Filmmaker Magazine
Filmmaker Magazine, Tyler Coates, Mike Hogan, Eric Kohn, Chris Cassingham, Payton McCarty-Simas, Chloe Lizotte, Leonardo Goi, Keva York, Maxwell PaparellaFrom first spark to final cut, we unpack the art, craft, and business of independent cinema, helping filmmakers make good work and cinephiles see deeper.
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John Travolta on “Propeller One-Way Night Coach”
Propeller One-Way Night Coach.
When I was asked for my favorite discoveries at Cannes this year, “the Travolta” was high on the list. Propeller One-Way Night Coach (2026), John Travolta’s feature directorial debut, premiered on the frantic...
Franklin Leonard on “Sean Combs: The Reckoning” | FYC Outstanding Documentary Series
★★★★
- The Guardian
“DIRECTED WITH CLEAR-EYED PRECISION
BY ALEXANDRIA STAPLETON.”
- New York Amsterdam News
“INCREDIBLY COMPELLING.”
- Vanity Fair
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[WATCH] FRANKLIN LEONARD AND ALEXANDRIA STAPLETON D...
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If Youth Knew: Chie Hayakawa on "Renoir"
Renoir (2026)
Chie Hayakawa’s Renoir (2026) focuses on Fuki (Yui Suzuki), a preteenage girl whose perspective on life is darkened and complicated over the course of her father’s terminal illness. The film is set in 1987, a year or so into...
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I’m a writer and editor living in Los Angeles-ish
Dad, husband, journalist, aspiring amateur musician.
Eric Kohn is the artistic director of the Southampton Playhouse, a film producer, and an adjunct professor at NYU's Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies. He writes the weekly newsletter The Playhouse Post.
Writer: Filmmaker Magazine, Reverse Shot, Documentary Magazine, In Review Online. Editor: In Review Online, and inreviewonline.substack.com.
Author, programmer, film critic.
Content Director, Filmmaker Magazine
Film critic (MUBI Notebook, Filmmaker, The Film Stage, Reverse Shot...), editor (Senses of Cinema), fisherman.
Writer and film critic, based in New York
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