The Interview

Jun 12, 2017 — Informed by his work in theater and his travels through rural America, Nicholas Ray brought an outsider’s perspective to genre filmmaking in his debut feature.

Mar 21, 2014 — The great documentary filmmaker Errol Morris has interviewed his share of daunting subjects, from former Secretary of Defense Robert NcNamara to the electric-chair technician Fred Leuchter Jr. (a.k.a. Mr. Death). But in this excerpt from an interview on our new...

Dec 16, 2007 — The music I play in the front office gets a lot of comments—from “What’s that beeping noise?” to “Wow, you really love that Timberlake album.” Of late, several people have commented on the profusion of Talking Heads and Madonna coming...

Gabriel Miller is Professor Emeritus of English at Rutgers University. He is the author of The Films of Martin Ritt: Fanfare for the Common Man and editor of Martin Ritt: Interviews, and has written books on Clifford Odets and William...

Jason Wood is the executive director of public programs and audiences at the British Film Institute. A widely published author on cinema and popular culture, he has written on and interviewed Atom Egoyan numerous times. He is also the codirector,...

Oct 2, 2025 — The festival presents new films from Gianfranco Rosi, Kahlil Joseph, Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus, and Lucrecia Martel.

Nov 5, 2019 — What began as an artificially stoked-up controversy has led to a vital statement on the present and future of cinema.

Nov 8, 2023 — Both America’s largest and the world’s largest documentary film festivals open today.

Feb 11, 2022 — The director discusses the making of his 1979 cult road movie, Radio On, which is now streaming exclusively on the Criterion Channel, and the influence of New German Cinema on his visual style.

Aug 17, 2021 — This month we’re reading about Hollywood memoirs, cultural histories, and the revived debate over the screenplay for Last Year at Marienbad.