Indie Directors

‘Little Dieter Needs to Fly’ [Editor’s note: This interview with Werner Herzog regarding Little Dieter Needs to Fly occurred in 1998 at the time of the …

Linklater directing ‘Boyhood’ On Tuesday, I noted that it was “Boyhood week,” not realizing at the time that it’d turn into a week for celebrating …

The July/August 2014 issue It’s Boyhood week. Richard Linklater and his cast have been making the rounds—we posted Sean Axmaker‘s interview yesterday—and, following the Sundance …

Emir Kusturica kisses a bust of Gavrilo Princip in the Serbian village of Tovariševo “It is a cross between a film set, a theme park …

Spike Lee On Sunday, a special 25th anniversary screening of Spike Lee‘s Do the Right Thing will simultaneously close out this year’s BAMcinemaFest and open …

Steven Soderbergh Keeping up with BAMcinemaFest, Edinburgh and Frameline38—not to mention Lav Diaz—has delayed an all-round briefing for nearly a full week (though we did …

Joan Crawford in ‘Johnny Guitar’ (1954) “For all those who witnessed, whether directly or indirectly, his love for each image, each setting, each corner, each …

Godard in 1972 “Jean-Luc Godard, l’insurrection permanente” reads the headline of a piece by Olivier Séguret in today’s Libération. In short, at 83, Godard is …

Austrian-Jewish author Stefan Zweig, the inspiration for ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ First up, J. Hoberman‘s got a new piece in Tablet: “The Immigrant’s phantom director …

Marin Karmitz With the retrospective Carte Blanche: MK2 rolling on a MoMA through June 23, the New Yorker‘s Richard Brody has taken the opportunity to …