This week we’re excited to present a conversation with Over the Bridge director Tolu Ajayi from a recent Q&A at the Opening Night of the 2024 edition of the New York African Film Festival. Since its inception in 1993, the festival has been at the forefront of showcasing African and diaspora filmmakers’ unique storytelling through the moving image.
In Over t ... Show More
Nov 22
#630 - Black World-Making with the BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions Team
This week we’re excited to present a special conversation from the 63rd New York Film Festival with members of the filmmaking team behind the Main Slate selection BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions, including director Kahlil Joseph, screenwriter Madebo Fatunde, artist Kaneza Schaal, and ... Show More
59m 32s
Apr 2024
Jeff Bridges Makes a Decision
Every year, Film at Lincoln Center honors a luminary of the film industry with the Chaplin Award. This year’s honoree is a beloved screen icon: the Dude, the Starman, the legend—Jeff Bridges. In advance of the 49th Chaplin Award Gala, taking place on April 29, Devika sat down wit ... Show More
43m 20s
Nov 2021
Last Night in Soho with Edgar Wright and Phil Lord (Ep. 328)
Director Edgar Wright discusses his new film, Last Night in Soho, with fellow director Phil Lord in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. The film follows an aspiring fashion designer who encounters an ambitious singer when she mysteriously travels to the 1960s, but their faça ... Show More
33m 32s
Oct 2023
Killers of the Flower Moon with Martin Scorsese and Ti West (Ep. 435)
Director Martin Scorsese discusses his new film, Killers of the Flower Moon, with fellow Director Ti West in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, Scorsese discusses lifting dialogue from real historical accounts when working on the script and its structur ... Show More
33m 57s
Apr 2023
CLOSE — Lukas Dhont's Quietly Powerful Coming-of-Age Movie
<p>In his Oscar-nominated CLOSE, filmmaker Lukas Dhont uses the sparest dialogue, the gentlest music, and the most pastoral of images...to tell a shattering story about the brutal ways society turns boys into men.<br/><br/>We're taking a mid-season break from our series on m ... Show More
18m 20s
Mar 2024
Dunkirk (2017) and Dangerous Minds (1995)
With Christopher Nolan now an Oscar-winner, this particular episode of Film Stories begins by zipping back to 2017, when he had a his first serious drive-by of the Academy Awards. That'd be with Dunkirk, the first time he told a true story on film. It took him a long time to be i ... Show More
56m 19s
Oct 2019
Eyes Wide Shut, l’odyssée de l’énigme
<p>Comme tous les films qui ne se révèlent qu’avec le temps, le cultissime « Eyes Wide Shut » de Stanley Kubrick provoque encore interrogations, théories conspirationnistes et enquêtes minutieuses. Comme celle du journaliste Axel Cadieux, qui signe l’ouvrage « Le dernier rêve de ... Show More
45m 53s
Oct 2023
Reptile with Grant Singer and Louis Leterrier (Ep.434)
Director Grant Singer discusses his new film, Reptile, with fellow Director Louis Leterrier in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, Singer discusses the genres he drew from to achieve his tone, his experience working alongside Benicio del Toro on the ... Show More
31m 27s