All posts by Jennifer Soong
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Michael Patrick King Talks About Sex
In 2004, during the final season of HBO’s “Sex and the City,” Carrie Bradshaw dangerously flirted with love in Paris and the seed for a...
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Xan Cassavetes
After funding for her feature film, The Sky Is Green, fell through, Xan Cassavetes found inspiration—and a new project—in her memories of LA’s Z Channel....
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Richard Kelly’s Second Chance: The Director Reflects on How Donnie Darko Became a Cult Hit
Movies that barely net a half million at the box office are generally written off as duds in Hollywood. But Donnie Darko, Richard Kelly’s promising...
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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...