All posts by Ailish Elzy
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Commanding Presence: Southside With You Swears Tika Sumpter In as a Talent to Be Reckoned With
Tika Sumpter lets out her infectious laugh when asked if she produced and starred in Richard Tanne’s Southside With You in an effort to... -
Don’t Call It a Comeback: Barbara Kopple Talks About Her New Doc, Miss Sharon Jones!
Barbara Kopple has a lot to celebrate this weekend. In addition to her 70th birthday, her newest documentary, Miss Sharon Jones!, opens in... -
Watch: John Singleton Talks About Use of Music; Breaks Down Scenes From His Films
On a somber April afternoon at the W Hotel in West Hollywood, music producer Arthur Baker sat down to interview Oscar-nominated filmmaker...
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Sydney on the Map: To Land Breakout Roles, Sydney Sweeney Draws Her Own Maps of the Characters She Inhabits
A reverent initiate of a patriarchal regime; a disturbed young psychiatric hospital ward; a sexually questioning teen with a flair for the dramatic; a mysterious denizen...Inside the Issue: Directing
Think Like A Photographer: Generation Wealth’s Lauren Greenfield Shares How Still Techniques Make Better Movies
The biggest change I experienced when I went from making pictures to making films was the sense of an arc—of creating a story over time, and...Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: Casting Unknowns Was Key to Finding the Laughs and Lived-In Feel of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade
Before I directed my first film, Eighth Grade, I had heard that 90 percent of directing is casting. I’m sure there are other directors who weigh...2