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Sep 18, 2019 — Adam Sandler plays a jeweler addicted to risk in the brothers’ new exhilarating—and exhausting—new film.
Jun 19, 2019 — Jeremy Workman is a documentary filmmaker and award-winning editor of movie trailers, specifically for art-house, documentary, and foreign films. His latest documentary, The World Before Your Feet, was released to critical acclaim last November and played in movie theaters into...
Mar 8, 2019 — San Diego–based filmmaker Lev Kalman was born in 1982 and has been making films with Whitney Horn since 2003, when they were undergraduates in New York City. Their distinctive style blends lo-fi 16 mm photography, dreamy electronic music, philosophic musings,...
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Oct 29, 2018 — Professor Jeff Smith breaks down how François Truffaut’s loving tribute to the crime genre Shoot the Piano Player uses anamorphic widescreen compositions to stylish effect.
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Jul 30, 2018 — Retrospectives of the French master’s work are playing in New York and Berkeley, with Washington to follow in September.
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...
Aug 25, 2017 — Janicza Bravo is a writer and director based in Los Angeles. She was raised on an army base in Panama City and studied directing and design for theater at NYU before mounting plays in the U.S. and abroad. Her film...
Jul 7, 2017 — Canadian-born filmmaker Alison Maclean emigrated to New Zealand as a teenager and later attended Elam Art School in Auckland. After making Kitchen Sink (1989), still arguably the most successful short film to come out of New Zealand, and her debut...
May 11, 2017 — Steve Gunn is regarded as one of the finest guitar players of our era. The Philadelphia native got off to an early start in high school punk bands before establishing himself as a player in different genres and touring internationally....
Apr 21, 2017 — Nathan Silver graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2005. Since then, he has written and directed four short films and eight feature films: The Blind (2009), Exit Elena (2012), Soft in the Head (2013), Uncertain...