Stories By Carlos Aguilar
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Movie News
3 Lessons We Learned from The Farewell Director Lulu Wang at the Miami Film Festival
April 2, 2020Lulu Wang is the writer-director behind The Farewell, which follows a Chinese-American woman as she returns...
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Movie News
Wendy Director Benh Zeitlin’s Co-Writer Was Chaos
February 28, 2020Beasts of Southern Wild director Benh Zeitlin had two co-writers on his new film Wendy. The...
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Movie News
Timmy Failure: Spotlight Director Tom McCarthy Shifts Focus to a Kid Detective and His Polar Bear
February 7, 2020Spotlight director Tom McCarthy turns to a very different kind of investigator for his new film...
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Movie News
Year on Fire: How Claire Mathon Shot Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Atlantics
February 5, 2020In one year, Claire Mathon shot two spellbinding love stories separated by time and geography: Céline...
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Movie News
Oscar-Shortlisted International Directors Tackle Global Issues Through Homeland Perspectives
January 8, 2020With the Oscar nominations less than a week away, filmmakers vying for Best International Feature Film...
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Movie News
From After Lucia to Young and Wild: Watch Highlights of Some of the Decade’s Best Latin American Cinema
December 25, 2019Want to watch a few beautiful moments of the best Latin American cinema of the last...
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Movie News
The Waves Soundtrack Decoded by Director Trey Edward Shults, Song by Song
November 19, 2019“For a long time I’ve loved movies whose ebbs and flows are driven by needle drops,”...
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Festivals
Palm Springs International ShortFest 2019: 13 Moviemakers On The Joys and Perils of Making Short Films
August 6, 2019By providing a space where short films can be appreciated without competing for attention alongside feature...
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Directing
How They Did It: Director Joanna Hogg Drew from her Memory to Craft the Sets for The Souvenir
May 16, 2019Resurrecting momentous events in her personal history—including the physical spaces where they occurred—deftly-introspective British moviemaker Joanna...
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Movie News
Missing Link: Director Chris Butler on Stop-Motion, and Why Voice Acting is the Ultimate Form of Performance
May 10, 2019Tantalized by the unknown from childhood, British moviemaker Chris Butler found in animation an ideal medium...
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Acting
Foreign Contenders: Steven Yeun on Being a Man Without a Country, and His Enigmatic Character in South Korea’s Burning
January 18, 2019A household name among global TV audiences, who followed him over six seasons of hit show...
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Directing
Foreign Contenders: Rahmatou Keïta on Financing Niger’s The Wedding Ring Entirely with African Funds
January 18, 2019Financially limited, but overflowing with cultural richness, African cinema is less frequently present at international festivals...
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Interviews
Simply Good: Alice Rohrwacher on Casting Off YouTube and Having a Wolf on Set for Happy as Lazzaro
January 10, 2019Divided into two distinctively wondrous halves—one pastoral/one urban—modern parable Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro felice) is a...
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Directing
Foreign Contenders: Director Mouly Surya on Indonesian Western Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts
January 10, 2019Reminiscent of Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns, Kurosawa’s samurai epics, and by extension of Tarantino’s revenge tales,...
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Directing
Foreign Contenders: Director Radu Jude on Romania’s I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
December 6, 2018A purveyor of communal introspection and historical accountability, Romanian visionary Radu Jude makes movies about specific...
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Directing
Foreign Contenders: Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck on Germany’s Never Look Away
December 5, 2018Attaining Oscar glory in the Best Foreign Language Film category back in 2007 with his first...
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Directing
All-Seeing Eyes: How Director Yorgos Lanthimos and DP Robbie Ryan Defy Period Film Aesthetics in The Favourite
December 4, 2018A caustic, royal love triangle is the new target of industrious Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos’ delectably...
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Directing
Foreign Contenders: Shoplifters Director Hirokazu Kore-eda on Father Figures and His Methods of Working with Children
November 30, 2018For the last 15 years, Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda has elicited unfeigned portrayals from children and...
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Directing
Foreign Contenders: Director Ofir Raul Graizer Filmed Pastries Like People With The Cakemaker
November 29, 2018MovieMaker’s series “Foreign Contenders” features interviews with the heavyweight helmers behind their respective countries’ entries for the...
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Festivals
AFI Fest 2018 Preview: International Masters and New Voices Come to Hollywood with Boundary-Pushing Stories
November 8, 2018Year after year, cinephiles in Los Angeles eagerly await the announcement of AFI Fest’s list of...
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Directing
Maternal Intrigue: Ramón Salazar on Constructing Characters for Sunday’s Illness and How Netflix Saved the Film
August 23, 2018Engaged in muffled psychological warfare, a mother and the daughter she abandoned over three decades ago...
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Directing
We the Animals Director Jeremiah Zagar Discovered His First Narrative Feature in a Bookstore and Shot it on 16mm
August 23, 2018Walking through SoHo’s McNally Jackson bookstore back in 2012, director Jeremiah Zagar came across a novel...
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Directing
Love Strong: Jordana Spiro on the Young Cast of Night Comes On and the “Luxury of Vulnerability”
August 9, 2018A brooding atmosphere envelops every frame of Night Comes On, the debut feature by actor-turned-director Jordana...
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Moviemaking
Merchants of Empathy: Carlos López Estrada, Rafael Casal, and Daveed Diggs’ Blindspotting Taps Into the Cultural Consciousness
July 18, 2018Artistic expression feeds on hardship, thrives on restrictions, adjusts to turbulence, and withstands setbacks. That’s the...
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