Salute Your Shorts: The Music Videos of Michel Gondry

By Sean Gandert at 2:50 PM on April 23, 2009

Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored.In its short history as a quasi-medium, music videos have produced a fair amount of directors-to-watch, from Anton Corbijn to David Fincher, but rarely has it been a place for artists to grow into maturity. For the most part, when a video director has moved onto bigger (not necessarily better) new things the videos point to their later interests but don’t really follow them. This is only natural, considering that you can’t tell what kind...  read more

Catching Up With... Felicia Day

By Josh Jackson at 10:30 AM on April 22, 2009

As a television actress, Felicia Day's biggest roles have included eight episodes on Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and single guest spots on shows like House and Monk...  read more

Tibetan Film Speaks for Itself

By Douglas Heselgrave at 4:46 PM on April 14, 2009

Until recently, movies about Tibet haven’t wavered much from the formula established by Frank Capra’s 1937 epic Lost Horizon, in which plane-crash victims discover...  read more

Salute Your Shorts: Godard, Truffaut and A Story of Water

By Sean Gandert at 4:30 PM on April 2, 2009

The French New Wave more or less began with Claude Chabrol’s first films, but by the end of 1960...  read more

Salute Your Shorts: Spike Jonze Skate Videos

By Sean Gandert at 2:15 PM on March 26, 2009

Back before he was directing feature films, Spike Jonze was best-known as one of the few auteur music-video directors. But before he was directing music videos, he was directing...  read more

Catching Up With... I Love You, Man's Jason Segel

By Jason Guerrasio at 3:25 PM on March 23, 2009

It’s hard not to root for the Judd Apatow Clan. Whether it’s Seth Rogen, who became the new face of comedy overnight with the success of Knocked Up, or journeyman Paul Rudd...  read more

Salute Your Shorts: Fleischer Studios

By Sean Gandert at 5:00 PM on March 12, 2009

Earlier this week, Winstar released a new restoration of Fleischer Studios’ Gulliver’s Travels. As the first non-Disney animated feature film made in America, it was a historical milestone...  read more

Art-House Cinema

By Jason Killingsworth at 8:00 AM on March 11, 2009

Read our 4th Annual Art-House Issue cover package, featuring Greta Gerwig and Joe Swanberg, the best movie houses in America and more...  read more

Catching Up With... Dean Wareham

By Aaron Jentzen at 3:30 PM on March 9, 2009

When the Andy Warhol Museum decided to commission a live soundtrack to accompany Warhol’s silent film portraits, known as “screen tests,” they called up old friends Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips...  read more

Salute Your Shorts: Selections from Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film 1947-1986

By Sean Gandert at 4:50 PM on March 5, 2009

As far as artistic forms go, avant-garde films are definitely one of the most obscure ones out there that are culturally recognized. Historically, it was because not only were these films...  read more

Catching Up With...Watchmen illustrator Dave Gibbons

By Matt Goodlett at 8:00 AM on March 5, 2009

There's a tiny detail in one of the scenes from Watchmen that's indicative of the graphic novel's larger complexity...  read more

Catching Up With... Christopher Guest

By Henry Freedland at 2:00 PM on March 2, 2009

The film auteur discusses going on tour to perform acoustic Spinal Tap songs and creating "meditation music" with The Beyman Bros...  read more

Greta Gerwig & Joe Swanberg: The Penny-Pinching Future of Indie Cinema

By Steve Dollar at 7:50 AM on March 2, 2009

There’s low-budget guerrilla filmmaking and then there’s low-budget guerrilla filmmaking...  read more

A Peek Inside the Sundance Film Composers Lab

By Jesse Jarnow at 7:40 AM on March 2, 2009

Sundance’s Meal Tent is not actually a tent...  read more

Have Penis Gun, Will Travel: New York's Coolest, Weirdest Indie Film Festival

By Steve Dollar at 7:30 AM on March 2, 2009

They say the glory days of 42nd Street grindhouse are long gone...  read more

Behind The Sky: Technological Progress and Indie Cinema

By Jesse Jarnow at 7:20 AM on March 2, 2009

Increasingly, independent film is neither independent nor on film...  read more

The Best Movie Houses In America

By Matt Parish at 7:15 AM on March 2, 2009

For many of us, film is religion, and there is no more hallowed temple than the local independent movie house...  read more

Trend Spotlight: America's Emotional Realism

By Robert Davis at 7:10 AM on March 2, 2009

A wide spectrum of American filmmakers have, in the last year, embraced a radical brand of emotional realism that borrows...  read more

Salute Your Shorts: The Lonely Island

By Sean Gandert at 2:27 PM on February 26, 2009

By the time The Lonely Island was finally discovered by the masses with its viraltastic Chris Parnell collaboration “Lazy Sunday,” the group had already been hard at work for a...  read more

Coraline Hits the Screen, Stage and Page

By Montana Wojczuk at 8:00 AM on February 25, 2009

While author Neil Gaiman is perhaps best known for...  read more