All posts by Carlos Aguilar
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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 entry in the...
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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 at the 2018...
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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 she’s a part...
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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 recovery and the...
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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 reverberate throughout his...
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Beauty and the Dogs: How Tunisian Director Kaouther Ben Hania Made a Feminist Horror Film in Nine Shots
Pairing a universally resonant quest for social justice with cinematic boundary-pushing, Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s Beauty and the Dogs is an unmissable feature that’s as empowering...
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Pitch Perfect: Bavo Defurne on Directing Isabelle Huppert and Songwriting for Souvenir
An elegant ode to fading dreams and the possibility of second chances, director Bavo Defurne’s sophomore feature Souvenir channels Eurovision glamour into an unlikely romance....
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2018 Independent Spirit Awards: Ten Moviemakers Share the Lessons They Learned While Making Their Nominated Films
Outside of the dozen or so studio releases that capture the attention of major awards voting blocs and, in turn, moviegoers, few other productions—particularly those that...
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Festival Wrap: Indie Memphis 2017 Celebrates 20 Years of Flavorful Cinema
From the moment you arrive at the airport in Memphis, Tennessee, Elvis Presley follows you around as an omnipresent figure. Indeed, the city’s musical past...
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Fighting Words: Samuel Maoz’s Foxtrot Portrays Grief in Strictly Visual Terms
With his first feature Lebanon and his latest Foxtrot, Israeli auteur Samuel Maoz—a former tank gunner turned Golden Lion-winner—crafts sensorial cinema about trauma. Galvanized by the...
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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...