All posts by Caleb Hammond
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Festival Wrap: Dallas Fest EARTHxFilm Counters Environmental Doomsday Narratives With A Message of Hope
Recently wrapping its seventh year, Earth Day Texas is the largest annual environmental forum in the world, with attendance upwards of 150,000 over its three-day...
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Comic Timing: Slack Bay Continues French Director Bruno Dumont’s Pivot Into Slapstick and Farce
If you had told anyone in 2013—after his heartbreaking seventh feature, Camille Claudel 1915—that famously austere French filmmaker Bruno Dumont would four years later be in...
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Classic Cuts: Three Simple Editing Techniques Employed By The Empire Strikes Back (Video)
The trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the sequel to 2015’s The Force Awakens, dropped this past weekend, a reminder the Star Wars franchise...
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All Under One Roof Raving: How Michal Marczak Made All These Sleepless Nights With 3-D-Printed Gear and ADR
The essential listlessness of youth: So many have tried to capture that on camera, though every film that does so successfully makes it feel like...
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Watch: Charlie McDowell Talks About Writing The Discovery, Getting Robert Redford to Star and More (Video)
With his second feature, The Discovery, screenwriter and director Charlie McDowell continues to craft high-concept sci-fi stories that straddle scale, telling an intimate love story...
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High-Concept High School: The Teenage Experience Gets Universal in Ry Russo-Young’s Before I Fall
For those of us suffering fatigue from the endlessly recycled Young Adult genre, Ry Russo-Young’s adaptation of Lauren Oliver’s YA bestseller Before I Fall comes...
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Criterion Crash Course: Moviemaking Lessons From Criterion’s The Tree of Wooden Clogs
Whether you’re a moviemaker, critic or devoted film collector, lovers of cinema can all agree: A Criterion Collection release is a stamp of cultural importance....
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How to Do the Hustle: Use Craigslist, IMDbPro and Other Job Boards to Jumpstart Your Film Career
The daunting task of moving to a new city alone and attempting to break into the notoriously nepotistic community that is the film industry is...
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Gimme Shelter: Seven Movies About Immigration
In the light of Donald Trump’s recent executive order temporarily banning travel from seven Muslim-majority countries into the Unites States, we’re revisiting some films that...
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Festival Spotlight: Myrtle Beach International Film Festival’s Jerry Dalton Keeps Politics Strictly Out of It
Think of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and “film” might not the first word to enter your mind. If so, you haven’t met Jerry Dalton: a...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
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...