Indie Directors

‘To Kill a Man’ It’s become something of a running joke amongst cinephiles how the Film Society of Lincoln Center can often times take a …

Ken Jacobs’s ‘Celestial Subway Lines’ (2003) In the new issue of desistfilm, David Phelps interviews Ken Jacobs and José Sarmiento Hinojosa explains why Jacobs’s work …

In the new issue of Scope, Charles Burnett writes about ‘Pastoral and Meaningful Despair in ‘Palindromes’ (2004) and ‘Dancer in the Dark’ (2000)’ From Catherine …

‘Elephant’ When we think of movies, we always start with the visuals, which come straight at you, as film editor Walter Murch describes it. “You …

‘Night Moves’ In Night Moves Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgard play three environmental activists, who, for different reasons, decide to blow up a local …

Steve Jobs The news of the day, going by all the noise out there, was broken by Variety‘s Justin Kroll: David Fincher is “in early …

‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night’ New York’s Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art have announced the lineup for …

Anne Carlisle in ‘Liquid Sky’ Once the Berlinale started, news updates around here stopped—not altogether, but just about. So, we’re catching up. Yesterday, it was …

A guide to an imaginary museum While he works on his book on the American cinema of the 1940s, David Bordwell carries on posting away. …