All posts by Katherine Brodsky
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In Guns Akimbo, Daniel Radcliffe and Jason Lei Howden Imagine Having Guns Bolted to Your Hands
Jason Lei Howden’s Guns Akimbo imagines Daniel Radcliffe as an online troll who wakes up one day with guns bolted to his hands. It’s a...
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Gael Garcia Bernal Says His Film Chicuarotes Doesn’t Want Easy Answers
In the opening scene of Chicuarotes, the second film Gael Garcia Bernal has directed, two teens board a bus in clown makeup and do a...
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Hands Up: Spotlight on Whistler Film Festival 2017
While accepting an award from the Alliance of Women Film Journalists at the Whistler Film Festival in 2013, DIY indie filmmaking queen Ingrid Veninger made...
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“Trimming the Fat”: A Slimmer TIFF 2017 Lineup Still Offers a Robust Selection of Quality Programming
This year, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) chose to cut the number of films it opted to include in its lineup by about 20...
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Prisoners and Acting: An Interview with Melissa Leo
MovieMaker spoke to Melissa Leo, one of 2013’s hardest-working actresses (she turned in performances in six of the year’s releases, including Oblivion and Prisoners), earlier...
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Cheap Effects: Ways to Pull Off Impressive FX in a Pinch
When it comes to a movie of any budget, good storytelling is always key. Sometimes, though, part of that storytelling includes visual and special effects....
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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...