Jim Hemphill
Jim Hemphill is an award-winning filmmaker and film historian who writes about filmmaking craft for IndieWire. His films have screened at the Sundance Film Festival, American Cinematheque, and other festivals and venues, and his writing on cinema has appeared in American Cinematographer, Film Comment, Variety, Filmmaker Magazine, and elsewhere. He is the author of the book “The Art and Craft of TV Directing: Interviews With Episodic Television Directors,” and he has contributed scholarly audio commentaries to dozens of Blu-rays released by the British Film Institute, Kino Lorber, and other labels.
Latest by Jim Hemphill
The Highest Score
The composer of "The Martian" and "Kingdom of Heaven" talks about reuniting with Sir Ridley for "The Dog Stars," a film that posed new challenges in its combination of the intimate and the epic.
Filmmaker Toolkit
Scott and several of his department heads tell IndieWire about their ongoing collaboration and their work together on the director's latest film, "The Dog Stars."
After Dark
Mario Van Peebles’ electric 1991 crime thriller arrived in Westwood just days after the Rodney King beating.
Filmmaker Interview
The veteran director of "Alien," "Blade Runner," and "Black Hawk Down" visits IndieWire's Filmmaker Toolkit podcast to talk about his latest film.
Retrospective
Released in 1980, "The First Deadly Sin" features a Sinatra with no ego and no vanity, and looks back to one era of vigilante filmmaking while setting the stage for another.
The composer of the dystopian Apple TV series tells IndieWire about developing the show's musical language over several seasons, and now, two parallel storylines.
Interview
Scott tells IndieWire about the influences behind his wild new combination of adventure, romance, comedy, and horror.
Interview
The "Dog Stars" director has commanded armies and shot epics with more than a dozen cameras at once, but he tells IndieWire that writing is still the hardest part of filmmaking.
Obituary
The beloved musician and actress who lit up the screen in "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas," "Steel Magnolias," and other films passed away peacefully in Nashville today.
‘None of Us Knew What We Had’: Jordana Brewster Looks Back at 25 Years of ‘The Fast and the Furious’
As the modest street-racing movie that launched a seven-billion-dollar franchise returns to theaters, the actor tells IndieWire about channeling Anna Magnani, finding chemistry with Paul Walker, and revisiting the film at Cannes.
Consider This
The "Daily Show" correspondent tells IndieWire about the origins of "Desi Lydic Foxsplains" and discusses its evolution from pandemic-era experiment to YouTube sensation.
The director's "Gremlins" follow-up isn't as well known or regarded as that 1984 hit, but a new 4K release reveals it to possess its own considerable charms.
