SCENE STEALER
Meet Yura Borisov, Anora’s Unlikely Heartthrob
November 21, 2024
As “Anora” gears up for an awards season push, the film’s secret weapon talked to us about working with director Sean Baker and finding the soul in his character, Igor.
ACTOR
Mikey Madison Tells Isabelle Huppert How She Became Anora
October 21, 2024
On the heels of a career-making performance in Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning drama, the “Better Things” star is joined by the French acting icon to discuss the power of the female body, her new puppy, and the role that has everyone talking Oscar.
NYFF
Curator Dennis Lim Takes Us Inside the 62nd New York Film Festival
October 4, 2024
A few days into the New York Film Festival, Jeremy O. Harris sat down with programmer Dennis Lim to discuss this year’s formally diverse slate of movies.
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.
BDSM
Joanna Arnow Tells Sean Baker How to Direct a Movie While Getting Spanked
May 10, 2024
The director of “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed” got on Zoom with fellow filmmaker Sean Baker to talk Letterbox’d, BDSM, and working with her parents.
Contender
Life Minus Expectations Equals Happiness: Simon Rex’s Next Act
December 10, 2021
The actor and former MTV VJ talks to Zachary Quinto about why his new movie “Red Rocket” is the latest twist in his unexpected career.
Gillian Jacobs Wants to Be Hannah Marks When She Grows Up
March 30, 2020
In the movie industry, quadruple threats don’t come much younger than this.
The Florida Project captures the fleeting promise of happiness
October 4, 2017
The latest from Sean Baker—the breakout director of 2015’s iPhone-shot sleeper hit Tangerine—is a sickly sweet look at life under the shadow of Disneyworld’s Magic Mountain.