All posts by Caleb Hammond
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Fest Beat: An Ever-Expanding Audience and a Surprise-Filled Slate Highlight Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2019
A short hour and a half drive north of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara is one of those classic “get away” coastal towns,... -
High Life Director Claire Denis Discusses Black Holes, Bringing an Astrophysicist On Set, and the Death Penalty
On the surface, many entries in Claire Denis’ filmography appear relatively easy to synopsize (her latest High Life follows a group of... -
If Beale Street Could Talk DP James Laxton on Using the Large Format Alexa 65 Freely for Barry Jenkins’ Period Romance
Director Barry Jenkins and cinematographer James Laxton have enjoyed a meteoric rise through the industry together, from collaborating on shorts in film... -
Where The Movie Came to Life: How Editor Bob Murawski Brought The Other Side of the Wind Back from the Dead
This Fall, following a tour of the prestigious festival circuit, Orson Welles’ long lost Hollywood satire The Other Side of the Wind,... -
The Great Bogdanovich: The Moviemaker’s Varied Film Career Has Always Celebrated His Idols
Peter Bogdanovich has enjoyed a remarkably balanced career as both a film historian and acclaimed moviemaker. His latest documentary, The Great Buster: A... -
The Mythical West: The Zellner Brothers on Playing with Genre Tropes and Letting Humor Come Intuitively with Damsel
From Tarantino, to the Coen Brothers, to Kelly Reichardt, the western is so entrenched in cinematic history that it’s become a rite of... -
Embracing Your Inner Masochist: WIP Your Project Into Shape With Work-in-Progress Screenings
Let’s assume you’ve achieved the impossible: you’ve stressed your way through pre-production on your first feature, shot it on a shoe-string budget,... -
True/False 2018: The Midwestern Doc Fest Returns to Test the Limits of Non-Fiction
The heart of the Midwest beats in Columbia, Missouri, a charming college town where the land is eerily flat, the brick buildings... -
Exclusive: Nick Thune and Kaily Smith Westbrook Trip on the Digital Age in This Clip From People You May Know (Video)
At what point will our online presences actually define who we are? Have we already reached that point? Sherwin Shilati’s first feature... -
San Diego Underground Film Festival 2017: Experimental Yet Accessible Work Populates This Quirky SoCal Fest
Recognizing a void in Southern California for experimental and truly independent cinema, Ryan Betschart and Rachel Nakawatase decided to found an independent...
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Flash Forward: Grace Van Patten Takes a Leap into the Unknown in David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
Many actors will tell you that when you read a great script, you just know. But for Grace Van Patten, it was actually not knowing that...1Inside the Issue: Directing
Success in Succession: Matteo Garrone Shot Dogman Entirely in Sequence to Put Viewers in His Character’s Shoes
I wrote the script for my new film, Dogman, 12 years ago, and during those years I changed it many times, arriving at six or seven...Inside the Issue: How To
Journalism Plus: How Hail Satan?, The Brink, and Leaving Neverland Blend Truth-Seeking With Cinematic Storytelling
“Journalism Plus” is how Academy Award-winning moviemaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) characterizes making documentaries. If you’re a documentarian, you may not have a degree or credentials in...8