All posts by Daniel Joyaux
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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...
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Kasi Lemmons: Harriet Is ‘a Savior Movie and Not a Slavery Movie’
Kasi Lemmons didn’t want her new film Harriet to focus on the physical violence of slavery. She wanted it to focus on the woman who...
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Flash Forward: For Wild Rose Star Jessie Buckley, the Best Characters See the World Differently From the Rest
“I worked my ass off get that accent!” says Jessie Buckley, laughing, when asked if it was hard for her to pull off the Glaswegian...
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Flash Forward: Grace Van Patten Takes a Leap into the Unknown in David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
Many actors will tell you that when you read a great script, you just know. But for Grace Van Patten, it was actually not knowing...
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Surrounded By Wolves: Jeremy Saulnier Teamed up with Netflix to Adapt His Latest Atmospheric Thriller Hold the Dark
Since Jeremy Saulnier’s second feature, the slow-burn revenge tale Blue Ruin premiered to rave reviews at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, Saulnier has quickly become one...
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Flash Forward: Kelvin Harrison Jr. is Acting Out Activism Through His Role Selections
“I love first-time filmmakers, because I feel like they have more patience with me. We’re going through it together,” says 23-year-old Kelvin Harrison Jr., fresh...
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Cuba and the Cameraman: Director Jon Alpert Talks Mining Five Decades Worth of Footage to Document a Dictatorship
When documentarian Jon Alpert was first invited to visit Cuba in 1972, he didn’t realize he’d just started a project that would continue (off and...
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An Extraordinary Life: Jane Goodall’s Story is Told in Brett Morgen’s Gripping New Film
Since receiving an Oscar nomination for 1999’s On the Ropes, Brett Morgen has become one of the world’s most acclaimed documentarians. Films like 2002’s The...
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The Artist and his Subject: Rebel in the Rye Capitalizes on Parallels between J.D. Salinger and Holden Caulfield
Danny Strong has acted in some of the most acclaimed television shows of the past two decades (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Mad Men), he created...
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MovieMaker Minute: Drake Doremus Got Newness From First Day of Shooting to Sundance Premiere in 100 Days
Our MovieMaker Minute series of videos are brief little nuggets of inspiration and advice from some of our favorite filmmakers. The final film added to...
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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...