DIRECTOR
Halina Reijn on the Sex, Shame, and Power Dynamics That Drive Babygirl
December 26, 2024
The filmmaker talks to Eugene Kotlyarenko about the influences and insecurities that inspired her modern spin on the erotic thriller.
PORTFOLIO
How Rachel Morrison Upended the Sports Movie With The Fire Inside
December 20, 2024
The first-time director talks to Eugene Kotlyarenko about her long fight to get her radical boxing movie on the big screen.
PORTFOLIO
Kyle Mooney on Merging AOL Nostalgia and Apocalyptic Mayhem in Y2K
December 6, 2024
The “SNL” alum and first-time filmmaker talks to Eugene Kotlyarenko about the adrenaline rush of Instant Messenger, the importance of collaboration, and why New Year’s Eve 1999 is the perfect time to set a movie.
PORTFOLIO
How Crystal Moselle and Derrick B. Harden Created the Most Punk Movie of the Year
December 4, 2024
Eugene Kotlyarenko talks to the filmmaking duo about how they pulled off “The Black Sea,” an improvised comedy that turns a Brooklyn man’s unexpected detour in Bulgaria into a deeply inventive tale of survival and connection.
NYFF
Filmmaker Eugene Kotlyarenko Gets Freaky in the Criterion “Bangbus”
October 8, 2024
The director talks depravity and John Waters ahead of the New York premiere of his latest film, “The Code.”
RORSCHACH TEST
Ivy Wolk on Adderall, iPad Babies, and Bisexual Awareness
August 28, 2024
We asked the chronically online and proudly unfiltered actress, who appears in Sean Baker’s “Anora” this fall, to sound off on lying, twinks, 5150’s, and democrats.
eugene's world
Eugene Kotlyarenko is Telling God’s Honest Truth
April 23, 2021
The rogue filmmaker on his completely unearnest aim to “Spree”-ify “Emily in Paris”—and the world.
stranger things
Joe Keery and Finn Wolfhard on the Strangest Thing of All: Social Media
August 14, 2020
“When people see you in this role, they’re going to be like, ‘Holy shit. This is Steve from ‘Stranger Things’ and he is terrifying.'”