The fall 2026 issue is here. Featuring the 25 New Faces of Film, John Wilson, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, David Greaves, and James Gray’s soundscapes.
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So happy to be profiled for @FilmmakerMag 25 New Faces of Film!
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"If you survey young writers and directors, you’ll find a lot of people who feel compelled to do one of these jobs because it’s the only way to do the other."
Max Cea on why many artists with ambitious original ideas feel like they have to do it all:
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On the 53rd Telluride Film Festival, for @FilmmakerMag
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Pleased to reveal @neonrated's trailer for David Greaves’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM, which revisits footage shot in 1972 by his father, William Greaves, at a gathering of Harlem Renaissance luminaries.
Find Greaves in conversation with Garrett Bradley in our fall issue!
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Dolly Parton and Tim Curry were "extremely intentional about their presence in the culture, wanting to leave a meaningful mark rather than simply take up space."
In our weekly editor's letter, @celizotte pens a remembrance of two magnetic performers:
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"Beverly understood how to communicate with filmmakers emotionally. That changed the entire culture." — Bradford Young
Kya Lou moderates a roundtable with film chemist Beverly Wood and cinematographer Bradford Young on the alchemy of color correction:
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Take a deep dive into the world of Niu Lai, a bolt from the blue, outsider art blockbuster. @celizotte writes in our weekly editor's letter:
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An essay about the films of Ari Aster would come back to haunt Sophie Lewis in ways she couldn't have predicted.
@GrimKim interviews the feminist scholar about her horror movie review that unexpectedly ended up at the center of a domestic terrorism case:
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“If you’re tapped into what’s going on in the indie film scene, then you’ve probably heard of [IT ENDS].”
The film team behind IT ENDS tells Chris Cassingham (@CCassingham) about the role the @letterboxd Video Store played in their journey to theaters:
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I'm in @FilmmakerMag today talking to the team behind the ACTUALLY great Gen-Z horror film of year, "It Ends", about their unconventional journey to theaters. filmmaker.substack.com/p/the…
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"I had to let life dictate the shots."
Dylan Adamson (@mesneezing) interviews Lorena Alvarado about her entrancing debut feature LOST CHAPTERS, a hybrid mystery cut from the cloth of real life:
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It's the summer of Samy Burch. @celizotte speaks with the screenwriter about her incredible run of screenplays for COYOTE VS. ACME, LATE FAME, and MAY DECEMBER, as well as her earliest shorts with Kate Berlant and John Early:
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Still feels surreal saying this, but I interviewed Kiyoshi Kurosawa for @FilmmakerMag!! We talked at length about how the experience of making The Samurai and the Prisoner challenged his long-held filmmaking philosophy.
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"I saw the area as a stage for their ever-shifting relationship. [...] At times, it can seem like heaven; at other times, like hell." — Kiyoshi Kurosawa on THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER.
Jawni Han (@kimchimarx ) speaks with the J-horror auteur:
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"It's important to me that these works are earnest—not sentimental, but not coming from a place of cynicism." — Jane Schoenbrun (@sapphicspielbrg )
From our summer issue, Grace Byron speaks with Schoenbrun about TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA:
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Excited to share my @FilmmakerMag debut on CONTOUR and the indie action films of Eric Jacobus. filmmaker.substack.com/p/app…
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the new Matt Johnson Bourdain movie gave me fresh eyes on his earlier work, especially BlackBerry’s depiction of Canadian tech brain…..some thoughts (& briefly on Nirvanna) for the @FilmmakerMag Friday newsletter:
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"TONY fits neatly alongside [Matt] Johnson’s other movies, in which characters make decisions informed by the allure of masculine cultural archetypes—and the thin, often self-deluding line between alpha males and beta males."
@celizotte writes:
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"Twenty years ago, a movie filmed for a couple thousand bucks in the Bay Area delivered action sequences that left most Hollywood offerings in the dust."
Read @JonahJeng 's appreciation of CONTOUR, Eric Jacobus's low-budget action masterpiece:
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"We did what we wanted to do, not what we should have done."
Out from behind the paywall: B. Ruby Rich speaks to Yashaddai Owens about JIMMY, now playing @IFCCenter and elsewhere.
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