The Many Shades of Ira Sachs
Ira Sachs won’t let me watch him bum cigarettes. We’ve spoken for hours—about what it was like to grow up…
Author: john_rodzvilla
On the Same Page
Earlier this year, I got a call from a friend of a friend—a former executive producer of a children’s television…
What Rolled Up Must Come Down
Written by? Created by? Screenplay by? Screen credit can define a writer’s career—in fact, the exact words that rolled up…
Piecing It Together
Shortly after Jean-Luc Godard released Breathless in1960, an exasperated journalist said to the young director: “Surely you think that a…
On The Scene
New York cinephiles will endure a great deal of discomfort to see great independent films: the noise of the F…
What if nobody “gets” my film?
Dear Doc Doctor: Nobody seems to like my film—they say it’s unclear and hard to follow. Why aren’t they getting…
Turning Books into Scripts
Scott Heim’s 1995 novel, Mysterious Skin, makes for an unlikely film. The story of two eight-year-olds from Kansas who are…
Back to Feature
A long time ago, in a film school far, far away (from NYU), a young man with big dreams and…
Q/A: Ryan Gosling
Ryan Gosling brought me flowers when we met for this interview on a hot Sunday in July. Our earlier scheduled…