kevin Macdonald on The Runner
By Ellie Dean. I wanted to show what it’s really like on Kentish Town Road, which is my high street in London—and a pretty grimy, gritty place. There’s something really fun about putting a movie star into that kind of place and watching the reactions of the real people as […]
“Golden Age Thinking”: Kent Jones on Late Fame
By Jonathan Monovich. I find that the past lives in the present. Like Faulkner said, ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past’…. Whenever there have been attempts to return to zero, they’ve amounted to nothing. —Kent Jones In the deeply personal My Voyage to Italy (1999), Martin Scorese […]
“Revival Means Giving Life”: Julia Marchese on a Decade of Out of Print and Repertory Theaters
By Ellie Dean. I wanted to show these wonderful indie cinemas that are fueled on pure film lust, and to hopefully bring back memories of the cinemas the audience attended in their lifetimes that were meaningful to them.” —Julia Marchese In 2014, Julia Marchese made her directorial debut with Out […]
Friendship Finding Its Way Home: Jeong Jae-eun on Take Care of My Cat (2001)
By Jenny Paola Ortega Castillo. At the heart of changing relationships may be changing environments. I wanted to portray the moment when people’s desires begin to diverge. I hoped audiences would not overlook the real struggles faced by young people on the threshold of independence.” –Jeong Jae-eun There are films […]
“Much Better than Reality”: Julian Schnabel on In the Hand of Dante
By Jonathan Monovich. Some people only want to see what they expect to see, but I’m not that kind of person. Josef Von Sternberg was once told his movie didn’t seem very realistic, and he responded, ‘Of course not, it’s much better than reality.’” –Julian Schnabel In the truest sense […]
An Interview with A Useful Ghost: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke
By Yun-hua Chen. I think it comes down to absurdity. I’m not sure it’s exactly a genre, but ‘absurd’ feels closest.” Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke The combination of the seemingly contradictory concepts in the title, useful and ghost, is the film’s most ingenious device. What happens when a ghost obsesses a vacume […]
Love and Frustration: Joseph McBride on I Loved Movies, But… and the Evolution of Film Education
By Jonathan Monovich. I’ve had good luck in my career by following my own interests/impulses. If you’re an ambulance chaser, you’re not going to be successful.” Born into a large Irish-Catholic family, Joseph McBride was raised by two newspaper reporters. Naturally, McBride followed in his parents’ footsteps to become a […]
What the World Needs Now: Olivia Wilde on The Invite
By Jonathan Monovich. Now that we spend so much time not speaking to each other in person and relationships have become something filtered through technology, we actually are fascinated by people interacting. I think audiences get a thrill from films about people having to struggle through the complexity of relationships.” […]