All posts by Carlos Aguilar
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The Waves Soundtrack Decoded by Director Trey Edward Shults, Song by Song
“For a long time I’ve loved movies whose ebbs and flows are driven by needle drops,” director Trey Edward Shults told MovieMaker in Los Angeles...
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Parasite Director Bong Joon-ho Explains His Fixation With Shooting in Tight Spaces
When I arrived to interview Parasite director Bong Joon-ho at a hotel in Beverly Hills, a member of his team informed me he had been...
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Palm Springs International ShortFest 2019: 13 Moviemakers On The Joys and Perils of Making Short Films
By providing a space where short films can be appreciated without competing for attention alongside feature films, Palm Springs International ShortFest has positioned itself as...
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How They Did It: Director Joanna Hogg Drew from her Memory to Craft the Sets for The Souvenir
Resurrecting momentous events in her personal history—including the physical spaces where they occurred—deftly-introspective British moviemaker Joanna Hogg created The Souvenir, a semi-autobiographical drama which centers...
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Missing Link: Director Chris Butler on Stop-Motion, and Why Voice Acting is the Ultimate Form of Performance
Tantalized by the unknown from childhood, British moviemaker Chris Butler found in animation an ideal medium to interact with the creatures and entities that fascinate...
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Foreign Contenders: Steven Yeun on Being a Man Without a Country, and His Enigmatic Character in South Korea’s Burning
A household name among global TV audiences, who followed him over six seasons of hit show The Walking Dead, Korean-born actor Steven Yeun made the...
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Foreign Contenders: Rahmatou Keïta on Financing Niger’s The Wedding Ring Entirely with African Funds
Financially limited, but overflowing with cultural richness, African cinema is less frequently present at international festivals than productions from most other regions of the world,...
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Simply Good: Alice Rohrwacher on Casting Off YouTube and Having a Wolf on Set for Happy as Lazzaro
Divided into two distinctively wondrous halves—one pastoral/one urban—modern parable Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro felice) is a new stroke of genius from Italian director Alice Rohrwacher...
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Foreign Contenders: Director Mouly Surya on Indonesian Western Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts
Reminiscent of Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns, Kurosawa’s samurai epics, and by extension of Tarantino’s revenge tales, Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts is an Indonesian take...
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Foreign Contenders: Director Radu Jude on Romania’s I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
A purveyor of communal introspection and historical accountability, Romanian visionary Radu Jude makes movies about specific events, defining time periods, and relevant figures in his...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Taylor Russell on Waves and Why She’s OK With Being an Adult Who Plays High School Students
In director Trey Edward Shults’ Waves, Taylor Russell plays the younger sister of Kelvin Harrison Jr., even though she’s five days older than him in real life. In fact,...
Inside the Issue: Directing
Rob Zombie: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Rob Zombie still can’t let go of some of his past off-screen nightmares. “After I finished Halloween II, I was so beat up by the process that I hated...
Inside the Issue: How To
Edward Norton Walks Us Through Every Part of Making Motherless Brooklyn
Edward Norton is the best possible person to explain each stage of the moviemaking process for his new drama Motherless Brooklyn—he’s the film’s writer, director and lead actor. For...