Juliette Jeffers

Born into superstardom. Raised in front of the world. Still hates school.

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Six pages into her new book Wave of Blood, Ariana Reines writes, “I’m bleeding. I don’t know why whenever anything important or difficult is happening this seems to be the case.” Given the book’s title, it might not come as a surprise that this state of bleeding characterizes the text. Reines’ work has always explored this intermingling of life and death at an elemental level. She writes from a place of knowledge of suffering’s proliferation. “There’s something that we can’t accept about life’s connection to death, about the contingency of our being,” she told me last month.

From the moment she shows up in Anora, giving lap dances to eager customers, Mikey Madison grabs hold of nearly every scene and doesn’t let go until its bittersweet final shot. Director Sean Baker saw something in the 25-year-old actor (namely, her turn as a psycho killer in the Scream reboot) when he cast her in his Palme d’Or-winning story of a strong-willed stripper who falls for a Russian oligarch’s son, and now, she has everyone talking Oscar. The actor Isabelle Huppert was floored by Mikey’s performance and called her to discuss this mega moment.

We got on the phone with the Honduran pop princess after her Harajuku-inspired set at III Points Festival to talk drain gang, Bond girls, and haunted Airbnbs.

In the middle of his press tour for his first English-language feature "The Room Next Door," the Spanish auteur met up with the "Past Lives" director for a candid talk about delicate art of capturing intimacy on screen.

In an era when Hollywood retreads and corporate trends have become the backbone of blockbuster filmmaking, a crop of up-and-coming directors, unburdened by an adherence to Hollywood’s established norms and conventions, are approaching their movies with fresh, uninhibited perspectives. of ignorance in the face of industry conventions. Their work spans traditional genres, from coming-of-age comedies to sports biopics to prestige adaptations. Budgets range from streamer-funded to scraped-together. And while all of this results in different styles of filmmaking, their commonalities are much more salient. To find out why, we asked Eugene Kotlyarenko, filmmaker and host of the Director’s Commentary podcast, to speak with six early-career directors with big dreams and bigger ambitions. In the first of five installments, he talked to Crystal Moselle and Derrick B. Harden, co-directors of The Black Sea. The film is a unique and heartwarming improv comedy about a Brooklyn native who gets stranded in Bulgaria and must figure out ways to survive and thrive.

For decades, the French performer has been a symbol of pop music’s greatest fall from grace. Alissa Bennett sat down with him to discuss greed, redemption, and the public’s appetite for sacrificing its stars.

Fresh off a tour with The Dare, the L.A. it girl, performer, and producer Avalon answers a few invasive questions.

As the West Village restaurant prepares to close its doors for good, a host of regulars reflect on what made Reika Alexander's temple of jazz and Japanese cuisine one of a kind.