Stories By Daniel Joyaux
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Archives
Kelvin Harrison Jr. Acts Out Activism Through His Role Selections
May 22, 2021Kelvin Harrison Jr. starred in three films at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival: Monsters and Men,...
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Inside MM - Acting
Taylor Russell on Waves and Why She’s OK With Being an Adult Who Plays High School Students
November 11, 2019In director Trey Edward Shults’ Waves, Taylor Russell plays the younger sister of Kelvin Harrison Jr.,...
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Directing
Kasi Lemmons: Harriet Is ‘a Savior Movie and Not a Slavery Movie’
November 5, 2019Kasi Lemmons didn’t want her new film Harriet to focus on the physical violence of slavery....
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Movie News
Flash Forward: For Wild Rose Star Jessie Buckley, the Best Characters See the World Differently From the Rest
June 25, 2019“I worked my ass off get that accent!” says Jessie Buckley, laughing, when asked if it...
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Acting
Flash Forward: Grace Van Patten Takes a Leap into the Unknown in David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
April 24, 2019Many actors will tell you that when you read a great script, you just know. But...
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Interviews
Surrounded By Wolves: Jeremy Saulnier Teamed up with Netflix to Adapt His Latest Atmospheric Thriller Hold the Dark
October 9, 2018Since Jeremy Saulnier’s second feature, the slow-burn revenge tale Blue Ruin premiered to rave reviews at the...
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Movie News
Flash Forward: Kelvin Harrison Jr. is Acting Out Activism Through His Role Selections
July 1, 2018“I love first-time filmmakers, because I feel like they have more patience with me. We’re going...
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Directing
Cuba and the Cameraman: Director Jon Alpert Talks Mining Five Decades Worth of Footage to Document a Dictatorship
November 22, 2017When documentarian Jon Alpert was first invited to visit Cuba in 1972, he didn’t realize he’d...
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Movie News
An Extraordinary Life: Jane Goodall’s Story is Told in Brett Morgen’s Gripping New Film
October 18, 2017Since receiving an Oscar nomination for 1999’s On the Ropes, Brett Morgen has become one of...
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Directing
The Artist and his Subject: Rebel in the Rye Capitalizes on Parallels between J.D. Salinger and Holden Caulfield
September 7, 2017Danny Strong has acted in some of the most acclaimed television shows of the past two...
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Festivals
MovieMaker Minute: Drake Doremus Got Newness From First Day of Shooting to Sundance Premiere in 100 Days
February 6, 2017Our MovieMaker Minute series of videos are brief little nuggets of inspiration and advice from some...
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Directing
Staging The Intervention: Writer-Director Clea DuVall Confronts Her Debut Feature, With Melanie Lynskey
August 25, 2016When The Intervention, Clea DuVall’s debut film as writer and director, premiered at Sundance in January,...
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