Cult animator Don Hertzfeldt grows up with a majestic passion play about a stickman named Bill, his mortal coil, life and the universe, writes Nick Bradshaw.
The roving auteur talks widescreen isolation, collapsing timeframes, cranes in the bedroom and his adaptation of Patrick White’s The Eye of the Storm with Dan Callahan.
Usually seen as an oddity, if seen at all, Nicholas Ray’s late erotic short The Janitor distils his interest in the tussle between id and superego, writes Brad Stevens.
The director and star of School of Rock reteam for a ‘real true’ tall Texan tale that makes great play with its folksy mix of truth and drama, says Andrew Tracy.