Hive-Minded Moviemaking: Thomas Vinterberg Talks The Commune, Shooting Roundtable Scenes and More
An auteur is characterized by the idiosyncratic qualities that he or she is able to imprint on every project—a signature made of themes, symbolism, stylistic...
Life After Provocation: Burden Documentarians Tim Marrinan and Richard Dewey on Meeting the Real Chris Burden
As if on a pilgrimage, scores of tourists and, on occasion, locals have taken advantage of a now-indispensable photo-op: the Urban Light sculpture in front...
Symptoms of the Universe: Sarah Adina Smith’s Buster’s Mal Heart Diagnoses the Thinking Behind Conspiracy Theories
Conspiracy theorists are addicted to order. Even if their most feared hypotheses about the monstrous entities that rule the world are true, that possibility is...
Festival Wrap: A Weekend Film School, Spaceballs Screening and Joe Pantoliano at Sunscreen Film Festival 2017
Through its unprecedented success on both the festival circuit and mainstream awards platforms, Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight has become the flagship film of Florida moviemaking. Yet,...
Unspoken Invitation: In Stéphane Brizé’s A Woman’s Life, The End of Innocence is Timeless
Victims of social structures that dilute their idealized notions of reality, the characters in director Stéphane Brizé’s humanistic dramas are often entrapped by undeserved circumstances and...
Festival Wrap: Frederick Wiseman, Animation Shine at Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival 2017
A hefty slate of international films, both crowd-pleasers and more intellectually challenging fare, is the signature of the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival’s comprehensive...
Under a Lucky Star: Makoto Shinkai Talks Your Name, The Highest-Grossing Anime Film of All Time
A rare comet shatters the infinite loop of time, linking two unsatisfied teenage lives in the anime hit Your Name—the highest-grossing anime film of all...
No Risk of Cliché: The Unorthodox Methods of Director Albert Serra Pay Off in The Death of Louis XIV
The contrast between absolute power and total impotence is the thematic core of Albert Serra’s latest portrait, The Death of Louis XIV. “Even the powerful...
Driven to Madness: Tomáš Weinreb and Petr Kazda Found Humanity, Not Glory, in the Antihero of I, Olga Hepnarová
For any society, reckoning with the actions of its most troubled members is nigh impossible. Irrationality prevents the existence of satisfactory answers when an individual...
Canoa Revisited: Felipe Cazals on His 1976 Masterpiece, Mexican History, Horror Storytelling and Politics in Filmmaking
In the interim between a Golden Age bogged down with melodramas, stereotypical treatments of masculine and pastoral glorification, and the emergence of the world-class brigade...
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(More) Essential Moviemaking Podcasts: Five Laudable Audibles for Your Educational Pleasure
Directing is a fairly strange craft to try to learn, in part because you rarely get a chance to watch other directors at work. Determined moviemakers exhaust all the...
1Inside the Issue: Festivals
50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2017
Are film festivals getting better? That is, are they providing you—independent moviemakers—more of the things you want and need? I think they are. After all, it makes sense: With...
9Inside the Issue: Producing
How to Always Deliver: Denise Di Novi on Gilding a Package, Dealing With the Artistic Temperament and Sniffing Out Hits
Denise Di Novi has forged a moviemaking career by avoiding the kind of carelessness that often bankrupted her peers. Instead, she developed and refined a keen sense for emotional...