Indie Directors
We’re exploring the most exciting voices and storytellers in independent film.
Daily | In the Works | To, Fincher, Mills
Johnnie To Word comes from Twitch‘s Todd Brown that Johnnie To is currently at work on three projects. He plans to direct “a crime thriller …
Daily | Linklater and BOYHOOD Win Golden Globes
Richard Linklater On Sunday night, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 72nd annual Golden Globes awards ceremony, a party thrown by the Hollywood Foreign …
Daily | Godard, Pasolini, Resnais
The introduction is now freely available What with all the year-end lists and awards and winter festival lineups to keep up with, it’s been weeks …
Daily | Goings On | Altman and Lynch
Robert Altman and David Lynch in Cannes in 1997 We begin in New York and with Melissa Anderson, writing for Artforum: “Directed by Robert Altman …
Daily | Books | Watkins, Herzog, Korine
Reissued First off, congrats to Rachael Rakes and Leo Goldsmith, who’ve won a grant from the Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Program to complete their …
Mr. Known Unknown: Godard and His Discontents
‘Goodbye to Language’ You’d think they hadn’t ever heard of Godard. You’d think they’d never heard of modernism, or postmodernism, or understood even remotely what …
Daily | Fellini, Borowczyk, Dabis
Fellini on the set of ‘La Dolce Vita’ (1960) “To savor Federico Fellini it may be worthwhile to temporarily spurn him,” suggests Gary Giddins, writing …
Daily | Goings On | Morrison, Marker, Herzog
Bill Morrison’s ‘The Mesmerist’ (2003) Just a quick update, and we begin in New York, where MoMA notes that Bill Morrison “has spent more than …
Daily | Marker, Lynch, Powell
1957 photo by Chris Marker Chris Marker: Koreans, an exhibition of photographs at Peter Blum in New York, is on view through October 18 and, …
Daily | Scorsese, Godard, Fincher
Jerry Lewis, Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese take a break on the set of ‘The King of Comedy’ “The phrase ahead of its time …