All posts by Andy Young
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Sword of Trust Writer-Director Lynn Shelton and Marc Maron on Gaining One Another’s Trust Over Many Collaborations
Unbeknownst to the rest of the world, Lynn Shelton and Marc Maron were ready to make a feature together. After years of collaborating on TV...
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Running With Beto: Director David Modigliani on Being the Fly on the Wall During Beto O’Rourke’s Senate Run
700-plus hours filmed, 254 Texas counties visited, and an ungodly amount of Whataburger consumed. In 2018, Democrat congressman Beto O’Rourke went from virtual obscurity to...
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Outside In: Lynn Shelton and Jay Duplass on Rehearsals, Sex Scenes, What They Learned Working in TV, and More
When I met with Lynn Shelton after the premiere of Outside In at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival, I facetiously asked who her favorite Duplass...
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"You Don’t Have to Be a Friend. Just Establish Trust": Dealt’s Luke Korem on Getting Doc Subjects to Be Themselves
MovieMaker got to spend some time with Richard Turner at SXSW this year and we can confirm a common rumor about him: Richard always has a...
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Austin City Limits: Noel Wells On the Challenges of Making Mr. Roosevelt in the Lone Star State
Mr. Roosevelt is a warm, touching, and hilarious indie that was shot in Austin, Texas on Kodak film, so seeing it premiere at the Paramount...
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It’s All Relative: Mark Webber Draws on Real Life and His Own Family in Flesh and Blood
After seeing the world premiere of Mark Webber’s latest film at SXSW last spring, I wasn’t immediately sure if what I’d seen was a narrative...
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Bear Hug: Brigsby Bear, From Dave McCary and Kyle Mooney, is an Unabashed Love Letter to Filmmaking With Friends
I had a feeling I’d like Brigsby Bear. As a comedy fan, how could I not? I’ve been a fan of director Dave McCary and...
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Baby, You Can Drive My Car: Edgar Wright Talks Heists, Car Choreography and Shooting Baby Driver in Atlanta
Much was made of Edgar Wright’s surprising departure from directing Marvel’s Ant-Man back in 2014. But while most focused on who’d be taking over the...
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Buying What He’s Selling: Michael Showalter on The Big Sick and His Transactional Approach to Storytelling
Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, the real-life couple whose love story forms the backbone of romantic comedy The Big Sick, remember searching for the...
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Infectious Charm: Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon Bring Their Real-Life Romance to the Screen in The Big Sick
Ten years ago, up-and-coming comedian Kumail Nanjiani and therapist Emily V. Gordon were falling in love. Then Emily fell into a coma. Don’t worry: She came out...
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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...