The making of Thelma & Louise.

The battle to make The Godfather pitted director Francis Ford Coppola against producers including Robert Evans, and the production itself against the real life mob.

A profile of an up-and-coming director:

Well, according to Woody, his ascent has been a series of painful falls. Success hasn’t changed him, Allen insists: he’s still a schlemiel. “I’m afraid of the dark and suspicious of the light,” he says. “I have an intense desire to return to the womb—anybody’s.” Ineptitude, Woody goes on, is a family curse.

An oral history of director Michael Bay.

On the eve of the release of The Tree of Life, a look back at the turbulent making of Terence Malick’s debut.

After a final film, Kevin Smith is going to retire to a life of podcasting and speaking tours. Or so he says.

It was the middle of the day in the steamy Philippine jungle and the sun was merciless. Director Francis Ford Coppola, dressed in rumpled white Mao pajamas, was slowly making his way upriver in a motor launch.

A profile of Zack Snyder, director of Watchmen, Dawn of the Dead, and the upcoming Superman series.

A profile of director Guillermo del Toro.

“As we enter into a new age, maybe art will be free. Maybe the students are right. They should be able to download music and movies. I’m going to be shot for saying this. But who said art has to cost money?”

A “fanatical Lynch fan from way back,” David Foster Wallace visits the set of Lost Highway, never actually talks to the director, and writes a profile.

Tony Kaye was one of the biggest commercial directors of his time. Then he directed American History X and, by his own admission, completely lost his mind.