Bulletin + Assembly — Weston Borg, Savannah O’Leary, Daniel Arnold...

DIRECTORS' LIBRARY
January 15, 2026

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Weston Borg directs ‘Railbirds’.

At New York City’s Aqueduct Racetrack, a sports announcer and a bettor spend their days immersed in a world of horse racing that is slowly fading away.

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Savannah O’Leary directs ‘Age Your Way’ for Hera.

The stories of three senior citizens living life on their own terms.

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Daniel Arnold directs ‘Lonely City’ for Bill Callahan.

A photo series shot over the course of 15 years in New York City.

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Footnotes

An Ode To Béla Tarr, 1955–2026 — The Hungarian filmmaker, master of slow cinema, died on 6 January, aged seventy. Michael Brooke reflects on his legacy.
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The 2025 Music Video Wrap Report — Music Videos Never Die watched 1,101 music videos released in 2025. Here is everything they learned.
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The A24 Podcast: Josh Safdie & Sean Baker — Josh Safdie and Sean Baker discuss their craft, collaborators, and ‘Marty Supreme’.
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Kathryn Bigelow, Catastrophe Connoisseur — At the Intrepid Museum, the ‘House of Dynamite’ director chats with an arms-control expert about duck and cover, radioactive subs, and how close we are to the end.
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Beyond The Cut: SchyGuyy — Beyond The Cut sat down with filmmaker Zach Schy to talk about his recent "hard reset" and the massive shift from chasing short-form views to focusing on long-form storytelling.
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Music Video Preservation Society: Dougal Wilson (London Event) — Another big screen celebration of the artform and cultural phenomenon of the music video, with Dougal Wilson as special guest.
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In Development: Not Every Filmmaker Has to Be a Hydra — Working with the team that built Letterboxd, Community Center is an early attempt to integrate audience-building into filmmaking, without turning artists into full-time strategists.
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François Truffaut’s daughter invites audiences inside his films, and her childhood. — Laura Truffaut leads a nine-film François Truffaut retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
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IndieWire’s 46 Most-Anticipated Movies of 2026 — From new Christopher Nolan and Greta Gerwig films to more ‘Dune’ and ‘The Social Network,’ the movies we're most looking forward to in the new year.
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Gen AI video trends: Where is all this going? — Current AI video examples which TV and movie producers should be aware of.
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