"Because we're seeing the film from Ripley's point of view, we relate to her, but had we seen the film from the alien's point of view, we would have been feeling for her."

The writer/director, as she explained at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, wears multiple hats in movies and television.

The actor, who is receiving the President's Award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, talks returning to the director's chair and starring in Armando Iannucci's upcoming superhero satire.

Indonesian director Mouly Surya tells IndieWire about making her English-language debut on the Netflix movie — and putting a feminine spin on action classics like "First Blood" and "Commando."

Writer/director Ti West stops by the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast to talk about sticking the landing on his ambitious return to horror filmmaking.

Walter Hill's "rock & roll fable" has gained plenty of fans in four decades, but as the mythos around the unclassifiable music-heavy action outing grows, its very own Tom Cody sets the record straight for IndieWire.

The Oscar-winning director famously “retired” in 2013, but now he's wrapping the edit on a Cate Blanchett spy movie. At Karlovy Vary, he explained what made the difference.

Just how big a fan of the Eddie Murphy comedy franchise is this first-time feature director from Down Under? As he tells IndieWire, big enough to know which film to studiously avoid when it came time to make his own.

Nia DaCosta, "Blair Witch" sequel director Adam Wingard, and other genre filmmakers tell IndieWire about the lasting influence and anxiety of the viral 1999 sensation.

Uncle Felix has still got it.

Screening at Palm Springs ShortFest, writer/director Carlos A.F. Lopez, special effects designer Lael Rogers, and producers Megan Leonard and Jonathan Caso told IndieWire how they cracked horror's next big idea in just 12 minutes and 34 seconds.

The provocative French auteur tells IndieWire how she finds meaning beyond the script in her approach to both the camera and the actors.