Life underground: how a notorious Nazi’s extradition from Bolivia gave rise to a radical film project in a mining town ...

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On today’s Podcast, Eggers joins Film Comment Editor Devika Girish to discuss why he wanted to make Dracula “scary” again, ...

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And if you back off from that stuff, you’re shooting right down into lukewarm junk." “I don’t know if you’re a detective or a ...

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An example: a brilliant Brazilian director and friend, João Jardim, made a beautiful documentary in 2001 called Window of the Soul that he brought to me for the mix. The first scene is a close-up of a ...

Real-life stories of grisly crimes have always had a primal pull on our collective imagination. It’s now axiomatic that if there’s anything that sells better than sex, it’s true crime. In the last ...