All posts by Ashley Wren Collins
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High Energy: Sedona International Film Festival Ascends the Ranks of the Circuit
The Sedona International Film Festival 2015 (February 21 to March 1) celebrated 21 years in February and rolled out the proverbial red carpet in all-round...
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Live From Cannes: The Middle East Rises
The white tents that freckle the edges of the Croisette like the pointillism dots of a Georges Seurat Neo-Impressionistic painting have all been packed away...
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Live From Cannes: Piracy, Studio Beyond and Avi Lerner
In the second it takes to wipe persistent flakes of the croissant I wolfed down for the snack substituting for my breakfast, I divert my...
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Live From Cannes: Weinsteins, Hotel du Cap and Broken Embraces
He looks me up and down and decides he can trust me. Perhaps it’s the innocence of my friendly smile and Pennsylvania-bred blue eyes and...
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Live From Cannes: My Neighbor My Killer
“I would say ‘Don’t do it, you’re crazy!,’” says Anne Aghion, award-winning documentary moviemaker whose film Ice People, the story of the internal and external...
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Live From Cannes: The Perfect Storm
“Do you want to see the Lakers game?” Brad Krevoy, CEO & chairman of the Motion Picture Corporation of America, asks and smiles disarmingly, the...
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The Cake Eaters: Mary Stuart Masterson Lets Cinemonde Eat Cake
“Acting is a spring, a dive into a cold pool. Directing is a marathon,” muses Mary Stuart Masterson from the back of a cab on...
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John Patrick Shanley Shares His Reasonable Doubt
“You know, I’m an odd duck,” John Patrick Shanley muses from across the table in New York City. “I always was an odd duck. The...
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Jerry Rudes Bids Bon Voyage to Avignon Film Festival
Benjamin is barking commands fast and furious: “Throw the ball backhanded!” A chorus of heads swivel and look at him quizzically. “Backhanded!,” Benjamin shrills. Dan...
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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...
1Inside the Issue: Directing
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...