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Slow Burn: Dispatch from Cannes
All of a Sudden
The wearied refrain—Cannes 2026 was a ho-hum edition, no masterpieces to see here, take the earlier flight home—obscured the quiet revolution taking place in film after film. This was a year of stories that build: All of a Sudden, The Dreamed Adventure, and La Gradiva are accumulative works, beautifully wrought and devastating in different ways, but not in the white-knuckle, nerve-racking manner of last year’s Sirat or It Was Just an Accident. Again and again, I had the sense of these movies having a bodily impact on me—not a wham-bam blow, but a more incremental emotional effect, as if the filmmakers were instilling a sense of dramatic muscle memory within me as I watched. That’s how All of a Sudden,… Read more
Live From Cine Gear Expo 2026
Cine Gear Expo
If NAB Show seems to inspire a mini–existential crisis in me each year, as I am forced to reckon with cinema’s diminishing relevance amidst other growth arenas in video, Cine Gear Expo invites more optimistic vibes with its film focus and Hollywood backlot setting. Cine Gear acts as a two-day gathering of Los Angeles cinematographers, gaffers, and lighting technicians to check out the latest gear and see what everyone has been up to over a beer and maybe a hot dog, if one is lucky enough to get invited to an offsite barbecue. I made plans to meet up with Alec Moeller (New Faces class of 2022), who—while very knowledgeable about vintage lenses—didn’t strike me as the gearhead type. He confirmed as much… Read more
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
