Writer/Director Matt Ross on Captain Fantastic

Matt Ross is best known as an actor; besides dozens of films on his resume, he’s currently winning laughs and legions fans as narcissistic CEO Gavin Belson in the HBO comedy series Silicon Valley. Before that, Ross was a standout on HBO’s Big Love, playing Alby Grant, the creepy son of the polygamist cult leader played by Harry Dean Stanton.

A Juilliard School graduate, Ross made his feature film debut at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival with 28 Hotel Rooms.

Actress & Director Catherine Corsini on Summertime

French actress and director Catherine Corsini’s most personal film to date, Summertime (the more accurate French title is La Belle Saison) manages the impressive feat of portraying early feminist and gay rights activism as an intoxicating adventure. Set in France in 1971, it captures the heady 1970s and its erotically charged atmosphere of liberation through the passionate romance between Delphine (Izïa Higelin), who moves to Paris from her conservative parents’

Chatting With Legendary Filmmaker James Schamus at the Provincetown Film Festival

James Schamus has been responsible for some of the best films of the last 20 years. The award-winning screenwriter, producer and CEO of quality film juggernaut Focus Features has put his stamp on modern cinema with a slew of stylish, intelligent independent films, which has included producing some of the most respected filmmakers in the industry. These filmmakers have included Todd Haynes, Nicole Holofcener, Michel Gondry, Gus Van Sant, Sofia Coppola, and the Coen Brothers. His creative partnership with Ang Lee has been a quiet,

Husband & Wife Filmmakers on GMO Thriller Consumed

Husband and wife filmmaking team Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister-Jones, who also collaborated on 2012’s Lola Versus, have joined forces again to tackle the murky world of GMOs to create the thriller Consumed. The film is directed by Wein and stars Lister-Jones as a mother with a sick child who is propelled into a dangerous world when she believes GMOs might be the cause of his mysterious illness.

Talking to Weiner Directors Josh Kriegman & Elyse Steinberg

When co-directors Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg started making Weiner in 2013, two years after their subject had resigned from the U.S. Congress because of a sexting scandal, Anthony Weiner seemed to be a comeback kid. He was making a second run for mayor of New York, and this time the polls predicted success. Then more embarrassing e-mails and inappropriate cellphone photos surfaced, and Weiner's campaign hit a wall of media derision and voter disgust.

Ryan Coogler on his Black Panther Film & More

Chadwick Boseman's turn as Black Panther in Captain America: Civil War was one of the most satisfying parts of the film. While a lot of the buzz post Civil War has focused on Tom Holland's Spider-Man and the incredible second act climax that featured Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) doing something huge, we've seen these characters before. Boseman turn as Black Panther was the first time the character has been seen on the big screen,

Writer/Director Whit Stillman on his Jane Austen Comedy Love & Friendship

Most of the characters in Metropolitan, writer-director Whit Stillman's 1990 debut, are wealthy young Manhattan sophisticates with an enthusiasm for the artifacts of a refined past — notably, the novels of Jane Austen. Stillman's movie just happened to be followed by a rush of Austen adaptations.

Now the filmmaker has made his own Austen movie, Love & Friendship, which opens in limited release today, May 13.

The Lobster Continues Director Yorgos Lanthimos’s Singular Path

Yorgos Lanthimos has come far since his film debut 15 years ago, with his name now a veritable indie-film buzzword after creating such cinematic oddities as Alps and Dogtooth. The director is set to make his English-language debut with the Colin Farrell-starring The Lobster, but the Greek native has been making films for fifteen years now, establishing a backlog of films worth a closer look.

Captain America: Civil War Directors Joe & Anthony Russo

As the much-anticipated third installment of Marvel’s Captain America franchise hits theaters today, we catch up with directors Anthony and Joe Russo. The brothers discuss how they addressed the challenge of cramming so many of Marvel’s superheroes into Captain America: Civil War, how they subverted the genre by creating a film with no clear villain and playing good cop bad cop on set.

Captain America: Civil War is getting great reviews.

The Good Wife director Rosemary Rodriguez Talks About the Show’s End

When The Good Wife premiered in 2009, it was a different type of show. It had many of the elements of a procedural — weekly court cases and stand-alone proceedings — but it also featured a strong premise that helped the show build intriguing long-term storylines, strong relationships and truly memorable characters. Even when cable and premium shows began dominating many of the major Emmy categories, CBS’ The Good Wife stood out and was the last network show to be nominated for best drama at the Emmys (a feat it accomplished in 2011). 

