Interviews News Stories Exhibition Features Roll the Dice: ON SWIFT HORSES Director Daniel Minahan on Redefining the American Dream Chad Kennerk • Apr 24th For two decades Daniel Minahan has quietly shaped the modern television landscape, lending a sharp eye and fearless storytelling to HBO series such as Six Feet Under, Deadwood, Big Love, True Blood, and Game of Thrones, as well as FX’s... Exhibition Features Healing Hands: Director Ami Canaan Mann Captures Good Medicine in AUDREY’S CHILDREN Chad Kennerk • Mar 28th Audrey’s Children sheds light on the legacy of a woman ahead of her time. Dr. Audrey Evans, a pioneering physician in pediatric oncology, left an indelible mark on millions. Filmed on location in Philadelphia, where Dr. Evans’ revolutionary work unfolded,... Exhibition Features Bird’s Eye View: Director Peter Cattaneo and Actor Steve Coogan Examine THE PENGUIN LESSONS Chad Kennerk • Mar 28th The Penguin Lessons takes inspiration from Tom Michell’s memoir of the same name to tell the remarkable story of a disillusioned Englishman who rescues an oil-slicked penguin and gains an unlikely feathered friend. Set against the political turmoil of 1976... Exhibition Features Drawn Together: Director Pete Browngardt and Voice Artist Eric Bauza Blast Off with THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP: A LOONEY TUNES MOVIE Chad Kennerk • Mar 14th Where there’s a will, there’s a wabbit. Or in this case, a duck and pig. Back on the big screen 90 years after Porky’s debut in March of 1935, The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie celebrates... Exhibition Features Take Great Pains: Directors Dan Berk and Robert Olsen Punch Up the Action Comedy in Paramount Pictures’ NOVOCAINE Chad Kennerk • Mar 13th Arriving in theaters on Pi Day, March 14th, Paramount Pictures’ Novocaine tells the story of everyman Nate (Jack Quaid), whose rare genetic condition renders him unable to feel pain. His quiet, cautious life as an assistant bank manager is disrupted... Exhibition Features Unveiling Obsession: Filmmaker Atom Egoyan on Fusing Film and Opera in SEVEN VEILS Chad Kennerk • Mar 7th Following his 1994 film Exotica, which explored desire and obsession, Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan was invited to direct the opera Salome in what would become the first of many productions he would helm parallel to his prominent film career. Egoyan’s... Exhibition Features Be a Doll: COMPANION Writer/Director Drew Hancock Steps Outside the Box Chad Kennerk • Jan 31st In theaters January 31st from Warner Bros. Pictures, Companion is an unhinged horror-adjacent genre exploration with a fresh, original take on the ‘cabin in the woods’ scenario. Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid star as Iris and Josh, a young couple... Exhibition Features Loving Your Neighbor: BETWEEN BORDERS Writer/Producer Isaac Norris on Bringing the Refugee Experience to Cinemas Chad Kennerk • Jan 24th In theaters January 26-28 from Fathom Entertainment, Between Borders explores one family’s journey to find home. Between 1988 and 1994, several hundred thousand Armenians were displaced from Azerbaijan due to violence and ethnic cleansing, including the film’s real-life subjects, Violetta... Exhibition Features Ready Camera One: SEPTEMBER 5 Actor Ben Chaplin Reflects on the Power of the Moving Image Chad Kennerk • Jan 17th Set during the fateful 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, September 5 details the harrowing hours inside ABC Sports newsroom as broadcasters report live on militant Palestinian group Black September’s abduction of the Israeli Olympic team. Originally intended to be told... Exhibition Features Theatrical Transformation: WOLF MAN Was Made for the Cinema Rebecca Pahle • Jan 16th The first full moon of 2025 isn’t until the final week of January, but those who hanker for a hair-raising moonlit adventure don’t have to wait: Wolf Man will be in theaters on January 17. In this Universal film directed... Exhibition Features Becoming Shades: Cinematographer Edu Grau Translates the Almodóvar Aesthetic for THE ROOM NEXT DOOR Chad Kennerk • Jan 10th Cinematographer Edu Grau had his first big break at 27, when fashion icon Tom Ford brought Grau to the United States to shoot Ford’s directorial debut, A Single Man. The experience catapulted Grau into a career of impressive breadth, spanning... Exhibition Features First-Person Singular: Director RaMell Ross Makes His Fiction Feature Debut with NICKEL BOYS Daniel Loria • Dec 12th After making one of the most critically lauded documentaries of the last decade (2018’s Hale County This Morning, This Evening), filmmaker RaMell Ross dove headfirst into his next project: a feature adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Nickel... Load more stories
Exhibition Features Roll the Dice: ON SWIFT HORSES Director Daniel Minahan on Redefining the American Dream Chad Kennerk • Apr 24th For two decades Daniel Minahan has quietly shaped the modern television landscape, lending a sharp eye and fearless storytelling to HBO series such as Six Feet Under, Deadwood, Big Love, True Blood, and Game of Thrones, as well as FX’s...
