One can understand why the offbeat and brilliant Juliette Lewis was chosen for the principal role in filmmaker Andrea Kramer’s bizarre but endearing offbeat movie, By Design. Lewis has always played ...

“I have never seen the problem with fetishizing objects and fetishizing people as though they were objects,” director Amanda Kramer tells me in a conversation ahead of the release of her latest film, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EXCLUSIVE: Music Box Films has picked up North American distribution rights to By Design, writer-director Amanda Kramer’s surreal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The film, which captivated audiences at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, is now playing in theaters. Robin Tunney, Samantha Mathis ...

Filmmaker Amanda Kramer melded a number of different art forms in her new feature “By Design,” but her tallest order was turning Juliette Lewis into a chair. “I think of it as it’s a body swap movie,” ...

Logline: A woman swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her better as a chair. Writer-director Amanda Kramer brilliantly collages tropes of literature, cinema, and performance art to cleverly ...

Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Music Box Films releases “By Design” in select theaters Friday, February 13, 2026. "Who appreciates Camille ...

Writer-director Amanda Kramer delivers this level of genre subversion in her new film, By Design. Fashioned as an epic fable blending literary and cinematic tropes, By Design follows Camille (Juliette ...

Benjamin Shearn, who has edited all of Kramer’s feature films, joined her once again in the cutting room for By Design. Below, he explains how his close friendship with Kramer helps him retain the ...

Amanda Kramer knows what you're probably thinking. On its surface, her latest film, By Design — a subversive twist on the body swap genre starring Juliette Lewis as a woman who turns into a beautiful ...

Director Amanda Kramer has cited everything from the original Freaky Friday to Beetlejuice to department store displays to the music video for George Michael's "Father Figure" as inspirations for the ...

Tunney got her start in cult favorites like Empire Records and The Craft, while Mathis appeared in everything from Pump Up the Volume to Little Women. Together with Lewis-star of Cape Fear, Natural ...