Extras Archives - Bright Wall/Dark Room

Two films featuring Michael Nyman's "Fish Beach" seem so utterly opposed that it’s hard to believe they could share anything at all, but a deeper shared resonance can be drawn out thanks to the particular ways that Nyman’s style of composition works upon picture and viewer.

Finding The Balance Between Humor and Pathos: The Zellner Brothers on Damsel

Dan Schindel·

Interviews

"People are really complicated–even if they make mistakes, there's always some redeeming quality there. You try to inject something familiar into them."

Short Film Spotlight: Aquaculture

Ethan Warren·

Short Film Spotlight

Much of the exhilarating appeal of Artemis Shaw’s short, Aquaculture, lies in its assured harnessing of uncanny dissonances.

Getting into a TIFF

Zosha Millman·

Festivals

There are worse ways to ride out the pandemic than mainlining some three dozen or so movies in a week, finding delights where you least expect them.

Death is the Curator: An Interview with Guillermo del Toro

Lauren Wilford·

Interviews Issue 44: True Stories

Lauren Wilford goes long with director Guillermo del Toro on art, life, death, morality and movies.

South-By-Pacific-Northwest

Zosha Millman·

Festivals

There were days where I couldn’t believe how lucky I was to be able to sit with loved ones and share these first-time viewings in real time, and others when the combination of quarantine cabin fever and less-than-stellar runs of films made it seem like everything would be mediocre. A privilege and, 32 movies, shorts, and episodes later, a pile-up.

Stranger In A Very Slightly Strange Land

Charles Bramesco·

Festivals

Charles Bramesco attends TIFF.

Fran at the Festival: Reflections on NYFF ’18

Fran Hoepfner·

Festivals

Seeing movies is a gift, and I can’t wait to go back next year.

I Love To Love: Dispatches from NYFF 59

Fran Hoepfner·

Festivals Issue 100: Transcendence

As I walked up the steps to the Walter Reade theater, I couldn’t help but feel a sense of triumph, my first day back on campus. Everyone was there! In line, tired, clutching cheap coffee and festival badges. Some people got haircuts. Even the grumps were buzzing, happy to finally have some place to be.

An Interview with Allison Janney

Chad Perman·

Interviews Issue 41: Margaret

"I’ve gotten better at letting it go, but something like that scene sort of stays with you for a bit. It’s hard to shake that off after the work is done. It definitely involved a really long hot shower and maybe a bath and a martini or something."

Tomorrow’s Cinema Today: A Final Report from TIFF ’18

Charles Bramesco·

Festivals

"While this critic’s average number of films taken in at the TIFF usually hovers around 30, the 2018 festival delivered the highest percentage yet of selections I could recommend in good faith."

On Subtitles: Notes from the Periphery

CJ Sheu·

Extras

The seventh art is a perceptual assemblage born of collaborative effort, and it can pay to consider some of the less prominent elements.