Indie Directors

But isn’t every day #HerzogDay? “Happy #HerzogDay!” announced the BFI this morning, and the hashtag’s been a lively resource for clips, articles—we’ve got 24 of …

Cover art by Melody Krauze The “many aspects of labour on film” is the theme of the new issue of cléo and who’d be better …

Pedro Almodóvar on the set of ‘Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!’ Criterion releases Pedro Almodóvar’s Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990) on DVD …

Leslie Cheung in ‘Days of Being Wild’ (1990) “Leslie Cheung was a phantom,” wrote Adrian Martin in 2003. “Wong Kar-wai, his best director, and powerhouse …

Tacita Dean’s ‘Film’ was an installation on view at the Tate Modern in London in 2011 and 2012 “Would anyone dream of telling young artists …

Steven Soderbergh “I came out of Che a different filmmaker. What we all learned from that was very applicable here, which is to strip everything …

Willem Dafoe as Pier Paolo Pasolini Certainly one of the most anticipated films of the upcoming fall festival season is Abel Ferrara’s Pasolini, featuring Willem …

Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy Once again, it’s Catherine Grant who alerts us to two new issues. Introducing Alphaville 7, editors Ian Murphy and Gwenda …

“Can’t we leave him as he was: a beautiful maelstrom of dissembling?” We’ve mentioned Brando’s Smile: His Life, Thought and Work before—reviews from David Kirby …

When Medicine for Melancholy came out in 2008, it announced the arrival of a talent with a genuinely unique vision, San Francisco-based filmmaker Barry Jenkins. Following …