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Colbert, Kimmel, and the Battle of Late Night
The Late Show
While covering the Academy Awards may have its challenges, the Emmys are a much bigger venture. Twenty-three awards will be handed out at the Primetime Emmys on September 14, honoring nominees across the comedy, drama, and limited series categories, plus variety and reality competition shows. Meanwhile, about 100 more Emmys are awarded in craft-focused categories (and, randomly, guest acting) at two Creative Arts Emmy ceremonies a week before the main show. If all of this weren’t enough to keep up with, the Television Academy’s ever-changing rules and regulations also mean its award categories are in constant flux. Take, for example, a new rule this year that prevents a performer from being nominated as a guest actor for a role they’ve previously… Read more
The Gotham EDU Announces 2026 EDU Film and Media Career Development Program Cohort
The Gotham EDU Film and Media Career Development Program 2026 cohort
The Gotham, Filmmaker’s publisher, announces today the cohort of the 2026 edition of The Gotham EDU Film and Media Career Development Program. The eight-week virtual program will allow college students from across the country to glean insight from industry professionals via opportunities that include mentorship, curated sessions, and pitch feedback. Each student will pursue one of six distinct tracks offered in their field of interest: the Sidney Poitier Initiative Track for Multi-Hyphenates, the Executive Leadership and Ambassador Track, the Television/Episodic Creator Track, the Documentary Filmmaker Track, the Narrative Filmmaker Track, and the Entrepreneurship in Media Track. Among previous industry speakers are professionals from Netflix, MGM, MACRO, UTA, ColorCreative, NBCU, Blumhouse, NEON, SFFILM, Kinema, and WILLA, in addition to independent producers, television… Read more
I Shot I Shot Andy Warhol
I Shot Andy Warhol
Before she brought the charismatic serial killer Patrick Bateman to life in American Psycho (2000) Mary Harron devised a portrait of another kind of New York pathology with I Shot Andy Warhol (1996). When I went to college, there was a poster for the film hanging in the hallway of the cinema studies building: Lili Taylor, patron saint of 1990s indie cinema, staring down the camera with a gun in her hand. Even then, I knew the story carried a particular charge. Valerie Solanas was the radical feminist who shot the pop artist, nearly killing him, and her 1967 SCUM Manifesto remains one of the most intriguing documents of 20th-century radical feminism. Harron’s debut feature follows Valerie (Taylor) through the margins… Read more
“I Hope They Boo”: Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim Take Cannes
"Tim & Eric Made It 2 Cannes"
Laurel and Hardy, Martin and Lewis, Nichols and May… Tim and Eric. A double-act for the ages, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim first teamed up as students at Temple University in Philadelphia, and secured comedy-legend status with their chaotic-good surrealist sketch show Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! (2007–2010), produced for Adult Swim. Like public-access TV beamed through a cracked funhouse mirror—this nineties kid recalls how much those first viewings felt like some kind of illicit initiation rite—Tim and Eric managed to remake internet culture, and maybe even American humor, in its own, gleefully psychoactive image. In the intervening 15-odd years, Heidecker and Wareheim have embarked on diverse solo ventures. Together with Gregg Turkington, Heidecker has forged another gonzo comedy universe in the… Read more
Taiwan International Doc Fest: The Island a Stage
Archive: Li Guang-hui (1979/2024)
In 1998, the Taiwan International Documentary Festival held its first edition, a decade after martial law was lifted in the island nation. It was a particularly exciting moment for documentary in Taiwan: independent video activism was on the rise, and new models of community media pointed to alternative structures for production and distribution. And yet, apart from Yamagata (founded in 1989), there were not many festivals of politically engaged nonfiction that specifically championed regional Asian cinema; the inaugural TIDF featured both an Asian Visions Competition and a Taiwan Competition strand. In its 15th edition this May, TIDF continued to explore the breadth of political nonfiction Asian cinema, across a program featuring both new and recently restored films. One of the most… Read more
John Travolta on Propeller One-Way Night Coach
Propeller One-Way Night Coach
When I was asked for my favorite discoveries at Cannes this year, “the Travolta” was high on the list. Propeller One-Way Night Coach (2026), John Travolta’s feature directorial debut, premiered on the frantic first Friday night, when no one knew exactly what to expect. Before the screening, and following a highlights reel of the star’s career, Thierry Frémaux bestowed an honorary Palme d’Or on Travolta, who was touchingly grateful. But what, we in the packed theater wondered, would his film about a boy’s first airplane flight in 1962 look like? The answer was an absolutely charming portrait of experience, with a loving attention to detail and sense memory that arrives on screen in living color as if intact from Travolta’s own childhood. Propeller One-Way… Read more
