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You ready for the best news you’ll hear all month? Fresh off his Best Director and Best Picture wins at the Oscars for The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro is one of the most in-demand filmmakers in Hollywood, and his next big move has been made. Fox Searchlight Pictures has announced today that they’ve inked a deal that’ll see Del Toro create a new genre label for the company!

A look at the spiritual side of del Toro. By Priscilla Page.

Kevin Abstract joins legendary director Spike Jonze for a wide-ranging conversation on the Launch Left podcast.

If this is the last thing you ever read, it will be worth it. By Jordan Bates.

The director Robert Bresson used his camera to observe humans so nakedly that the resulting films can seem cruel. Yet Bresson’s gamble was to turn these acts of theft and violation into a way of conferring power on the models themselves. By Max Nelson.

In the British filmmaker’s epic documentaries, the world as we know it is pulled back to reveal a complex web of history, technology and power. By Jonathan Lethem.

All of a sudden The Purge: Election Year became a stand-in for America’s violent, cynical, stupid cinema—the exact opposite of everything Kiarostami stood for and everything he achieved over four and a half decades of filmmaking in Iran and elsewhere. By A. S. Hamrah.

The Story of an SF Horror Game-Changer

Lewis Bond

This list of personal favourites was assembled by myself and Edgar Wright in July 2016. Films are in chronological order. By Sam DiSalle.

There was a reason none of the teens in the legendary director's films were real rebels, but rather outsiders with an eye on upward mobility. By Soraya Roberts.

The controversial director explains Love, his film of sex, heartbreak, and 3D cum shots.

The director on what it's like to be unplugged from the internet and why he would make an excellent survivalist.

Joss Whedon offers some clarification on his stepping away from the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Watch 23 films online by the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock. Completely free.

Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach create a hilarious and hectic picture that returns us to their signature themes of life crises and tragicomic delusions

Type the name “Dorothy Arzner” into Netflix's search bar and you’ll get zero results. It’s an odd outcome, considering Arzner, a prolific golden age film director, has 16 feature films—among the most of any woman in Hollywood, ever. She gave Katharine Hepburn one of her first starring roles. She navigated the transition from silent films to talkies... By Ella Morton.

Seth Gordon is in negotiations to direct Dwayne Johnson in Paramount's bigscreen adaptation of the TV series

Despite transparent light and searing heat, all seems frozen. Something clings to the landscape. Amidst Joshua trees and sagebrush, an ineffable presence surrounding