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Jonathan Lisecki (Gayby) Talks Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past

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By Jonathan Lisecki | June 12, 2014

Jonathan Lisecki (Gayby) Talks Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past

X-Men: Days of Future Past has been out for less than three weeks and has already made over $600 million worldwide...

Screenwriter Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith (Legally Blonde) Talks Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child

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By Kirsten Smith | June 11, 2014

Screenwriter Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith (Legally Blonde) Talks Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child

Where has Jenny Slate been all my life? Turns out, for the last few years she’s been doing great, steady work as a supporting actress on shows...

Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) Talks Ti West’s The Sacrament

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By Stuart Gordon | June 10, 2014

Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) Talks Ti West’s The Sacrament

The Sacrament can be described as a “found-footage” film. This term was popularized by The Blair Witch Project in 1999...

James Marsh (Man on Wire) Talks Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida

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By James Marsh | June 9, 2014

James Marsh (Man on Wire) Talks Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida

A couple of times in any given year, if I am lucky, I get to see a great film – best defined as a film alive with new possibilities for the medium...

Jim Hemphill (The Trouble with the Truth) Talks Hollywood’s Prejudice Against the Western

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By Jim Hemphill | June 7, 2014

Jim Hemphill (The Trouble with the Truth) Talks Hollywood’s Prejudice Against the Western

When I read that A Million Ways to Die in the West was underperforming at the box office, my heart sank. Not because I liked the film...

Calvin Lee Reeder (The Rambler) on Doug Liman’s Edge of Tomorrow

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By Calvin Lee Reeder | June 5, 2014

Calvin Lee Reeder (The Rambler) on Doug Liman’s Edge of Tomorrow

Fatalism is a funny thing, I know I wrestle with it. I feel a teaspoon of anger when someone tells me, “Everything happens for a reason.”

Eliza Hittman (It Felt Like Love) Talks Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves

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By Eliza Hittman | June 4, 2014

Eliza Hittman (It Felt Like Love) Talks Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves

I had a rather funny Kelly Reichardt experience at the time of Meek’s Cutoff’s screening at Sundance 2011. I had just arrived at the filmmaker

Josephine Decker (Butter on the Latch) Talks Robert Stromberg’s Maleficent

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By Josephine Decker | June 3, 2014

Josephine Decker (Butter on the Latch) Talks Robert Stromberg’s Maleficent

I argued with my boyfriend about Maleficent and my feelings about it all weekend. The best way I found of expressing my take on it is this...

Riley Stearns (Faults) Talks Alex van Warmerdam’s Borgman

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By Riley Stearns | June 2, 2014

Riley Stearns (Faults) Talks Alex van Warmerdam’s Borgman

I’m a predictable person. Last April, I saw an unsubtitled trailer for a film called Borgman and even though I didn’t understand...

Michael Mohan (Save the Date) Talks Lukas Moodysson’s We Are the Best!

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By Michael Mohan | May 30, 2014

Michael Mohan (Save the Date) Talks Lukas Moodysson’s We Are the Best!

In spring 2005, after learning that Lukas Moodysson’s new film, A Hole in My Heart, was opening only on one screen in NYC...