All posts by Grant Phillips
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Yard Dogs Road Show: The Performance Artists Chart Their Long Journey From Stage To Screen
“We originally got together to make films, we didn’t get together to make a band,” Zebu, the writer, narrator, and founding member of Yard Dogs...
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Housing History: Maudie Director Aisling Walsh Rebuilt a Famous Folk Painter’s House For Her Intimate Period Piece
Beyond endless research, painstaking preparations and digging for historical accounts, creating a period piece requires something more than just the knowledge of its time: It requires...
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Global Perspective: Extortion Director Phil Volken Moves From a Local First Film to an International Follow-Up
Peaceful, isolated islands, tranquil seascapes and the slow lull of waves crashing on the beach seem like the ideal setting for relaxation. But when it...
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How Stop-Motion Can Survive: The Past, Present and Future of a Suffering Art (Video)
From The Boxtrolls, to Anomalisa, to Kubo and the Two Strings, stop-motion animation has consecutively held its place within the category of Animated Feature Films at the...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
1Inside the Issue: Directing
Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...