All posts by Caleb Hammond
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How Thanksgiving Brought Queen & Slim Creators Lena Waithe and Melina Matsoukas Together
Lena Waithe and Melina Matsoukas, the writer and director, respectively, of Queen & Slim, began their collaboration on one of the most memorable TV episodes...
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Marriage Story, Little Women, The Irishman, and 6 Other New Movies Shot on Film
Moviegoers might be surprised to learn that despite its expensive VFX de-aging process, Martin Scorsese’s latest crime epic, The Irishman, was shot on 35mm film....
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Marriage Story Star Adam Driver Still Has Ideas for His Past Noah Baumbach Movies
Marriage Story director Noah Baumbach says the film’s lead actor, Adam Driver, still has new ideas about their past collaborations. Baumbach said in a Q&A...
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Light of My Life: Writer-Director-Star Casey Affleck’s Character-Driven Vision of a World Without Women
Academy Award-winning actor Casey Affleck takes his time between directing projects: Affleck’s intimate post-apocalyptic drama Light of my Life comes nearly 10 years after his bonkers mockumentary I’m...
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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, but the kind...
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High Life Director Claire Denis Talks 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 death row inmates...
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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 school in Florida,...
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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, became available to...
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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 Celebration, combines these two...
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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 passage for great...
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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...