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Movie News
Charm City Kings Director Ángel Manuel Soto Learned to Ride with a Big Studio
October 9, 2020Nothing about La Granja, from Ángel Manuel Soto, suggests he would embrace the car chases and...
Festivals
Five New York Film Festival 2020 Highlights
October 6, 2020One of the few positives to come out of the drastically changed festival landscape of 2020...
Movie News
Best Film Schools in the U.S. & Canada 2020, Presented by CU Boulder
August 17, 2020Welcome to MovieMaker’s annual list of the Best Film Schools in the U.S. and Canada, at...
Movie News
How Marona’s Fantastic Tale Director Anca Damian Animated a Dog’s View of Happiness
June 16, 2020Anca Damian got the idea for her film Marona’s Fantastic Tale when she came across a...
Interviews
Inside The Climb Press Tour: Fun Bike Rides Spiked by Pandemic
April 9, 2020Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin co-wrote and co-star in The Climb, a hilarious love letter...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,”...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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