As Dogfight joins the Criterion Collection this week, I spoke to Savoca about figuring out a movie on the fly, shooting “the most awkward sex scene you’ll ever see,” and the beauty of River ...

The 1991 feature stars River Phoenix and Lili Taylor in the story ... Set primarily in 1963, with a four-years-later coda, Dogfight captures a moment that was, in essence, the cusp of what we ...