An imaginary friend is forced to consider retirement when his creator/best friend starts to grow up.
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June 2018
Sexo Y Tortillas – Directed by Priscilla Alvarez
An American woman flies to a small town in Mexico to visit her estranged auntie. She is a traveling saleswoman. What she sells shocks the culture and vibrates the town, but it also brings women together.
June 2023
Q&A with Sean Mullin
When did you first start noticing a disconnect between Yogi Berra’s reputation and the player the stats showed him to be?
Sean Mullin: I think that’s what this was all about. When I started doing the research, I was like, wait, this guy was criminally overlooked.
February 2023
Q&A with Laura Poitras
The following questions and answers are excerpted from a conversation that followed the NBR screening of All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. You really weave so many stories together so beautifully in the film. How did you and Nan weave in and out of each other’s lives? Laura Poitras: Nan and I have intersected, sometimes literally […]
August 2017
Q&A with Kumail Nanjiani, Emily Gordon, and Zoe Kazan
How long did it take for you both to adapt your own experiences for the screen?
Emily Gordon: We started writing this five years ago, which is five years after the events of the movie.
November 2020
Q&A with Kirsten Johnson
Sometimes as a documentarian, you don’t have total control. But it this film you were able to script things and envision scenarios.
Kirsten Johnson: Honestly I was trying to engage in not being in control.
April 2023
Q&A with Kelly Reichardt
How did you get from First Cow to this story?
Kelly Reichardt: Well, both films were written with Jonathan Raymond and we started out with this idea of making a film of this little-known Canadian painter, Emily Carr. We wanted to focus on a ten-year period of her life when she was a landlord.
August 2014
Q&A with Ira Sachs, John Lithgow, Marisa Tomei, and Alfred Molina
Mr. Sachs, can you tell us about developing the story?
Sachs: This is my fifth feature, and all of my films – while not strictly autobiographical – are very personal to me, and connected to my own life on some level.
September 2023
Q&A with David Petersen, Steven Melendez, and Mary Recine
How did the project begin?
David Petersen: So it began at a dog park, where all projects have to start!
February 2025
Q&A with Sean Baker and Mikey Madison
Anora is such an intense and ferocious character, but there’s an understated vulnerability. How did you weave that into the performance?
Mikey Madison: I always saw her as someone who was deeply vulnerable on the inside but is constantly protecting herself by covering it up with anger and spunk.
September 2025
Q&A with Scarlett Johansson, June Squibb, Erin Kellyman, and Chiwetel Ejiofor
Scarlett, how long have you been thinking about directing?
Scarlett Johansson: I’ve been thinking about directing since I was a kid, really, but the first time was when I was doing The Horse Whisperer, and I was working with Bob Redford and watching him command the set.
April 2025
Q&A with Ryan J. Sloane and Ariella Mastroianni
When did you decide to make this project together?
Ariella Mastroianni: Well, Ryan and I, we grew up together. We’ve known each other since high school, and we immediately bonded over films.
August 2025
Q&A with Giovanni Tortorici
What was it like working with Luca Guadagnino as a producer, and as a mentor? Did you ever have to defend your choices?
No, it was totally the opposite because as a director, he understood all my artistic needs. He protected me from anything that took away from artistic needs.
July 2024
Q&A with Annie Baker, Julianne Nicholson, and Zoe Ziegler
Why did you decide to set this story on screen and not on stage?
Annie Baker: It’s never like an intellectual decision. For me it’s very instinct driven. What is a play and what is a movie?
June 2018
LIFELINE – Directed by L. Marcus Williams
She is a woman in despair who calls a suicide hotline not for help, but to say goodbye. He is the operator who takes her call, who must do everything he can to keep her on the line. Will he lose her, or will she find the will to live?