In this intimate conversation, producer Laurie Parker and Rain Phoenix, River Phoenix’s younger sister, discuss the late actor’s commitment to MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO.

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.