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How to Develop the Story Beats in Your Screenplay
Before we discuss how to develop story beats in a screenplay, let’s start with a cold realization: On the surface, directing doesn’t seem to require many tangible skills. Think about...
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Book Review: I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
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NewFilmmakers LA: Maha Al Saati, Mary Lyn Chambers, Ludovica Isidori, David Plasencia, and More
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Indie Law: Our Entertainment Law Expert Pulls Your Legal Questions From The MM Mailbag
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
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’69 at 50: A Look Back at the Legacy of Nine Movies From 1969
Polarizing political rhetoric, culture wars, fiercely divided opinions about the moral fiber of the president, troops dying far from home in a war most citizens question, debates about racial and gender...
Hollywood Ending: Quentin Tarantino on Making Movies, Finding Love, and Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood
The first time Quentin Tarantino and I connect, he offers me an apology. “I’m not trying to be flaky,” he insists, in a tenor that’s instantly recognizable—a disarming blend...
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How They Did It: Seamless Stunt Work and Smartly Drawn Shot Lists Fueled The Mountaintop Sequence in Midsommar
In Midsommar—my sophomore feature about a codependent couple whose doomed fate leads them to a nightmarish summer solstice celebration among an ancestral Swedish cult called the Hårga—there are two...
The 25 Most Influential Directors of All Time, From Scorsese to Kubrick
Martin Scorsese. Stanley Kubrick. Alfred Hitchcock. As time passes, new models inevitably emerge. In art, politics and history, each generation finds its own heroes. In the motion picture industry, though,...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...