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Nick Pinkerton

TCM Diary: Gerd Oswald

By Nick Pinkerton
August 11, 2017
Expressive esoterica: the director of A Kiss Before Dying, Crime of Passion, and Brainwashed had a knack for depicting misfits

Interview: Mario Adorf

By Nick Pinkerton
August 4, 2017
The German-Italian job: an actor who worked with Siodmak, Wilder, Straub-Huillet, Peckinpah, Fassbinder, and many others discusses his varied career

Interview: Tizza Covi

By Nick Pinkerton
May 5, 2017
High-wire act: the co-director of Mister Universo discusses her hybrid fiction approach and the circus of cinema

Interview: Frank Vitale & Stephen Lack

By Nick Pinkerton
May 3, 2017
Nothing to lose: two seminal figures in Montreal's independent cinema scene chat about their films and the changing city

Playing Along: Deep in the Forest

By Nick Pinkerton
May 3, 2017
Tracing the sonic dreamscapes that power the mysteries of Twin Peaks

Sundance Interview: Dustin Guy Defa

By Nick Pinkerton
March 13, 2017
Support your local: the director of Person to Person discusses capturing a lived-in New York on film

Review: Free Fire

By Nick Pinkerton
March 3, 2017
(Ben Wheatley, UK, A24, Opens April 21)

Sundance Interview: Terence Nance

By Nick Pinkerton
March 3, 2017
I'm feeling lucky: the director of An Oversimplification of Her Beauty examines black identity through a live performance staged through Google

Sundance Interview: Rachel Rossin

By Nick Pinkerton
March 3, 2017
Re-make, re-model: a VR installation inspired by Zabriskie Point's explosive finale embraces the chaos and the control of the new medium

Festivals: Sundance 2017

By Nick Pinkerton
March 3, 2017
Brownstones over Park City: although Brooklyn was over-represented at this year's festival, the borough offered plenty of standouts from up-and-coming independent filmmakers

Festivals: Berlin

By Nick Pinkerton
February 27, 2017
Celluloid is colder than death: a crucial rediscovered Fassbinder work headlined the restorations and revivals at this year’s Berlinale

Interview: Alex Ross Perry

By Nick Pinkerton
January 27, 2017
The things left unsaid: the director of Golden Exits discusses his family-centered drama and the joys of solitude

You Talkin’ to Me?

By Nick Pinkerton
January 3, 2017
Martin Scorsese wrestles with religious belief and philosophical inquiry in Silence, a work of stark cinematic power and moral vulnerability

Review: Things to Come

By Nick Pinkerton
November 24, 2016
(Mia Hansen-Løve, France/Germany, Opening December 2)

Interview: Deborah Stratman

By Nick Pinkerton
November 17, 2016
Local legends: the director of The Illinois Parables describes her audiovisual lasagna approach to filmmaking

Short Take: The Illinois Parables

By Nick Pinkerton
November 3, 2016
(Deborah Stratman, USA, Opening 
November 16)

Talking in Circles

By Nick Pinkerton
October 4, 2016
In the era of social media, criticism may be losing sight of film itself

Directions: Roger Corman

By Nick Pinkerton
September 6, 2016
Pennywise producer-director Roger Corman on getting it made

Short Takes: Last Days in the Desert

By Nick Pinkerton
May 3, 2016
(Rodrigo García, U.S., 2016)

Review: Everybody Wants Some

By Nick Pinkerton
March 3, 2016
(Richard Linklater, U.S., 2016)