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Saul Goodman Goes to the Movies: An Interview With 'Saul Goodman v. Jimmy McGill' Author Alan Sepinwall
The veteran TV critic discusses the cinematic influences, obvious and otherwise, that helped shape 'Better Call Saul.'
 • Keith Phipps
Interview: Carrie Rickey on 'A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda'
The critic and scholar discusses her new biography of the pioneering filmmaker and what she discovered while writing it.
 • Keith Phipps
Interview: Chris Nashawaty on the Miraculous Summer Movie Season of 1982
In his new book ‘The Future Was Now,’ Nashawaty explores the summer that produced eight genre classics and how its influence has lingered for decades.
 • Keith Phipps
Interview: Alonso Duralde Discusses 'Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film'
The veteran critic, journalist, and podcaster discusses his sweeping new survey of the history of LGBTQ+ films and talent.
 • Keith Phipps
Interview: 'Spermworld' director Lance Oppenheim
The director of 'Some Kind of Heaven" talks about his new doc for FX/Hulu, which explores the unregulated community of online sperm donation.
 • Scott Tobias
Interview: John Sayles on 'Lone Star'
The legendary independent filmmaker talks about his acclaimed 1996 drama about a decades-old murder mystery in a Texas border town, now in the Criterion…
 • Scott Tobias
Interview: Matt Singer on 'Opposable Thumbs,' his new book about Siskel and Ebert
Our former Dissolve colleague discusses the unlikely rise of two newspaper critics who became influential television icons.
 • Scott Tobias
Interview: Director Carl Franklin on the career-making 'One False Move'
After two decades in the movie business, mostly as an actor, Franklin turned a 1992 crime drama into an unlikely second act.
 • Scott Tobias
Interview: Author Will Leitch Talks About Drawing Inspiration From Robert Altman’s ‘Short Cuts’
Leitch's latest novel, 'The Time Has Come,' follows a handful of characters through a city that's about to be shaken. He had a role model.
 • Keith Phipps
The Termite Artist: An interview with Kelly Reichardt
With her eighth feature 'Showing Up,' Reichardt digs into the day-to-day pleasures (and hassles) of being an independent artist. She talked to us about…
 • Scott Tobias
Interview: 'Colors of Film: The Story of Cinema in 50 Palettes' Author Charles Bramesco
Bramesco's new book traces the history of color movies using fifty remarkable examples that span color filmmaking's low-tech origins through the digital…
 • Keith Phipps
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