F E AT U R E S C O L U M N S 026 — HER DECISION Taking place over just a few days, Eliza Hittman’s observational, intimate and necessarily political third feature enters us into the world of an underage teenager and her best friend, who travel to New York from Pennsylvania for a legal abortion. Tomris Laffly talks with the writer/director about her powerfully subtle Never Rarely Sometimes Always. 036 — MILK MONEY In First Cow, her fifth collaboration with writer Jon Raymond, Kelly Reichardt revisits Portland, grounding her portraits of its present in the past. Two men navigate the new world and nascent capitalism during the 1820s, an environment captured with rigorous understatement. Larry Gross speaks with Reichardt. 044 — THERE’S SOMETHING IN THE AIR With his prodigious, formally shapeshifting debut, The Vast of Night, director Andrew Patterson reinvents the UFO movie. Interview by Jim Hemphill. 054 — THIS SWEET SICKNESS Cinephilia is both a love and a symptom in Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream, Frank Beauvais’s archival-based memoir. Sierra Pettengill discovers the meanings— personal and political—within this film programmer’s hypnotic montage. 062 — INCENDIARY In Alexander Nanau’s Collective, a tragic nightclub fire exposes incompetence and corruption within the Romanian government. Vadim Rizov interviews the documentarian. 006 — INDUSTRY BEAT Anthony Kaufman on the ways in which surveillance capitalism is changing movie marketing. 009 — EXTRA CURRICULAR Holly Willis on the textured pleasures of the handmade film. 012 — SPECULATIONS Joanne McNeil on the prescient film and art of Lynn Hershman Leeson. 30 John Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 filmmakermagazine.com 212.465.8200 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Scott Macaulay scott@filmmakermagazine.com MANAGING EDITOR Vadim Rizov vadim@filmmakermagazine.com CREATIVE DIRECTORS Caspar Newbolt & Charlotte Gosch COPY EDITOR Amy Monaghan FACT CHECKER/PROOFREADER Daniel Christian DIRECTOR OF ADVERTISING Regina Dvorin rdvorin@ifp.org CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Brandon Harris — Taylor Hess Anthony Kaufman — David Leitner Matt Mulcahey — Ray Pride Alicia Van Couvering — Lauren Wissot CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Henny Garfunkel — Richard Koek WEBMASTER Michael Medaglia SUBSCRIPTIONS MANAGER subscriptions@filmmakermagazine.com PRINTER Southwest Offset Printing NEWSSTAND DISTRIBUTION Disticor, Inc. (905) 619-6969 [Cover photo: Talia Ryder and Sidney Flanigan in Never Maybe Sometimes Always, courtesy of Focus Features] FILMMAKER (ISSN 1063-8954) is manufactured and printed in the United States. FILMMAKER welcomes unsolicited articles but reserves complete editorial control over all submitted material. All articles, letters or reviews represent the opinion of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the publisher or editors. All materials become the property of FILMMAKER and cannot be returned unless a stamped, self-addressed envelope is included. FILMMAKER is listed in the Film Literature Index. FILMMAKER is published four times a year. The title FILMMAKER and “The Magazine of Independent Film” and logotype are registered trademarks and service marks. Copyright 2016 FILMMAKER Magazine. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be copied by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage or retrieval system without the express written permission of the publisher. Newsstand: $5.95 U.S./$7.95 Canada; Subscription: $18.00 U.S./$20.00 Canada/$40.00 Foreign. POSTMASTER: Please send address changes to subscriptions@filmmakermagazine.com 002