Life is busy – spring has sprung, Sora is dead, and the Oscars are on the move. It can be tough to stay up-to-date on film industry news, profiles, analysis, and advice. That’s why we’ve curated some essential reads you may have missed over the past month. So take some time to catch up with this month’s good reads!
This Month’s Good Reads (March 2026)
A Massive List of Spring 2026 Grants, Labs & Fellowships (via Lee Moss for No Film School)
Movies are easier to make when you have money and knowledge and community! So go get some!
A Love of My Own: Donna Deitch’s Sapphic Classic Desert Hearts at 40 (via Marya E. Gates for Letterboxd)
Four decades of the indie drama and its influence on lesbian cinema.
Hollywood’s Star Power Is Shifting (via David Sims for The Atlantic)
How filmmakers like Ryan Coogler and Greta Gerwig have become just as A-list as movie stars.
Have You Been Hurt by Media Consolidation? I Have. (via Ted Hope for Hope For Film)
The acclaimed producer’s time at Amazon has inspired his fight to block the Warner/Paramount merger.
Film Is In Its Own Existential and Material Crisis, Timothée (via Angelica Jade Bastién for Madwomen & Muses)
Chalamet fired some controversial shots against opera and ballet, but the film industry is fighting for its relevance, too.
The Movie Buffs Who Track Film Profits as if They Actually Work in Hollywood (via Mark Maurer for The Wall Street Journal)
Treating box office numbers like sports.
Angelika Saleh, the Angelika of Angelika Film Center, Dies at 90 (via Alex Traub for The New York Times)
RIP to an arthouse movie pioneer.
Movie Stars Wanted. No Experience Necessary (via Katie Kilkenny for The Hollywood Reporter)
The art (and risks) of casting non-professional actors.
A Woman Just Won the Best Cinematography Oscar for the First Time Ever. How… Is That Possible? (via Nadira Goffe for Slate)
Congrats to Sinners’ Autumn Durald Arkapaw for making history!
The Movie Business Has Never Been Harder, So Why Are All These New Distribution Companies Launching? (via Brent Lang for Variety)
Meet the new distributors hoping to be the next A24 or Neon (and not the next Row K?).
Film Festivals Create Enormous Value. Then They Walk Away From It. (via Glosserman)
Could festivals sustain the indie film ecosystem by getting into distribution?
The New ‘Musician to Actor’ Pipeline (via Cat Zhang for The Cut)
Will your favorite singer be the next big movie star?
How I Became a Filmmaker (via Lena Dunham for The New Yorker)
Dunham’s journey from college student to mumblecore infamy.
In case you were ignoring us (aka blatant self-promotion)
Filmmaker Interview: Addison Heimann, writer/director/producer of Touch Me
We talked to the creator of the new queer sci-fi horror comedy.
Videos worth watching
Laura Dern takes us to cinephile school (via The Criterion Collection)
How ’bout you? Read anything good this month?
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