Stories By Carlos Aguilar
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Directing
Love Strong: Jordana Spiro on the Young Cast of Night Comes On and the “Luxury of Vulnerability”
August 9, 2018A brooding atmosphere envelops every frame of Night Comes On, the debut feature by actor-turned-director Jordana...
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Moviemaking
Merchants of Empathy: Carlos López Estrada, Rafael Casal, and Daveed Diggs’ Blindspotting Taps Into the Cultural Consciousness
July 18, 2018Artistic expression feeds on hardship, thrives on restrictions, adjusts to turbulence, and withstands setbacks. That’s the...
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Directing
Believer: Director Don Argott and Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds on Their Doc in Support of LGBTQ Youth
July 3, 2018Molded by his Mormon upbringing, Dan Reynolds, lead singer of the internationally renowned band Imagine Dragons,...
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Directing
Child’s Play: Carla Simón on Directing Her Young Stars and Revisiting Her Memories in Summer 1993
June 8, 2018Stemming from true events in her childhood, Carla Simón’s Summer 1993 is a delicate, accomplished debut feature...
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Festivals
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2018: A Vital Community of Cinematic Truth-Seekers in the American South
May 9, 2018If the state of nonfiction storytelling today could be summarized in a single phrase, it would...
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News
Duck Test: How Miguel Arteta and Alia Shawkat Made Their Taut Relationship Drama Duck Butter in 24 Hours
May 1, 2018For most of her acting career thus far, Alia Shawkat has turned in indelible performances in...
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Directing
Battle Wounds: Chloé Zhao on Fictionalizing Brady Jandreau’s Story for The Rider
April 13, 2018Gravely injured by the very act that elates him, a cowboy in South Dakota is adrift...
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Directing
Ghost Writing: Arnaud Desplechin on Ismael’s Ghosts‘ Film-Within-a-Film, His Director’s Cut, and His Fear of Rehearsals
April 11, 2018French director Arnaud Desplechin’s charmingly self-referential body of work is an ode to the beautiful and often regrettable...
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Directing
Beauty and the Dogs: How Tunisian Director Kaouther Ben Hania Made a Feminist Horror Film in Nine Shots
April 5, 2018Pairing a universally resonant quest for social justice with cinematic boundary-pushing, Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s...
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Directing
Pitch Perfect: Bavo Defurne on Directing Isabelle Huppert and Songwriting for Souvenir
March 20, 2018An elegant ode to fading dreams and the possibility of second chances, director Bavo Defurne’s sophomore...
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