Hardy Sam

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The film’s look keeps shifting—lighting, cinematography—as Rose moves through different spaces, like the motel or her office. I also noticed a lot of …

In If I Had Legs I’d Kick you, one bad thing happens after another. You crank the intensity up to 11. Some critics have called it too much—too bleak, …

There’s a trap people can fall into if they follow a more traditional path: You go to film school, make a movie, make another movie. But what are you …

There’s been so much talk about so-called difficult women in recent years, but you were making raw, uncompromising portraits long before that was tren…

The audition itself was more of a conversation—sussing out who I was, whether my personality was something he could work with, and how it might be sha…

Mary Bronstein: It was a circuitous route, not your typical way people get there. When I was a teenager, I became obsessed with movies. I would watch …

It all feels perfectly of a piece with the world of Melt—textured, whimsical, romantic, surreal—and Zardoya’s vision for her brave new era. “I’m just …

“Mommy is stretchable,” a young girl observes of her mother at the start of If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. Linda, the mother, bristles at the description…

Melt’s softly gothic sound may feel familiar to fans of the Marías, whose production leaned toward the lush, layered, and hypnotic, but it’s slower, m…