Sep 4, 2020 — Amy Seimetz is a filmmaker and actor. In 2012, she released her directorial debut feature, Sun Don’t Shine. Her latest feature film as a director is the acclaimed She Dies Tomorrow, which is now available on most VOD platforms. Seimetz...

May 12, 2016 — When director Amy Heckerling visited Criterion, she reflected on her days as a struggling filmmaker, the allure and disappointment of moving to the West Coast, and her love for old-Hollywood actors.

Sep 7, 2018 — F ew filmographies encapsulate the rebellious spirit of American cinema in the seventies better than that of Hal Ashby, who crafted an astonishing string of movies that stretched across the span of the decade. Finding success as an editor early...

Sep 30, 2016 — Amy Fine Collins is special correspondent to Vanity Fair, where for over twenty years she has written features about fashion, art, Hollywood, and society. An arbiter and owner of Vanity Fair’s international best-dressed list since 2003, she was inducted into...

Amy Abugo Ongiri is a professor and the director of Ethnic Studies at the University of Portland. Their book Spectacular Blackness explores the cultural politics of the Black Power movement, particularly the Black Arts Movement’s search to define a “Black...

Amy Taubin wrote regularly about movies for the Village Voice for fifteen years and for Artforum and Film Comment even longer. She lives and still writes a lot in New York City.

Apr 27, 2023 — The critic and filmmaker has put together a series that celebrates “a New York of the collective imagination.”

Feb 17, 2017 — Did You See This? In a wide-ranging and moving new interview with online film magazine Bright Wall/Dark Room, Guillermo del Toro discusses the political power of art, the election of Donald Trump, and the way that film “exists in a...

The actor and star of Crossing Delancey reminisces about the first film her family watched together at the drive-in, praises the depth of Liv Ullmann’s performance in Cries and Whispers, and shares her intimate connections to Blue Velvet and Days...

The director of Fast Times at Ridgemont High talks about one of her favorite actors, Peter Lorre; Federico Fellini’s “ultimate explanation of creativity”; and her choice for the most heartbreaking film of all time.