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Dec 4, 2018 — Jon Dieringer is the founder of Screen Slate, a volunteer-run website and daily newsletter providing listings and commentary on repertory, independent, microcinema, and gallery screenings and exhibitions in New York City. He is also a media art archivist at Electronic...
Dec 3, 2018 — Born in 1981 in Fiesole, Italy, Alice Rohrwacher studied in Turin and Lisbon. She has worked in music and documentary projects, and has also worked as an editor and composer for theatre. Her first feature, Corpo Celeste, made its world...
Nov 12, 2018 — Born in Iran, Ali Abbasi gave up his studies at Tehran Polytechnic University in 2002 and traveled to Europe, where he finally settled in Stockholm, Sweden, to study architecture. In 2007, he graduated and subsequently enrolled at the National Film...
Oct 24, 2018 — An international star who has delivered acclaimed performances in the popular television series The Walking Dead, Bong Joon-ho’s Okja, and Lee Chang-dong’s Burning, Steven Yeun tells us about the “wise grace” of Tokyo Story, the brutality of RoboCop, and other...
Oct 15, 2018 — John Grant is an Iceland-based musician who has sold out Royal Albert Hall and performed at Glastonbury, Latitude Festival, and elsewhere. Following the demise of his first band, the Czars, Grant left music entirely for over five years, only to...
Sep 26, 2018 — Hari Nef is an actress and model. A graduate of Columbia University, Nef stars in the recently released feature film Assassination Nation. Other credits include Transparent, You, and Camping. She is currently the face of the fragrance Gucci Bloom.
Aug 29, 2018 — Philadelphia native Jeremiah Zagar’s first feature-length film, the documentary In a Dream (2008), premiered at the SXSW Film Festival and screened theatrically across the U.S. and in film festivals around the world. It was broadcast on HBO, shortlisted for an...
Jul 18, 2018 — Alan Rudolph is a pioneer in the American independent film movement. He has directed nineteen narrative features and one feature-length documentary. His films have been presented in major international festivals for forty years and are noted for their fluid style,...
Jun 27, 2018 — Austin-based duo David and Nathan Zellner are the directors of the new film Damsel. They have also worked together on the films Kid-Thing (2012) and Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014). Their selections below are listed in no particular order.
Jun 13, 2018 — Ari Aster received his MFA in Directing from the AFI Conservatory. He has written and directed several short films, including The Strange Thing About the Johnsons (2011), Munchausen (2013), and Basically (2014). His films have played the New York Film...