Spring 2026
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Facing the Music: David Lowery and Chloé Zhao Dig Into Mother Mary
David Lowery and Chloé Zhao have been friends and collaborators since January 2012, when they met as fellows in the annual Sundance Screenwriters Lab. In the years since, both directors have found artistic and commercial success. Much as Zhao has alternated between Nomadland and Hamnet on one hand and The Eternals on the other, Lowery has given us deeply personal films like The Green Knight as well as mainstream fare like Peter Pan & Wendy. In fact, it’s the delta between those two approaches to filmmaking, and the identity questions that arose while switching between them, that inspired his latest […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Apr 1, 2026 -
Perfect Eleven: Harry Shearer Remembers Rob Reiner
I first became aware of Rob Reiner as a member of The Committee, an improv group that began in the early 1960s in San Francisco and then, as some members moved south where the showbiz work was, opened a branch in Los Angeles. Of course, I became more aware of him, like most of America did, as a character derisively known as “Meathead” in the ground-breaking sitcom All in the Family. But he started making an impact on me personally when he’d show up to see his friend David L. Lander (later TV’s Squiggy) as part of the comedy group I […]
by Harry Shearer on Mar 31, 2026 -
Talk Is Cheap: Radu Jude on Kontinental ’25
From Pearl White’s Perils of Pauline to Antonioni’s aimless, quasi-somnambulant heroines, the wandering woman has a venerable history in cinema. The figure has given filmmakers a vehicle for formal experimentation and narrative risk and stories organized less around destination than duration, encounter, and drift. With Kontinental ’25, Radu Jude continues his exploration of wandering women, this time through Orsolya (Eszter Tompa), a bailiff reeling after the suicide of her most recent evictee—a former athlete turned squatter living in abandoned buildings in the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca. Guilt or shame? Humiliation or distress? Jude doesn’t delineate Orsolya’s feelings so much as […]
by Ricky D'Ambrose on Mar 27, 2026
