All posts by John Gallagher
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“It Took Me 20 Years to Become an Actor”: A Conversation with the Late, Great Eli Wallach
Eli Wallach is revered as one of the greatest character actors in cinema history. With a film, television and stage career spanning several decades, through...
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How They Did It: Working With Students and Screen Vets Alike on an 18-Day Shoot to Make Sarah Q
I’ve been making movies professionally since 1978, when I stepped out of Emerson College in Boston and right into directing my first feature, Beach House...
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“I Loved John. I Miss Him a Lot.” Peter Bogdanovich Reminisces on His Friend John Cassavetes
Peter Bogdanovich’s relationships with veteran filmmakers like Orson Welles, Howard Hawks and John Ford are well known. Before he became the celebrated director of The...
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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...
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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...