Winter, 2026 edition on newsstands now. Cover story, Gaspar Noe interviews "Sirat"s Oliver Laxe. Plus, a 55-page Reflections section on Filmmaker's 33 years.
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In his Considerations column this week, @tylercoates digs into the Emmy prospects of “The Comeback” and “Hacks,” which respectively star sitcom veterans Lisa Kudrow and Jean Smart as characters determined to survive industry collapse.
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“I’m a pessimist, but I haven’t completely lost my sense of hope either.”
Read @dimension__tide in conversation with Chie Hayakawa on her sophomore feature “Renoir,” which screens at @IFCCenter in NYC and @NuartTheatre in LA via @Film_Movement.
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i interviewed Chie Hayakawa about her quite stunning new film 𝘙𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘪𝘳, currently playing @IFCCenter via @Film_Movement, for @FilmmakerMag. thank you @44getting and @celizotte for working with me on this!
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“If we were to take up these parts, Strafer seems to ask, what would still shock us, and what would cease to?”
My first column for @FilmmakerMag, on Jordan Strafer's TALK SHOW at the @whitneymuseum Biennial.
Many thanks to @celizotte & @nataliakeogan!
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Sara Dosa's meditative Sundance doc TIME AND WATER, on glaciers and one Icelandic family's relationship to them, is now in theaters. Here's my interview with @saradosa back in January, for @FilmmakerMag
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Bleak Week, C’est Chic: @CCassingham speaks to the LA programmers from @am_cinematheque who sparked a global phenomenon.
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I'm in @FilmmakerMag w/ a feature on the ever-fascinating Bleak Week, a program that began in Los Angeles @am_cinematheque and now expands to 70 cities worldwide in June. I spoke with programmer @Chris_LeMaire and artistic dir. Grant Moninger about the series' origins and future
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Returning to cut through award season noise is @tylercoates’s Considerations newsletter, which will now decode all things Emmys. Read and subscribe below to stay in the loop:
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The final piece from our spring issue to roll out on Substack is @erickohn’s interview with @BootsRiley and his collaborators on the making of ‘I Love Boosters,’ which hits theaters via @neonrated on Friday.
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Our Cannes coverage kicked off in earnest with @LeonardoGoi’s excellent Q&A with ‘La Perra’ writer/director Dominga Sotomayor. She divulges the process of adapting Pilar Quintana’s 2017 novel, casting the titular canine, and much more.
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Fresh off a midnight Cannes screening of ‘The Fast and The Furuous’ for its 25th anniversary, @kevasyork revs up some thoughts on the first installment in the (yes, still ongoing) franchise—and even reports on Vin Diesel’s custom red carpet fit.
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An early Cannes highlight for @mike_hogan is @firstman_jordan’s ‘Club Kid,’ which he says “refreshes a familiar arc for Bushwick’s club scene.” The film also just sold to @A24 after an intense bidding war.
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For @FilmmakerMag, I spoke about Dominga Sotomayor about her @Quinzaine-premiering LA PERRA: working with dogs, venturing into non-autobiographical terrain, and the thrills of making a film "for the cinema" after her 2025 Netflix production SWIM TO ME: filmmakermagazine.com/133766…
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Tony Leung Chiu-wai on Silent Friend, Cyclo, The Longest Nite and more for Filmmaker @12specialfilms @FilmmakerMag
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Sho Miyake chats with @alexL_E_I about 'Two Seasons, Two Strangers,' which was recently programmed at @NDNF before opening for a limited run @Metrograph. The downtown NYC theater screens the film again at 3:45 this afternoon.
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“In a sense, the movie is a one-hour-and-59-minute-long commercial,” writes @gertsofficial. “But as commercials sometimes do, ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ made me cry.
Read her personal missive from an opening weekend screening at Regal Times Square.
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I wrote about The Devil Wears Prada 2 for @FilmmakerMag and why it made me cry
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Reading this fun @sapphicspielbrg piece for @FilmmakerMag as I head to SIE Denver for another Q&A I’m thinking a lot about this model that’s become normal for filmmakers but has still not been totally integrated into the architecture of film going. (1/5)
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