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The Power Brokers: Telluride 2026
Telluride Film Festival, Labor Day Picnic. Photo by Vivien Best.
There isn’t quite an analogue to the Telluride Film Festival in American film culture. It’s noncompetitive, but it kicks off the Oscar race. It’s held in a chic and pricey an...
At Home with John Wilson
We’re pleased to share the first excerpt from our fall issue, which is hitting newsstands just as John Wilson’s The History of Concrete comes to theaters. Enjoy, and subscribe today.
Clockwise from left: John Wilson, Clark Filio, and Nelli...
The Indefatigable Patricio Guzmán
To honor the passing of the great Chilean director Patricio Guzmán, we are revisiting this 2020 interview from our archives.
The Cordillera of Dreams (2019)
Patricio Guzmán is indefatigable. For over 50 years, the Chilean director has chr...
Screen Acting “Can Be Bland”: Isabelle Huppert on Performance as a Disappearing Act
All About Corinne (2026)
“I’m not particularly striking,” Isabelle Huppert contends when I ask if she ever fantasizes about fading into the background. “There are a lot of situations where I can easily blend in.” Less self-deprecating than...
Christine Choy’s Chronicles of Difference
Photograph of Christine Choy. Courtesy of Third World Newsreel.
“If someone got really fucked over by the American system and they didn’t have a voice, that’s what I was interested in representing.” This response to a question about the fo...
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Content Director, Filmmaker Magazine
Critic, reporter, and novelist. Writing in The New Yorker, Bookforum, Vogue, The Nation, and elsewhere. Debut novel Herculine out now.
Freelance journalist and author based in Philadelphia, PA. Follow her work at kim-kelly.com
writer & critic, of film, television, animation, what-have-you
joanne's website https://joannemcneil.com joanne's books https://bookshop.org/shop/jomc
Originally from Seattle, Steve Macfarlane is a curator, writer and cartoonist based in Ridgewood, New York. His debut graphic novel THEY SAVED BIDEN'S BRAIN will be published by ACE Theater in 2026.
Freelance writer. Air Bud admirer. Favourite cheese: Gouda.
Anthony Kaufman is a film programmer, film journalist, and film teacher.
Writer: Filmmaker Magazine, Reverse Shot, Documentary Magazine, In Review Online. Editor: In Review Online, and inreviewonline.substack.com.
A girl with a tomoyo tattoo + a freelance writer and translator
Donbas-born Ukrainian Film Critic and Scholar
Freelance film writer, focusing on action cinema
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