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Isabelle Stever and Anna Melikova on Making a Queer Migration Drama in Wartime Ukraine
A version of the following interview was originally published in Pardo, the Locarno Film Festival’s official daily magazine. The conversation has been expanded and edited for republication in Filmmaker.
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Matthew Rankin on the Enchanting Specificity of “Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney”
Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney (2026)
One cold February day in Ottawa in 1976, the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada held its seventh leadership convention, its first in nearly a decade. The PCs were at a crossroads. With form...
Emmanuel Marre on “A Man of His Time,” a Present-Tense Period Piece
A Man of His Time (2026)
Not to put too fine a point on it, but: A Man of His Time (2026) is a film for our time. Beginning in September 1940, during World War II, Emmanuel Marre tracks a hanger-on named Henri (Swann Arlaud) who secures a...
That’s a Wrap on Gotham Week
The Shorts-to-Features Showcase filmmakers. Photograph by Prisca Edwards.
As another Gotham Week comes to a close with today’s Filmmaker Presents: Final Cut, we’re looking back on six days jam-packed with screenings, panels, meeting...
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Content Director, Filmmaker Magazine
I write about movies and host the podcast The Last Thing I Saw. Author of THE WORLDS OF HAYAO MIYAZAKI (September 16, 2025). Bylines: New York Times, Sight & Sound, Filmmaker, W Magazine, Screen Slate. Editor-in-chief of Film Comment back in the day.
joanne's website https://joannemcneil.com joanne's books https://bookshop.org/shop/jomc
Freelance writer. Air Bud admirer. Favourite cheese: Gouda.
Anthony Kaufman is a film programmer, film journalist, and film teacher.
I'm a writer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. Work has appeared in GQ, Esquire, Vulture, and elsewhere. Films at NoBudge. Look out for 'The Big Game' in 2026.
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Brazilian writer and critic in New York
A regional alliance strengthening independent film exhibition in NYC through audience development, research and more.
Film critic (MUBI Notebook, Filmmaker, The Film Stage, Reverse Shot...), editor (Senses of Cinema), fisherman.
Deputy Editor, Filmmaker Magazine
Charles Carrall is a critic living in Sydney, Australia. He is also the Program Manager at Sydney Film Festival.
Brandon Harris is the author of Making Rent in Bed-Stuy (2017), director of Redlegs (2012) and A Fresh Hell (2027). Harris has worked as a studio executive (Amazon), producer (If I Go Will They Miss Me) & programmer (Indie Memphis).
Yasmina Price is a New York–based writer and film programmer. She is devoted to visual culture from the African continent & diaspora, anticolonial cinema, and the experimental work of women filmmakers.
Jordan Cronk is a film critic and the founder of the Acropolis Cinema screening series. He’s a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and a program advisor for the Directors’ Fortnight section at Cannes.
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