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Movies & TV

The Excavations of Pedro Almodóvar

The 72-year-old is still making movies that shock.

Marcela Valdes The New York Times Magazine Dec 2021 30min Permalink

World Movies & TV

India’s Leading Documentary Filmmaker Has a Warning

Anand Patwardhan spent decades tracking the rise of Hindu nationalism. And now, under an increasingly repressive government, he holds his screenings in secret.

Abhrajyoti Chakraborty New York Times Nov 2020 25min Permalink

Movies & TV

American Psycho: An Oral History, 20 Years After Its Divisive Debut

In January 2000, American Pyscho bombed at Sundance. It was just the beginning.

Tim Molloy MovieMaker Jan 2020 Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

An Artist's Life, Refracted in Film

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s new movie, inspired by Gerhard Richter, blurs the line between fiction and biography. Richter says that it goes too far.

Dana Goodyear New Yorker Jan 2019 Permalink

Crime Movies & TV

Death of a Dystopian

Conspiracy theorists think that the government killed the aspiring Libertarian filmmaker David Crowley to stop him from making his film about an authoritarian takeover of the United States and the vets who fight back. The truth is far stranger.

Alec Wilkinson New Yorker Mar 2017 25min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

The Not-So-Secret Life of Terrence Malick

The reclusive director comes out of his shell at 73.

Eric Benson Texas Monthly Mar 2017 20min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

Jodorowsky On God, Anti-Semitism, And The Uses of Poetry

“What I do is not magical realism. I do realistic magic. Look, whenever someone does something new, people have to compare it with things they already know. So even if you innovate, you end up being connected to the past. When I began making movies people linked me to Fellini or Buñuel. Now new filmmakers are called ‘jodorowskian.’”

Ilan Stevens, Alejandro Jodorowsky Literary Hub May 2015 20min Permalink

Arts Media Movies & TV

How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets

A profile of documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, who last January received “a curious e-mail from an anonymous stranger requesting her public encryption key.”

Peter Maass New York Times Magazine Aug 2013 30min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

The Secret Mainstream

The life and films of Werner Herzog.

Tom Bissell Harper's Dec 2006 Permalink

Arts World Movies & TV

A Scorsese in Lagos

On the difficult challenges faced by an auteur in Nigeria’s burgeoning Nollywood film economy.

Andrew Rice New York Times Magazine Feb 2012 20min Permalink