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Inspired

Inspired: Paul Schrader on Oh, Canada

By Jordan Cronk
October 2, 2024
Up north: the master filmmaker discusses how a lingering case of COVID-19 and a novel by his late friend gave rise to his newest feature

Paul Is Alive

By Andrei Ujică
January 24, 2022
Yesterday: the director of The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu recalls a fateful encounter with an artistic hero

Cutting Edge

By Joi McMillon
May 24, 2021
The Underground Railroad editor and regular Barry Jenkins–collaborator Joi McMillon details her formative influences

Personal Hell

By Janicza Bravo
May 8, 2020
In Janicza Bravo’s hyper-vivid Zola, a woman joins an unpredictable new friend on a road trip into chaos and violence

Inspired: Feast of the Epiphany

By Michael Koresky
November 27, 2019
Table manners: the inspirations behind the sumptuous documentary-fiction hybrid from Koresky, Jeff Reichert, and Farihah Zaman

Killing for a Living

By Rodrigo Prieto
September 27, 2019
The cinematographer of Martin Scorsese’s much-anticipated The Irishman evokes the passing of eras for a dedicated, deadly workingman

Surface Funk: On Manny Farber

By Kelly Reichardt
April 17, 2019
Burrowing in: the director of Certain Women reflects on the abiding influence of Farber's writing and “termite art”

To Each Her Own

By Kent Jones
March 29, 2019
Kent Jones shows his fidelity to evoking the weather-beaten reality of living in his dramatic debut feature, Diane

Inspired: The Spoken Word

By Barry Jenkins
November 1, 2018
The adaptation of If Beale Street Could Talk is guided by James Baldwin’s ever living writing