Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet have long been writing partners and collaborators on each other’s work. Mona Fastvold first worked with Daniel Blumberg on her dark tale of jealousy and romance, The...
Shih-Ching Tsou’s Oscar longlisted film Left-Handed Girl is a vibrant tale of contemporary Taiwan through the eyes of generations of women. From the perspectives of a five-year-old child, I-Jing (Nina Ye), a...
Director Philippa Lowthorpe and writer Emma Donoghue adapt Helen Macdonald’s 2014 award-winning genre-crossing memoir, H is for Hawk, for the screen with Claire Foy starring as Helen who comes undone after the...
InSession Film Awards Editor Shadan Larki chats with The Testament of Ann Lee production designer Sam Bader. Be sure to check out our other awards season interviews here.
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Listeners of Chasing the Gold will know that Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee is unequivocally my favorite film of 2025. It’s visually stunning, innovative, evocative, truly unlike anything I’ve seen before.Â
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As Ann Lee’s faithful follower Mary Partington, Thomasin McKenzie took the role of testifying her life as the film’s narrator. The actor, originally from New Zealand, formed a solid bond with director...
Many people recognize Amanda Seyfried from roles such as the sweetly clueless Karen Smith whose special talent is to predict the weather through her breasts in Mean Girls, or Sophie the bride-to-be...
I spoke to Mary Bronstein in person after the Melbourne International Film Festival showing of If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, and her focus repeatedly returned to Rose Byrne not only...