All posts by KJ Doughton
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Festival Diary: Seattle International Film Festival 2015, Part Two
Part 2 of our extended coverage of the Seattle International Film Festival, one of the top festivals in North America since 1976. This year’s festival...
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Festival Diary: Seattle International Film Festival 2015, Part One
Brag as they might, top fests like Sundance, Cannes, and SXSW have nothing on the Seattle International Film Festival when it comes to sheer volume...
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The Dogs of War: Unprecedented Animal Realism in Kornél Mundruczó’s White God
“This one has heart.” That’s the scariest line from White God, Kornél Mundruczó’s poignant, profound film. Why? Because it’s a vow to bleed that canine...
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East of Eden: Megan Griffiths’ Harrowing Tale of Sex-trafficking and Survival
Eden, Megan Griffiths’ stunning new film, exists within the perverted—and unsettlingly pervasive—world of human sex trafficking. A lucrative global industry, the CIA estimates that 50,000...
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Steve “Lips” Kudlow Gets Heavy in Anvil!
He-Man headbangers beware: Anvil! The Story of Anvil will make you weep like a little girl. Screenwriter (The Terminal), first-time director and long-time Anvil devotee...
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Colin Hanks Bucks the Trend
Colin Hanks is intrigued by my tape recorder. It’s an old, gray, brick-sized JC Penney model with only a cassette portal and five plastic buttons...
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King of the Ants
Stuart Gordon In King of the Ants, the latest cringe-fest from director Stuart Gordon, actor Chris McKenna appears to endure the type of punishment not...
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A Cut Above
Thelma Schoonmaker accepts her second Oscar for Best Editing for Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator. Photo: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences It is February,...
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Slevinth Heaven
Lucy Liu and Josh Harnett in Paul McGuigan’s Lucky Number Slevin (2006). Photo: The Weinstein Company Watching cinema scribes hit it big is a beautiful...
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The Color of Forbidden Fruit
Chen Kaige’s The Promise. Photo: Warner Independent Pictures. The Promise glows with the richest colors this side of an April tulip field. A gorgeous opening...
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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...