Barbara Kopple Looks Back on American DreamFilmmaker Magazine
American Dream Set in Austin, Minnesota, a company town where nearly every resident has a connection to food-processing giant Hormel Foods, Barbara Kopple’s American Dream (1990) embeds with unionized Hormel meatpackers as they respond to a 23 percent hourly wage…
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Tina Fey Reveals the Greatest Forgotten ‘SNL’ Sketch Featuring Will Ferrell
[Editor's Note: The following contains The Four Seasons Season 2 spoilers] Summary Collider's Steve Weintraub talks with the cast of Season 2 of Netflix's The Four Seasons. Tina Fey and Will Forte discuss David Tennant and that series finale cliffhanger.…
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By His Hand Interview: Taylor and Ethan Paur on Crafting an Intentionally Challenging Cult Escape Film
In the heart of Salt Lake City, two brothers—Taylor and Ethan Paur—have created something deliberately unconventional. Their debut feature film, By His Hand, is a neo-western cult thriller road chase film that refuses to be a crowd-pleaser. And that’s entirely…
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Elliot Tuttle Discusses His Transgressive Blue FilmFilmmaker Magazine
Blue Film Blue, as it pertains to the material and sociopolitical histories of cinema, is a color associated with legend, conjecture, and etymological ambiguity. During the heightened moral panic and puritanical tyranny of Hays Code–era Hollywood, blue grease pencils were…
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‘Spider-Noir’ Star Breaks Down How That Colossal Finale Fight Changes Everything for Sandman
Editor's note: The following contains spoilers for the Spider-Noir finale. Summary In the Prime Video series 'Spider-Noir,' Spider-Man is reimagined as a PI named Ben Reilly in 1930s New York. Sandman is a tortured, layered antihero tied to Cat, and…
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Indie Film Economics 101: Why Daril Fannin’s Kino Studios Model Could Change How Filmmakers Think About Budgets
In a conservative religious compound in the Southeast, a young Daril Fannin was told that television was the Devil’s tool—that Satan would use the small screen to control their minds. His bedroom, his parents’ bedroom, the kitchen, and the living…
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âA Growing Sense of Freedomâ: Sho Miyake on Two Seasons, Two Strangers
Two Seasons, Two Strangers Amidst a surge of interest in contemporary Japanese cinema in the West, Sho Miyake is not yet a household name—but his reputation is only growing. Since graduating from the Film School of Tokyo, Miyake has been…
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‘The Boroughs’ Creators Address the Biggest Unanswered Questions From Season 1 [Exclusive]
[Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for The Boroughs Season 1] Summary Collider's Steve Weintraub talks with the creators of Netflix's The Boroughs, Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews. The duo discuss their collaboration with executive producers the Duffer Brothers, the…
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Nicholas Ma’s Mabel: Coming-of-Age Story About a Girl and Her Plant Companion
In an era when coming-of-age stories often lean heavily on nostalgia or cynicism, Nicholas Ma’s Mabel offers something refreshingly different: a tender exploration of isolation, connection, and growth through the lens of an unlikely friendship. The film tells the story…
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Tony Leung and Ildikó Enyedi on Silent FriendFilmmaker Magazine
Silent Friend The Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai has worked with some of cinema’s most accomplished directors. Known for his collaborations with Wong Kar-wai and John Woo, Leung has also appeared in films by Johnnie To, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Ang…
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Prime Video’s New Action Thriller Features The Fastest Car Chase Ever Filmed in London
Summary Collider's Steve Weintraub talks with John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, and Michael Kelly for Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War. The trio discuss why returning to the Prime Video series as a movie was the right move, A Quiet Place…
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Foreign Tongue Director Boris Mojsovski: ‘Foreignness Is Not a Flaw, But a Perspective
After a freak accident leaves her speaking with a Bosnian accent, Kathy is suddenly seen as a stranger in her own world. What begins as an unfortunate linguistic mishap becomes a gently absurd journey into the immigrant experience—one she never…
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