Archive - Shadows and Dreams

All that heaven allows

The great American independent director Rob Tregenza talks about his art, life and his excellent new film, The Fishing Place

Mar 7 •

Patrick Z. McGavin

February 2025

January 2025

"Dreaming, but awake," or the beautiful and the damned

Some personal thoughts and memories about the work and art of David Lynch (1946-2025)

Jan 23 •

Patrick Z. McGavin

November 2024

March 2024

Stranger than paradise

A Joycean conversation with the great writer and director Radu Jude

Mar 21, 2024 •

Patrick Z. McGavin

February 2024

'The only way we fail is if we don’t make art'

A Sundance conversation with editor Ron Patane about reframing autobiographical art

Feb 28, 2024 •

Patrick Z. McGavin

Images, or the man in the gray suit

On movie modernism, adaptation, and coming to terms with a great director's work of dread and cultural occupation

Feb 23, 2024 •

Patrick Z. McGavin

'I find really sad things funny'

A conversation with actor and writer Laura Chinn about her directing debut, Suncoast

Feb 9, 2024 •

Patrick Z. McGavin

Memory and time

More from Sundance, the known and newly discovered, the best and brightest

Feb 2, 2024 •

Patrick Z. McGavin

January 2024

Notes from the new underground

Memories of the Sundance Film festival, past, present and future

Jan 31, 2024 •

Patrick Z. McGavin

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