Carlos Aguilar

  • Interviews

Claire Denis Chooses Her Words Carefully 

For Claire Denis, Both Sides of the Blade is both a reunion and a return to Earth. In her first…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

Summertime Director Carlos López Estrada Listens to the Voices of His City

The boldness of Blindspotting, an electric dramedy exploring race and gentrification in Oakland, gained director Carlos López Estrada considerable industry…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

Charm City Kings Director Ángel Manuel Soto Learned to Ride with a Big Studio

Nothing about La Granja, from Ángel Manuel Soto, suggests he would embrace the car chases and tense action of his…

4 years ago
  • Festivals

Five New York Film Festival 2020 Highlights

One of the few positives to come out of the drastically changed festival landscape of 2020 is the expanded reach…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

Best Film Schools in the U.S. & Canada 2020, Presented by CU Boulder

Welcome to MovieMaker's annual list of the Best Film Schools in the U.S. and Canada, at what is obviously a…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

How Marona’s Fantastic Tale Director Anca Damian Animated a Dog’s View of Happiness

Anca Damian got the idea for her film Marona’s Fantastic Tale when she came across a stray puppy while walking…

4 years ago
  • Interviews

Inside The Climb Press Tour: Fun Bike Rides Spiked by Pandemic

Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin co-wrote and co-star in The Climb, a hilarious love letter to a complicated but…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

3 Lessons We Learned from The Farewell Director Lulu Wang at the Miami Film Festival

Lulu Wang is the writer-director behind The Farewell, which follows a Chinese-American woman as she returns to her family’s homeland…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

Wendy Director Benh Zeitlin’s Co-Writer Was Chaos

Beasts of Southern Wild director Benh Zeitlin had two co-writers on his new film Wendy. The first was his sister…

4 years ago
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Timmy Failure: Spotlight Director Tom McCarthy Shifts Focus to a Kid Detective and His Polar Bear

Spotlight director Tom McCarthy turns to a very different kind of investigator for his new film Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

Year on Fire: How Claire Mathon Shot Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Atlantics

In one year, Claire Mathon shot two spellbinding love stories separated by time and geography: Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

Oscar-Shortlisted International Directors Tackle Global Issues Through Homeland Perspectives

With the Oscar nominations less than a week away, filmmakers vying for Best International Feature Film nominations gathered at the…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

From After Lucia to Young and Wild: Watch Highlights of Some of the Decade’s Best Latin American Cinema

Want to watch a few beautiful moments of the best Latin American cinema of the last decade? MovieMaker contributor Carlos…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

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…

4 years ago
  • Festivals

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…

5 years ago
  • Movie News

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,…

5 years ago
  • Movie News

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…

5 years ago
  • Acting

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…

5 years ago
  • Directing

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…

5 years ago
  • Movie News

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…

5 years ago
  • Directing

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…

5 years ago
  • Directing

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,…

5 years ago
  • Directing

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…

5 years ago
  • Directing

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…

5 years ago