Exhibition Features Healing Hands: Director Ami Canaan Mann Captures Good Medicine in AUDREY’S CHILDREN Chad Kennerk • Mar 28th Audrey’s Children sheds light on the legacy of a woman ahead of her time. Dr. Audrey Evans, a pioneering physician in pediatric oncology, left an indelible mark on millions. Filmed on location in Philadelphia, where Dr. Evans’ revolutionary work unfolded,...
Exhibition Features Bird’s Eye View: Director Peter Cattaneo and Actor Steve Coogan Examine THE PENGUIN LESSONS Chad Kennerk • Mar 28th The Penguin Lessons takes inspiration from Tom Michell’s memoir of the same name to tell the remarkable story of a disillusioned Englishman who rescues an oil-slicked penguin and gains an unlikely feathered friend. Set against the political turmoil of 1976...
Exhibition Features Drawn Together: Director Pete Browngardt and Voice Artist Eric Bauza Blast Off with THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP: A LOONEY TUNES MOVIE Chad Kennerk • Mar 14th Where there’s a will, there’s a wabbit. Or in this case, a duck and pig. Back on the big screen 90 years after Porky’s debut in March of 1935, The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie celebrates...
Exhibition Features Take Great Pains: Directors Dan Berk and Robert Olsen Punch Up the Action Comedy in Paramount Pictures’ NOVOCAINE Chad Kennerk • Mar 13th Arriving in theaters on Pi Day, March 14th, Paramount Pictures’ Novocaine tells the story of everyman Nate (Jack Quaid), whose rare genetic condition renders him unable to feel pain. His quiet, cautious life as an assistant bank manager is disrupted...
Exhibition Features Unveiling Obsession: Filmmaker Atom Egoyan on Fusing Film and Opera in SEVEN VEILS Chad Kennerk • Mar 7th Following his 1994 film Exotica, which explored desire and obsession, Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan was invited to direct the opera Salome in what would become the first of many productions he would helm parallel to his prominent film career. Egoyan’s...
Exhibition Features Be a Doll: COMPANION Writer/Director Drew Hancock Steps Outside the Box Chad Kennerk • Jan 31st In theaters January 31st from Warner Bros. Pictures, Companion is an unhinged horror-adjacent genre exploration with a fresh, original take on the ‘cabin in the woods’ scenario. Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid star as Iris and Josh, a young couple...
Exhibition Features Loving Your Neighbor: BETWEEN BORDERS Writer/Producer Isaac Norris on Bringing the Refugee Experience to Cinemas Chad Kennerk • Jan 24th In theaters January 26-28 from Fathom Entertainment, Between Borders explores one family’s journey to find home. Between 1988 and 1994, several hundred thousand Armenians were displaced from Azerbaijan due to violence and ethnic cleansing, including the film’s real-life subjects, Violetta...
Exhibition Features Ready Camera One: SEPTEMBER 5 Actor Ben Chaplin Reflects on the Power of the Moving Image Chad Kennerk • Jan 17th Set during the fateful 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, September 5 details the harrowing hours inside ABC Sports newsroom as broadcasters report live on militant Palestinian group Black September’s abduction of the Israeli Olympic team. Originally intended to be told...
Exhibition Features Theatrical Transformation: WOLF MAN Was Made for the Cinema Rebecca Pahle • Jan 16th The first full moon of 2025 isn’t until the final week of January, but those who hanker for a hair-raising moonlit adventure don’t have to wait: Wolf Man will be in theaters on January 17. In this Universal film directed...
Exhibition Features Becoming Shades: Cinematographer Edu Grau Translates the Almodóvar Aesthetic for THE ROOM NEXT DOOR Chad Kennerk • Jan 10th Cinematographer Edu Grau had his first big break at 27, when fashion icon Tom Ford brought Grau to the United States to shoot Ford’s directorial debut, A Single Man. The experience catapulted Grau into a career of impressive breadth, spanning...
Exhibition Features First-Person Singular: Director RaMell Ross Makes His Fiction Feature Debut with NICKEL BOYS Daniel Loria • Dec 12th After making one of the most critically lauded documentaries of the last decade (2018’s Hale County This Morning, This Evening), filmmaker RaMell Ross dove headfirst into his next project: a feature adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Nickel...
