Directors

When Cajun American screenwriter and director Seth Savoy, 28, took his script to the Sundance Film Festival in 2015, and won an independent pitch competition, it put him on a trajectory that would kick-start his career. Five years later, that pitch became the first building block in his debut feature film, Echo Boomers, the story of a group of broke and disillusioned college graduates who break into Chicago’s wealthiest homes.

In a way, Antonio Campos has been preparing through many years and several movies to make his most ambitious film yet, The Devil All the Time, an adaptation of the novel by Donald Ray Pollock that premieres this week in Netflix with a cast that includes Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Bill Skarsgård, Haley Bennett, Riley Keough, Sebastian Stan, Jason Clarke, and Mia Wasikowska, among many others. From his first feature film, Afterschool, which premiered in Cannes in 2008, the New York native has been obsessed with complicated human behavior and death, something he further explored in Simon Killer, which debuted at Sundance in 2012, and Christine, which premiered at the same festival in 2016.

It is very tempting, when opening Josef von Sternberg's autobiography, “Fun in a Chinese Laundry”, to go straight to the pages about Marlene Dietrich. For many cinephiles, their names are forever linked.

German actress, screenwriter, director, and producer Maria Schrader directed Netflix’s hit Unorthodox. The miniseries tells a very specific story about a young woman, Esther, who really wants to be a part of her religious society and has very high hopes for her marriage, but ends up in an unbearably unhappy situation.

In 1916, the Ushigomekan cinema, in Tokyo’s Kagurazaka district, used to play only foreign films. This is where six-year-old Akira Kurosawa remembers seeing “a lot of American action serials, like The Iron Claw, Hurricane Hutch, The Tiger’s Footprints, many others starring William S.

The (tiny) percentage of female directors in film has been a persistent Hollywood sore spot. Meanwhile, it is TV that has been making the biggest strides in equality.

Ever since his directorial debut with Get Out Jordan Peele has been carving out a unique artistic terrain altering and subverting familiar formulas. With his new film Us, he has made a horror film with a black family as the leads.

In the third installment of our quest to find out which are the stars' favorite movies, we learn how other people's work - actors, directors, writers - shape our interviewees' own performances.

In part II of our exploration of fandom by stars (with fans of their own.

It was a delightful surprise during this Sundance Film Festival. Usually, the idea of a film with a non-professional cast depicting a small story inside a close-knit community may not be so appealing, but the freshness and authenticity with which first-time director Joshua Weinstein infuses Menashe overcomes those hurdles.