Stories By Caleb Hammond
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Movie News
To Cast Balram in The White Tiger, Ramin Bahrani Made the Most of an Exploratory Trip to India and Went Off-Script During Casting
January 21, 2021Ramin Bahrani and Aravind Adiga attended Columbia University together in the late ’90s, and a few...
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MLK/FBI Director Sam Pollard and Editor Laura Tomaselli on Building a Fruitful Working Relationship
January 14, 2021MLK/FBI traces how the FBI surveilled and harassed Martin Luther King Jr. under J. Edgar Hoover....
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Fatale: Deon Taylor and Roxanne Avent on Erotic Thrillers and How the Genre ‘Checks All the Boxes’
January 7, 2021Fatale director Deon Taylor and producer Roxanne Avent say their Hilary Swank and Michael Ealy erotic thriller...
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Movie News
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Recalls an Era When Singers Led the Band
December 23, 2020Played with characteristic gusto by the late Chadwick Boseman, the character of Levee in Ma Rainey’s...
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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Filmed in Pittsburgh, Where August Wilson Grew Up, But That’s Not Why
December 17, 2020Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom shot in Pittsburgh, which in a way brings the work of playwright...
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Sundance Film Festival Announces Its 2021 Lineup
December 15, 2020Sundance Film Festival 2021 will look a lot different when it hits computer screens and arrives...
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Directing
Ammonite Writer-Director Francis Lee Requires Every Object to Have a Rich History and Defined Purpose
December 4, 2020Ammonite director Francis Lee is in search of truth, and this extends even to the objects...
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Interviews
How Sound of Metal Director Darius Marder and Sound Supervisor Nicolas Becker Captured the Pain of a Metal Musician Going Deaf
November 19, 2020Sound of Metal is about a drummer named Ruben, played by Riz Ahmed, who loses his...
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Podcasts
Let Him Go Writer-Director Thomas Bezucha Built a House to Burn it Down
November 5, 2020Thomas Bezucha insisted on authenticity for every aspect of Let Him Go — and nothing epitomized that...
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Movie News
Can Fulldome Be the Next IMAX? We Go Inside the Large-Scale Format
October 29, 2020Many of us are a long way from feeling comfortable in a movie theater. But when...
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Best Of
Aaron Sorkin Had One Rule For The Trial of the Chicago 7
October 15, 2020On a Saturday morning in 2006, Aaron Sorkin met with Steven Spielberg and said he’d be...
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Movie News
Mank Will Have That Degraded Film Look and Old-Timey Mono Audio From the Trailers
October 13, 2020Two teaser trailers for Mank, David Fincher’s new film about the Citizen Kane screenwriter, went for...
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Aaron Sorkin Is ‘Surprised There’s Never Been a Robert Moses Movie’
October 1, 2020Aaron Sorkin, who has written about such modern influencers on our society as Steve Jobs and...
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Residue Wins Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature at Mammoth Lakes Film Festival (Complete List of Winners)
September 21, 2020Residue, the debut feature from Merawi Gerima, took home the Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature...
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‘We Called and Asked’: Frances McDormand on How Nomadland Gained Access to Amazon
September 12, 2020Nomadland, the new film from Chloé Zhao, stars Frances McDormand as a woman to takes to the...
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No Time to Die and Tenet Shared the Same IMAX Cameras While in Production
September 3, 2020Tenet, opening today, feels in many ways like a time-bending James Bond movie. And it may...
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Movie News
How John David Washington Became The Protagonist
August 27, 2020It was January, 23, 2019, a day that John David Washington remembers well, because the day...
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Movie News
The Best Postscripts in Cinema: From Do the Right Thing to Barry Lyndon, 5 Films That Do the Epilogue Right
August 6, 2020For the most part, film postscripts — that pesky on-screen text that acts as an epilogue...
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With Tommaso, Abel Ferrara Re-Examines the Suffering in Past Works Like Bad Lieutenant
June 11, 2020Abel Ferrara’s recent films haven’t explored the suffering of works quite like Bad Lieutenant: He’s spent...
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How The Weeknd Found His Way Into Uncut Gems
May 25, 2020Josh and Benny Safdie’s Uncut Gems, now on Netflix, is a unique time capsule of 2012: NBA...
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Tired of the Streaming Giants? Try These Streaming Service Alternatives
April 17, 2020Streaming numbers have been off the charts in the past month, and the usual streaming suspects...
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Interviews
Never Rarely Sometimes Always Director Eliza Hittman and First Cow Director Kelly Reichardt in Conversation
March 13, 2020First Cow director Kelly Reichardt and Never Rarely Sometimes Always director Eliza Hittman both write and...
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Movie News
Good Time Cinematographer Sean Price Williams Eyeing a Move to Directing With a Script by Film Critic Nick Pinkerton
February 20, 2020Sean Price Williams, cinematographer of Good Time and Her Smell, is looking to move into the director’s chair —...
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Movie News
Vitalina Varela Director Pedro Costa: ‘There Were No Pens or Computers On Set’
February 19, 2020You may have read recently that Quentin Tarantino doesn’t allow cell phones on set. Portuguese moviemaker Pedro...
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