Jack Douse talks to director Rosa Kettering
On casting instinct, final cuts, and shooting a film's ending first.
Rankings, essays, interviews, and stories about how movies are made, seen, and remembered.

From intimate documentaries to enormous studio spectacles, these are the films that have defined the year through August 4.
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From a microbudget London noir to The Odyssey, all 13 of Nolan’s feature films reveal a filmmaker continually testing how large an original idea can become.
On casting instinct, final cuts, and shooting a film's ending first.
On grain, warmth, and the argument for keeping projectors running — a short film-history essay.
From the restless streets of his earliest New York films to the historical reckoning of Killers of the Flower Moon, Scorsese’s narrative features trace a career consumed by faith, guilt, violence, performance, and the stories people tell to live with themselves.
From the criminal pressure cooker of Reservoir Dogs to the sunlit melancholy of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Tarantino’s ten separately released features reveal a filmmaker obsessed with language, performance, genre, revenge, and the power of movies to rewrite reality.