Stories By Carlos Aguilar
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Directing
Soft Touch: Sunao Katabuchi on Crowdfunding the Exquisite Animated War Drama In This Corner of the World
August 11, 2017An in-person conversation with Japanese director Sunao Katabuchi evidences his visually wired mind. In our exchange...
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Other
#BlessedProduction: Ingrid Goes West Director and Stars Talk Instagram Marketing, Social Media Creepiness and More
August 10, 2017Keep it brief, keep it fun, and keep it creative: That’s how an effective social media...
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Interviews
Indie Animated Delight: 2014 French Feature Mune: Guardian of the Moon Opens For One Day in U.S. Theaters
August 8, 2017Experimentation involves risk, a factor that doesn’t figure into the equation of the increasingly homogeneous list...
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Directing
Pleasure and Pain in Guanajuato: Amat Escalante’s The Untamed is an Unusual Sort of Creature Feature
August 1, 2017Three years ago, acclaimed Mexican director Amat Escalante and I sat down over coffee in Downtown...
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Directing
Endless Poetry: Alejandro Jodorowsky on the Freedom of Losing Money, and Making Movies at 88
July 27, 2017Absent from the limelight for over 20 years, the revered visionary, artistic shaman and extreme multi-hyphenate...
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Interviews
Brothers Grimm in Watercolor, Breathing: Sébastien Laudenbach on Animating The Girl Without Hands
July 25, 2017French animator Sébastien Laudenbach’s ethereal first feature The Girl Without Hands, based upon the Brothers Grimm...
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Inside MM - Best Of
The Best Film Schools in the U.S. and Canada 2017: Film Programs to Shape You Into the Next Moviemaking All-Star
July 19, 2017Perhaps you’re someone who dreams of a career in moviemaking, and has come to the realization that...
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Directing
"I Am All My Characters": Director João Pedro Rodrigues on the Transformative Delights of The Ornithologist
June 30, 2017It’s scorching in Los Angeles and it’s just as warm in Paris. That’s what director João...
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Festivals
Three’s Company: A Busy Weekend Of L.A. Film Fests Highlights The City’s Multiculturalism and Fierce Independence
June 19, 2017Repertoire theaters, star-studded evenings, plenty of multiplexes and art houses theaters, as well as a never-ending...
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Festivals
Iberoamerica Takes SIFF 2017: Seattle Audiences at the Largest U.S. Film Festival Embrace Spanish-Language Stories
June 14, 2017Being the brightest one in a sky full of stars is a tough task. How does...
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Directing
The Disease That is Fear: Trey Edward Shults on the Personal Inspiration Behind Horror Film It Comes at Night
June 12, 2017Buried beneath fictional unsettling sounds, survivalist struggles and the absence of light is the real-life, interpersonal...
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Directing
"My Films are Free:" Filipino Master Lav Diaz on His Four-Hour Latest, The Woman Who Left
June 6, 2017For most directors, time is both a currency and a boundary that forces them to adapt...
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Directing
Hive-Minded Moviemaking: Thomas Vinterberg Talks The Commune, Shooting Roundtable Scenes and More
May 22, 2017An auteur is characterized by the idiosyncratic qualities that he or she is able to imprint...
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Documentary
Life After Provocation: Burden Documentarians Tim Marrinan and Richard Dewey on Meeting the Real Chris Burden
May 17, 2017As if on a pilgrimage, scores of tourists and, on occasion, locals have taken advantage of...
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Interviews
Symptoms of the Universe: Sarah Adina Smith’s Buster’s Mal Heart Diagnoses the Thinking Behind Conspiracy Theories
May 11, 2017Conspiracy theorists are addicted to order. Even if their most feared hypotheses about the monstrous entities...
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Festivals
Festival Wrap: A Weekend Film School, Spaceballs Screening and Joe Pantoliano at Sunscreen Film Festival 2017
May 10, 2017Through its unprecedented success on both the festival circuit and mainstream awards platforms, Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight...
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Directing
Unspoken Invitation: In Stéphane Brizé’s A Woman’s Life, The End of Innocence is Timeless
May 5, 2017Victims of social structures that dilute their idealized notions of reality, the characters in director Stéphane Brizé’s...
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Festivals
Festival Wrap: Frederick Wiseman, Animation Shine at Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival 2017
May 3, 2017A hefty slate of international films, both crowd-pleasers and more intellectually challenging fare, is the signature...
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Directing
Under a Lucky Star: Makoto Shinkai Talks Your Name, The Highest-Grossing Anime Film of All Time
April 7, 2017A rare comet shatters the infinite loop of time, linking two unsatisfied teenage lives in the...
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Interviews
No Risk of Cliché: The Unorthodox Methods of Director Albert Serra Pay Off in The Death of Louis XIV
April 5, 2017The contrast between absolute power and total impotence is the thematic core of Albert Serra’s latest...
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Directing
Driven to Madness: Tomáš Weinreb and Petr Kazda Found Humanity, Not Glory, in the Antihero of I, Olga Hepnarová
March 27, 2017For any society, reckoning with the actions of its most troubled members is nigh impossible. Irrationality...
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Directing
Canoa Revisited: Felipe Cazals on His 1976 Masterpiece, Mexican History, Horror Storytelling and Politics in Filmmaking
March 23, 2017In the interim between a Golden Age bogged down with melodramas, stereotypical treatments of masculine and...
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Interviews
Devilish Charisma: Michael Fassbender on Making Song to Song With Terrence Malick and Emmanuel Lubezki
March 22, 2017Overdosing on his on own ambition, confronted with the shattered reality of a broken brotherly bond...
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Directing
Lonely Island: Argyris Papadimitropoulos on Middle Age Frustration and Shooting Suntan Without a Script
March 17, 2017Soaked in a profound yearning for acceptance and subverting tropes associated with youth, Argyris Papadimitropoulos’ dark...
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