Jesse talks to the director Shane Carruth. His new movie Upstream Color has almost no dialogue, involves a kind of abstract science fiction premise, but keeps you fully engaged. Then Jesse talks to ...

Shane Carruth is trying to explain the presence of a sound recordist in the midst of his latest film "Upstream Color." After first positing that it has something to do with Thoreau's "Walden," which ...

The closest analogy I have to watching Shane Carruth's movies is reading one of Haruki Murakami's densely imagined contemporary fantasies. Every detail is concrete, rendered with precision and ...