We spoke with the director about the influences behind his grand adventure, nesting important themes into the story, crafting the epic action setpieces, advancing 3D printing technology, 10 years of Laika, what he thought of Travis Knight's Bumblebee, and more....
Bested only by Spirited Away, Titanic, and Frozen, Makoto Shinkai's 2006 anime Your Name. is one of the highest-grossing films in Japan's history and now th...
"Do you ever feel an itch to make movies again?," we asked Béla Tarr during a lively conversation earlier this year at Berlinale, where he presented a new r...
The cinematic treasure trove that is The Criterion Channel launched yesterday, providing access to over 1,000 films from Criterion and Janus Films, along with g...
The directing duo of Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin have gone to grand, dangerous lengths to deliver hair-raising cinematic experiences with the l...
While his most ambitious film thus far–the peculiar, yet compelling Downsizing–was his least well-received, Alexander Payne aims to bounce back by going a w...
With the proliferation of ride-sharing apps, I imagine those reading this have had a few unpleasant experiences, but they don't quite compare with what driv...
After his globe-trotting, multi-lingual adventure Okja, Bong Joon-ho returned solely to South Korea for his follow-up, a smaller-scale, mysterious drama tit...
Throughout his career as a director, Terry Gilliam has aimed to portray the outlandish and disorderly in imaginative, transportive ways. His greatest achievemen...
Jordan Raup is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Film Stage and a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic. Track his obsessive film-watching on Letterboxd.