Chatting With Elvis & Nixon Director Liza Johnson

In December 1970, Elvis Presley decided he wanted to become a federal anti-drug agent, and that the right man to give him the badge was no less than President Richard Nixon. As a much-reproduced photograph proves, the meeting really did happen. Elvis & Nixon, director Liza Johnson's third feature, reconstructs the event, with Michael Shannon as the King and Kevin Spacey as the Prez. The cast also includes Colin Hanks and Evan Peters as Nixon aides Egil Krough and Dwight Chapin,

Building a Ghost City in the Desert for Tom Hanks’ A Hologram for the King

In A Hologram for the King, Tom Hanks' American businessman Alan Clay visits an eerily deserted "city of the future" eager to firm up his appointment with the King of Saudi Arabia. Instead, he learns only that a meeting might happen at some vague point in the future. "It's a very strong image to see Tom in his black suit standing there in the middle of the desert,"

Talking to Documentarian Randall Wright About Hockney

Filmmaker Randall Wright has documented painters Lucian Freud (Lucian Freud: A Painted Life) and David Hockney (2003’s Secret Knowledge) which Wright made for the BBC. But his latest, Hockney, which opens April 22, is a far more in-depth and personal look at the artist, now 77, known for his sun-drenched California pools and domestic scenes. Hockney gave the director access to his personal archive of photographs and films;

Director Karyn Kusama on the Quietly Sinister The Invitation

Despite her early success with Girlfight (and later Aeon Flux and Jennifer’s Body), it’s been nearly eight years since Karyn Kusama has directed a film, preferring instead to work in television, directing episodes of shows as varied as AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire and Hulu’s Casual. Thankfully, the filmmaker has ended her cinematic drought with The Invitation,

Writer/Director Ben Falcone on The Boss, Working With Wife Melissa McCarthy & More

In The Boss Melissa McCarthy stars as Michelle Darnell, a megalomaniacal businesswoman who has to rebuild her life with the help of her long-suffering former assistant (Kristen Bell) after a stint in federal prison. We speak to director, co-writer, co-producer, and McCarthy’s husband Ben Falcone, about working with his wife again- he also directed and co-wrote the 2014 McCarthy vehicle Tammy– how they resolve problems and geeking out over Peter Dinklage.

Don Cheadle on Co-Writing, Directing & Starring in Miles Ahead

Don Cheadle co-wrote, directed, and stars in Miles Ahead, an impressionistic riff on the life of iconic musician Miles Davis. Cheadle was determined not to make a traditional, chronological story. “I wanted to make a movie that Miles Davis would want to star in. Much more than something that you could just read in an autobiography or you could read or see in a documentary that made sure to check all the important boxes.

Writer/Director Musa Syeed on his Quiet, Moving A Stray

For Musa Syeed, a sense of place, past and culture are indelible parts of his work. A son of immigrant parents, the filmmaker has never failed to create compelling, quietly interesting narratives whether in documentary or fiction film that are uniquely grounded in the communities in which they are set. Previously, the filmmaker made the international Valley of Saints, (which he spoke to The Credits about in 2013) a complex love story teeming with the culture and lush setting of Kashmir.

Uncovering the Secrets of The Wizard of Oz Doc The Slippers

Few films have captured the American imagination quite like The Wizard of Oz. Despite its age, the film remains a fabulously imagined time capsule representative of the ingenuity and creativity possible in filmmaking. Though much of the film’s output has become unquestionably iconic, it’s the ruby slippers that are arguably the most memorable piece of culture to last the 77 years since the film’s initial release. But the slippers have had a surprisingly troubled past,

Melissa and Winston Rauch’s Golden Script for The Bronze

In Bryan Buckley's The Bronze, co-written by star Melissa Rauch and her husband Winston, a small town girl who was once America's sweetheart has gone to seed in the most American way possible; by milking her minor celebrity for freebies and handouts. Rauch plays Hope Ann Greggory, a former gymnast whose gusty performance on a ruptured Achilles heel at the world’s most prestigious gymnastics tournament earned an unlikely bronze medal for the U.S.

SXSW 2016: A Q&A With the Writer/Director, Production Designer & Producer of American Fable

Many first time directors might find themselves tempted to make their debut entrance into the world of filmmaking with simple, festival-ready fare, but for Anne Hamilton, the writer and director of American Fable, that approach just wouldn’t do.

Standing as easily one of the most visually striking films to play at this year’s SXSW, American Fable is what Hamilton & Co. have labeled as a “fairytale thriller”