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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The next installment of Mark Asch’s (@MarkAschParody) FESTIGRAPHIX is here! For all those studying the relative quantities of incest, ovation, and anachronism in this season's cinematic offerings, read on...
“The earth comes to seem a pliant, transient material, acted upon by the skies.”
Maxwell Paparella (@44getting) on Johann Lurf’s FOREVER...FOREVER, a structural film that sends the world speeding through the gate of its custom-built 65mm camera.
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“Norm Macdonald’s gift was to do the best imitation of himself at all times.”
Adam Nayman (@brofromanother) on Judd Apatow’s new documentary, a victory lap through the comedian’s impressions and provocations in which the man himself remains a cipher.
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Wrote about Norm (and NORM) for @FilmmakerMag. filmmaker.substack.com/p/nor…
“Even before the festival began, its programming was nearly eclipsed by controversy.”
Dessane Lopez Cassell on the tumultuous latest edition of FIDMarseille, including resistance, boycotts, and meaningful solidarity in the film community.
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Introducing FESTIGRAPHIX. To put this season's new films into context, we solicited the expert analysis of Mark Asch (@MarkAschParody). Here is the first dossier of his findings.
“If you don't know where you've been, you don’t know where you're going.”
Garrett Bradley speaks with David Greaves, whose ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM documents a meeting of Harlem Renaissance luminaries convened by his father, William Greaves, in 1972.
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“Leigh manages to capture at once our interconnectedness and the grave distance that separates us; as one narrative unfolds, countless others scaffold its realism.”
Saffron Maeve on Mike Leigh's TENDER LOVING CARE.
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Hugo Emmerzael (@HugoEmmerzael) speaks to Isabelle Stever and Anna Melikova about balancing fragile tenderness with political urgency in I RARELY WAKE UP DREAMING, now playing at @theNYFF. filmmaker.substack.com/p/isa…
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i wrote about TIFF, VR, movies about acting, and Matt Barats’s great Anchors Aweigh:
“So many movies this fall season are obsessed with arguing for cinema’s right to exist.”
Chloe Lizotte (@celizotte) on I PLAY ROCKY, ELSINORE, PRIMETIME, and Big Tech's imagined crisis of cinema. filmmaker.substack.com/p/sof…
“So many movies this fall season are obsessed with arguing for cinema’s right to exist.”
Chloe Lizotte (@celizotte) on I PLAY ROCKY, ELSINORE, PRIMETIME, and Big Tech's imagined crisis of cinema. filmmaker.substack.com/p/sof…
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“Verisimilitude is less and less interesting to me as a filmmaker.”
for @FilmmakerMag, i interviewed Matthew Rankin about his hilarious, surreal dive into Canadian conservative political arcana, Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney filmmaker.substack.com/p/mat…
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Was delighted to talk with Beatrice Gibson about her transfixing first feature AT NIGHT, screening twice this weekend @TheNYFF, for @FilmmakerMag. filmmaker.substack.com/p/bea…
Our art director, Charlotte Gosch of studio other types, walks us through how she designed the cover for the fall issue, featuring John Wilson and Baby.
"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!
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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