Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk both considered their performances in A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE to be among the best of their careers. In this conversation, recorded in Rowlands’s Los Angeles home in 2004, they discuss their roles in the film and the unique experience of working with director John...

Tatsuya Nakadai has acted for some of Japan’s greatest directors, including Masaki Kobayashi, Akira Kurosawa, Hiroshi Teshigahara, and Mikio Naruse, and revealed an impressive range, playing everything from samurai to the bar manager Kenichi Komatsu in WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS. In this 200...

In this interview Oscar-nominated cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto discusses the style and legacy of a master of his craft, Gabriel Figueroa, who shot VICTIMS OF SIN.

In this 2024 interview, film scholar Richard Peña discusses the origins of Cinema Novo and how director Glauber Rocha’s BLACK GOD, WHITE DEVIL helped to establish the Brazilian film movement of the 1960s.

This documentary, produced in 2022, features curator Rhea L. Combs, film scholar Racquel J. Gates, filmmaker Nelson George, and music scholar Shana Redmond, as well as excerpts from archival interviews with director Gordon Parks.

This interview with actress Nancy Allen was conducted in Los Angeles in January 2011.

For film scholar David Bordwell, coauthor of “Film Art: An Introduction” (now in its eleventh edition), HIS GIRL FRIDAY represents the apotheosis of classical Hollywood storytelling. In this 2016 visual analysis, Bordwell illuminates the many elements of Howard Hawks’s movie that demonstrate his ...

BAD TIMING marked the first time Theresa Russell worked with director Nicolas Roeg, whom she later married. In this interview, recorded in Los Angeles, in January 2005, she discusses the film and its impact on her life.

In this 2011 video interview, writer-director James Mangold remembers his CalArts mentor and teacher Alexander Mackendrick, and details how SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS reflects Mackendrick’s central instructions about filmmaking.

In this interview, conducted in September 2013, filmmaker Werner Herzog—whose movie FITZCARRALDO is the subject of Les Blank’s documentary BURDEN OF DREAMS—discusses his admiration for SPEND IT ALL.