All posts by Josh Ralske
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“We Don’t Have Time to Test Our Lenses. We’ve Gotta Shoot Film”: Kelly Reichardt Talks Making Certain Women
Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women is a departure for her in some ways. It’s the first feature she’s worked on without a writing partner since her...
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Breaking Down the News: In Antonio Campos’ Christine, Rebecca Hall Find the Darkness That She’s Been Looking For
The late Christine Chubbuck is more famous than one might expect of a local Sarasota journalist who focused on relatively mundane issues like zoning and...
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Welcome to the Doghouse: With Wiener-Dog, the Idiosyncratic Todd Solondz is Sticking to Old Tricks
Todd Solondz is a polarizing moviemaker, to be sure, but no one can deny that the man has a distinctive style. His last film, 2011’s...
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Mother Monster: Goodnight Mommy Takes New Delight in the Classic Evil Mom Trope
To watch Austrian duo Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz’s Goodnight Mommy is to be subject to an emotional resonance and a merciless wit that goes...
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Restless Heart, Roving Camera: Cary Fukunaga Marries Electric Passion and Technique in Beasts of No Nation
Two years ago, only cinephiles knew who Cary Joji Fukunaga was. He was the Oakland-born writer-director of gritty, modestly budgeted films, one about the hardships...
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Dark Horse: Interview with Jesse Eisenberg on Night Moves
As the lead environmental terrorist in Night Moves, Jesse Eisenberg takes it very seriously. John Ralske, MovieMaker Magazine (MM): This seems like a very different...
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Capturing the Night: DP Christopher Blauvelt on Night Moves
Christopher Blauvelt is a rising star behind the camera, as cinematographer for 2013’s The Bling Ring and Max Rose, and this year’s Low Down and...
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Jia Zhangke Exclusive: The renowned director talks about A Touch of Sin
At this year’s New York Film Festival, internationally renowned filmmaker Jia Zhangke showed his new film, A Touch of Sin, his first narrative feature since...
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2013 Los Angeles Film Festival: 10 Premieres to Catch at LAFF
This year’s Los Angeles Film Festival (LAFF) offers a uniquely broad-ranging view of contemporary cinema. Aside from their World Premiere-heavy Documentary and Narrative Competitions, the...
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If Only I Could Cannes:
9 Cannes premieres to look out for (that I won’t get to see till they come to New York)Festival de Cannes is upon us. Like me, you wish you were there. Or unlike me, you are there, which raises the question of why...
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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...