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arri alexa 35
June 2, 2022
At the launch event for the ARRI ALEXA 35, DP Erik Messerschmidt says the camera is just a tool and he’d like to do more “clinical testing” on the camera.
A Chiara directed by Jonas Carpignano
June 2, 2022
A Chiara writer-director Jonas Carpignano on how the film’s opening birthday celebration was inspired by an 18th birthday party he attended in Gioia Tauro.
Watcher directed by Chloe Okuno
June 2, 2022
Watcher director Chloe Okuno and cinematographer Benjamin Kirk Nielsen staged the film’s two adjacent apartments using a Rosco SoftDrop translight.
Tel Aviv Mammoth Lakes Film Festival 2022 Awards
May 31, 2022
Tel Aviv and The Civil Dead were the big award winners at the 8th annual Mammoth Lakes Film Festival this Memorial Day weekend.
the civil dead
May 31, 2022
The Civil Dead co-writer/star/director Clay Tatum envisioned a pre-production spending all of this time sharing movies with his DP. This didn’t happen.
Kevin Spacey
May 31, 2022
Kevin Spacey agrees to “voluntarily appear” before U.K. courts; Top Gun: Maverick sets records; Bo Burnham releases new material from Inside.
The Noise of Engines mammoth lakes film festival
May 29, 2022
The Noise of Engines was inspiried by a sex scene at a film festival screening and the writer-director’s experiences working as a border agent in Canada.
tom cruise in rome shooting mission: impossible
May 23, 2022
The trailer for Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning; Is Tom Cruise our last true movie star?; Alex Garland’s Men baffles audiences.
mike tyson sofia coppola cannes film festival
May 17, 2022
Cannes begins and president Thierry Frémaux allegedly censored a Deadline interview; Sofia Coppola’s mission to cast Bill Murray in Lost in Translation.
PLEASURE directed by Ninja Thyberg
May 13, 2022
Pleasure writer-director Ninja Thyberg immersed herself in the porn industry for her debut feature, which allowed her to break free of preconceived notions.
parker posey cullen moss in the staircase. megalopolis casting
May 13, 2022
Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis is cast; A Parker Posey profile is as joyful as you might imagine; A trailer for the Rebecca Hall thriller, Resurrection.
avatar 2 trailer succession season 4
May 9, 2022
Avatar 2 teaser trailer is here; Succession creator Jesse Armstrong answers Season 4 questions; Mubi makes acquisitions ahead of Cannes.
dave chappelle and ted sarandos
May 6, 2022
The man who attacked Dave Chappelle is charged with four misdemeanors and two comedians weigh in; some film festival news out of Provincetown and Milwaukee.
Sjón
May 5, 2022
With writing credits on The Northman and Lamb, we look at how Icelandic novelist-poet Sjón came of age in a conservative Reykjavik in the ’80s.
vortex directed by gaspar noe and shot by benoit debie
April 29, 2022
Vortex director Gaspar Noé and DP Benoît Debie collaborate in unorthodox ways. This includes Noé operating a camera and staging a single shot a day.
fire island - trailer flux gourmet trailer
April 25, 2022
Fire Island and Flux Gourmet get trailers; TCM Classic Film Festival wraps in Hollywood while NAB Show and CinemaCon open in Las Vegas.
THE NORTHMAN jarin blaschke
April 19, 2022
The Northman DP Jarin Blaschke explains how the Slav village raid sequence was achieved in a series of “oners” or unbroken single shots.
Minecraft Jason Momoa rom-com
April 19, 2022
Tribeca lineup is announced; Inside The Northman research; Jason Momoa is set for Minecraft; Julia Roberts explains her 20 year break from the rom-com.
the northman robert eggers sjon
April 18, 2022
When The Northman director Robert Eggers asked the poet-novelist Sjón to co-write his Viking epic, the Icelander was apprehensive.
The Batman Matt Reeves Robert Pattinson DC
April 15, 2022
The new Warner Bros. Discovery bosses eye an overhaul of DC; Northman’s Alexander Skarsgård eyes comedy; a look at The Godfather and Inland Empire visuals.
PARIS 13TH DISTRICT - Still 1 directed by Jacques Audiard
April 14, 2022
Paris, 13th District director Jacques Audiard discusses his imagination, obligatory sex scenes and how he took pre-shoot rehearsals to a new level.
April 12, 2022
Stranger Things Season 4 gets its first trailer; A director reflect on the year following a Sundance premiere; A David Lynch movie might premiere at Cannes.
nights end directed by jennifer reeder
April 9, 2022
Night’s End director Jennifer Reeder sees many benefits to “toiling away” as a horror filmmaker outside of New York or Los Angeles.
donald glover atlanta erotic thriller erotic thrillers
April 8, 2022
Donald Glover interviews Donald Glover; A definitive collection of the best recent writing on erotic thrillers; a deep dive into street casting.