Aster said there are elements he would change if he could make his "nightmare comedy" with Joaquin Phoenix over again.

If you ask Ari Aster’s dad, the “Hereditary” director should leave screenwriting to someone else. During a recent appearance ...

A Post-it note sat near Ari Aster while he wrote “Eddington”: “Remember the phones.” “Eddington” may be set during the pandemic, but the onset of COVID-19 isn't its inciting incident.

Too bad its stellar cast can’t save it Pedro Pascal, Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone star in Ari Aster’s bleak pandemic-set western comedy.

Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington,’ about America losing its mind in 2020, finds a mixed reception at Cannes By: Jake Coyle, The Associated Press Posted: 3:53 PM CDT Friday, May. 16, 2025 Last Modified ...

Ari Aster remembers where he was during the darkest days of the pandemic. “Like a lot of people, I was panicking. It was the beginning of something unknown. But I also see it now in retrospect ...

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Since Aster made “Eddington” — it was shot in 2024 — the second administration of President Donald Trump has ushered in a new political reality that Aster acknowledges would have reshaped ...