All posts by Carlos Aguilar
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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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Foreign Contenders: Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck on Germany’s Never Look Away
Attaining Oscar glory in the Best Foreign Language Film category back in 2007 with his first feature, The Lives of Others, German director Florian Henckel...
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All-Seeing Eyes: How Director Yorgos Lanthimos and DP Robbie Ryan Defy Period Film Aesthetics in The Favourite
A caustic, royal love triangle is the new target of industrious Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos’ delectably wicked gaze. Boasting absurd and hilarious turns by Olivia...
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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...