The Sin

Jul 30, 2013 — A genuine American movie legend, the eighty-seven-year-old producer and director Roger Corman has been in the film business since the early 1950s. He is perhaps best known for the low-budget horror films he issued with remarkable speed in the early...

Dec 20, 2012 — The Los Angeles–based music producer Flying Lotus (born Steve Ellison) has been working in the electronic music field since the early 2000s. Well known for producing the bumper music for Adult Swim on Cartoon Network, he has also collaborated with...

Sep 13, 2011 — Hollywood has been importing talented European filmmakers at least since the early twenties, when Victor Sjöström and Ernst Lubitsch heeded the siren wail of Tinseltown resources, and their work there has tended to quickly obscure the cultural memory of the...

Dec 11, 2008 — Technical director Lee Kline, just back from Paris, where he worked on Last Year at Marienbad with Alain Resnais, reports: I was a little nervous to show Alain Resnais our new transfer of Marienbad, but I pushed hard to have...

Dec 9, 2008 — Dave Filipi is the Director of Film/Video at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. He has been a fan of the Criterion Collection since the days when laserdisc was king. (Ohio State 42, Michigan 7; photo by...

Oct 16, 2008 — While in New York for the premiere of Ashes of Time Redux, Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-wai and his long-time cinematographer, Christopher Doyle, sat down with Leonard Lopate for the radio host’s daily show. In the course of discussing the...

Jan 21, 2008 — While Agnès Varda was prescient in picking up on the new social phenomenon of France’s young female drifters, she also anticipated the culture of extreme individualism that has come to dominate Western society since the 1980s.

Nov 11, 2002 — Continued from Anatomy of a Love Festival - Part One The real turn-on, though, was the music—twenty-two hours of it, divided into solid chunks that usually ran more than thirty minutes. Friday night was the epitome of what San Francisco...

The singer-songwriter reminisces about the pleasure of discovering Czechoslovak New Wave films on trips to the video store, shares why Moonstruck ignited her Nicolas Cage fandom, and praises the use of classical music in The Piano Teacher.

The singer, songwriter, actor, and producer reminisces about having her mind blown by Céline and Julie Go Boating, shares how watching David Cronenberg’s movies helped her escape the repetitiveness of life on the road and praises the unabashed beauty of...