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For a while I have been wondering why Anthropic named its most powerful AI model Mythos. A safety company. A company whose entire justification for existing is that someone needs to tell the truth …

Filmmakers Kevin Walker and Jack Auen on their ingeniously conceived debut feature

On defining the tone of Sean Dunn's "The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford"

International sales for 'The Spacesuit,' following an astronaut (Kirby) forced to make an impossible decision after her co-pilot compromises the mission, will launch at Cannes.

A profile of Alexandre Singh and Natalia Musteata (Two People Exchanging Saliva).

The editors reflect on the Another Gaze project on the occasion of its relaunch.

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A frame-by-frame assessment of actions by Alex Pretti and the two officers who fired 10 times shows how lethal force came to be used against a target who didn’t pose a threat.

Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920, Knut Hamsun (1859–1952) was a towering figure of Norwegian letters. He was also a Nazi sympathizer and supp...

When I realized I’d be laid off (via: restructuring) from the publication I’ve worked at for 11+ years, I went back through the print archives to round up work I was proud of as an interviewer and…

The following essay about Amos Poe appears in Filmmaker’s Winter, 2026 print edition in a section, Reflections, that looks back on 33 years of American independent film and Filmmaker Magazine.

The Sundance Film Festival announced today the 97 films and episodic programs that will screen at the 2026 edition, the final one in Park City, UT.

“So you didn’t get into Sundance.” That’s the title of a 2009 blog post I wrote for Filmmaker’s website that gets a flurry of hits each December as, yes, a lot of people don’t get into Sundance.

Her face obscured in shadow, a woman, the poet, Eva HD, takes a photograph. Cut to words on the screen, a quote from another poet, Toni Morrison: “At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes…

Aaron Brookner and Rodrigo Areias’s Nova ’78 centers around the Nova Convention, a late ’70s avant-garde extravaganza that took place at NYC’s now defunct Entermedia Theater (Second Avenue and 12th…

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