All posts by Caleb Hammond
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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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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, and waded through...
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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 are short, the...
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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 People You May...
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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 film festival in...
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Flicks 4 Change 2017 Preview: Co-Founder James Hawthorn on What Hot-Button Issues the Fest Will Tackle
With a bevy of film festivals chasing the attention of urban dwellers in just about every metropolitan area, how does a festival stand out? When...
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Balancing Act: Richard Linklater’s Last Flag Flying Deftly Dances Around America’s Political Minefields
Texas-based filmmaker Richard Linklater’s humanist touch and trademark ease affords him the ability to gracefully engage with more than a few of our country’s hot...
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Blaze of Glory: Viktor Jakovleski Used a Hi-Speed Slo-Mo Phantom Camera and Drones To Make Brimstone & Glory
Film is first and foremost a visual medium, and when moviemakers accept and embrace this truth, a greater opportunity for a transcendent experience exists. This...
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Frame of Mind: To Blend Real and CG FX, The Osiris Child’s Team Built A Sci-Fi Set On Their Sound Stage Roof (Video)
What makes a scene work? Does it lie in the carefully executed plans of a film’s cast and crew? Or does the magic rest upon fortuitous mistakes, spontaneity and...
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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...
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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...