Birney discusses where he sees connective tissue between cinema and video games.
Nyoni and Susan discuss how they collaborated to develop the inscrutable character of Shula.
Lund discusses how Wiseman, the legacy of baseball movies, and criticism influenced Eephus.
This list is part sheepish capitulation to the role the Oscars have played in our lives.
Rankin discusses why he rejects the idea that fakeness in cinema is inherently bad.
The festival’s curatorial boldness has never felt so necessary.
Abbott discusses the merging of character and self and how the film fits into his career arc.
Eggers discusses the film, its origins, and how the story was received in its birthplace.
In the last two years, the festival’s programming has grown riskier and more boundary-crossing.
The arrival of Oscar prognostication season is both a blessing and a curse.
Anderson and Curtis discuss how their experiences as actresses colored their roles.
Delpero discusses what she hopes spending time in a bygone era offers to modern viewers.
Blumberg discusses developing the film’s main musical themes, his collaborators, and more.
Nivola discusses where he saw connections to his own life in Brady Corbet’s film.
The theater pieces that resonated most this year were stories of communal, collective healing.
All of these videos tell us that it’s okay to want another person next to us.
Horror continues to evolve in ways that confound and as such prove the genre’s durability.
For all their looking back, our favorite films of the year don’t engage in thoughtless nostalgia for an earlier time.
Ross discusses how he and his collaborators pushed forward the idea of point of view.
Even when the AI takes over, the LP factories will still be churning out product.
Our list encompasses party anthems, multiple diss tracks, and honest reckonings with life’s myriad disappointments.