Filmmaker is heading, next issue, into our 24th year, and it struck me that if you strung together our interviews with Ira Sachs, who has appeared in this magazine since his first feature, The Delta, in 1996, you’d have a pretty good micro-history of the American independent film movement. Sachs is deeply ruminative about his own process, and he’s enormously self-aware about his own place in the broader moviemaking apparatus. I always look forward to reading the transcripts of his interviews, and there’s usually an answer or to that gets me thinking — or, in the case of his talk […]