Jacques Audiard’s career began as Assistant Director to Roman Polanski in The Tenant, in 1976. 18 years later, he made Regarde les hommes tomber, a road-movie starring Mathieu Kassovitz and Jean-Louis Trintignant, his first feature length film which would unleash a body of work premiered and awarded in Cannes, at the César’s, BAFTAs and [...]

Radical, poetic, realist: these are the qualities associated with the works of Roberto Minervini, born in Italy and based in Houston, Texas. Known for his unconventional documentaries which propose a visionary and poetic understanding of mankind and an analysis of the current American socio-political landscape, Minervini shoots solely low-budget films, rarely funded through state [...]

Film critic, screenwriter, and American director, Paul Schrader’s name will always remain tied, in the history of cinema, to Taxi Driver (1976), a film now turned cult, which Martin Scorsese directed, and Schrader wrote. They repeated their collaboration on Raging Bull (1980), The Last Tempation of Christ (1988) and Bringing Out the Dead (1999), while Schrader also [...]

Kent Jones Kent Jones, is a film critic and curator, who became the director of programming of the New York Film Festival in 2013. Prior to this, Jones worked as an archivist for Cappa Productions (chaired by Martin Scorsese) and as film juror at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York. [...]