All posts by Carlos Aguilar
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Maternal Intrigue: Ramón Salazar on Constructing Characters for Sunday’s Illness and How Netflix Saved the Film
Engaged in muffled psychological warfare, a mother and the daughter she abandoned over three decades ago channel resentment, guilt, and the remnants... -
We the Animals Director Jeremiah Zagar Discovered His First Narrative Feature in a Bookstore and Shot it on 16mm
Walking through SoHo’s McNally Jackson bookstore back in 2012, director Jeremiah Zagar came across a novel that would dictate the major part... -
Love Strong: Jordana Spiro on the Young Cast of Night Comes On and the “Luxury of Vulnerability”
A brooding atmosphere envelops every frame of Night Comes On, the debut feature by actor-turned-director Jordana Spiro. Spiro’s most staggering triumph is... -
Merchants of Empathy: Carlos López Estrada, Rafael Casal, and Daveed Diggs’ Blindspotting Taps Into the Cultural Consciousness
Artistic expression feeds on hardship, thrives on restrictions, adjusts to turbulence, and withstands setbacks. That’s the philosophy that assembled the alliance between... -
Believer: Director Don Argott and Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds on Their Doc in Support of LGBTQ Youth
Molded by his Mormon upbringing, Dan Reynolds, lead singer of the internationally renowned band Imagine Dragons, values the sense of community being... -
Child’s Play: Carla Simón on Directing Her Young Stars and Revisiting Her Memories in Summer 1993
Stemming from true events in her childhood, Carla Simón’s Summer 1993 is a delicate, accomplished debut feature and was selected as Spain’s Oscar... -
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2018: A Vital Community of Cinematic Truth-Seekers in the American South
If the state of nonfiction storytelling today could be summarized in a single phrase, it would the title of a moviemaker panel... -
Duck Test: How Miguel Arteta and Alia Shawkat Made Their Taut Relationship Drama Duck Butter in 24 Hours
For most of her acting career thus far, Alia Shawkat has turned in indelible performances in supporting roles that enrich whatever story... -
Battle Wounds: Chloé Zhao on Fictionalizing Brady Jandreau’s Story for The Rider
Gravely injured by the very act that elates him, a cowboy in South Dakota is adrift in the vastness of his sorrowful... -
Ghost Writing: Arnaud Desplechin on Ismael’s Ghosts‘ Film-Within-a-Film, His Director’s Cut, and His Fear of Rehearsals
French director Arnaud Desplechin’s charmingly self-referential body of work is an ode to the beautiful and often regrettable mishaps of youth, and how they...
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Sydney on the Map: To Land Breakout Roles, Sydney Sweeney Draws Her Own Maps of the Characters She Inhabits
A reverent initiate of a patriarchal regime; a disturbed young psychiatric hospital ward; a sexually questioning teen with a flair for the dramatic; a mysterious denizen...Inside the Issue: Directing
Think Like A Photographer: Generation Wealth’s Lauren Greenfield Shares How Still Techniques Make Better Movies
The biggest change I experienced when I went from making pictures to making films was the sense of an arc—of creating a story over time, and...Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: Casting Unknowns Was Key to Finding the Laughs and Lived-In Feel of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade
Before I directed my first film, Eighth Grade, I had heard that 90 percent of directing is casting. I’m sure there are other directors who weigh...2