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Movie News
Quentin Tarantino: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
March 1, 2020Quentin Tarantino never went to film school. But he has a lot to teach, from the...
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Movie News
A Hidden Life: August Diehl and Valerie Pachner Say Terrence Malick Filmed Them While Sleeping in Between Takes
December 13, 2019A Hidden Life director Terrence Malick has a reputation for keeping a low public profile. But...
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Movie News
Quentin Tarantino: What Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Borrows From The Stuntman
December 13, 2019Quentin Tarantino says part of the story structure of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood is...
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Movie News
In Fabric Director Peter Strickland and The Lighthouse Director Robert Eggers Share How David Lynch Changed Their Lives
December 10, 2019When MovieMaker put In Fabric director Peter Strickland and The Lighthouse director Robert Eggers together on...
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Movie News
In Fabric Director Peter Strickland and The Lighthouse Director Robert Eggers on the Pros and Cons of Research
December 5, 2019(Spoiler warning: This discussion between In Fabric director Peter Strickland and The Lighthouse director Robert Eggers...
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Movie News
What Alex Gibney Learned From Martin Scorsese
December 1, 2019Citizen K director Alex Gibney produced two episodes of the Martin Scorsese PBS series The Blues...
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Movie News
How Citizen K Director Alex Gibney Gets the Toughest Interview Subjects to Open Up
November 27, 2019Alex Gibney, director of the new documentary Citizen K, believes most people want to tell their...
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Movie News
MovieMaker Wants to Hear From You: Take Our Reader Survey
November 19, 2019MovieMaker‘s mission is to deliver you the best coverage of the art and business of making...
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Directing
Edward Norton: No One Works Better With Composers Than Wes Anderson
November 9, 2019Edward Norton says most film scores are introduced to the moviemaking process much too late. The...
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Movie News
Edward Norton Set Motherless Brooklyn Aside for So Long He Didn’t Remember Writing It
November 7, 2019Edward Norton set the script for Motherless Brooklyn aside for a while, just like many writers...
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Festivals
Festival Beat: Elevated Programming Makes Jury Duty Fun at Mammoth Lakes Film Festival 2019
August 29, 2019Having narrowly escaped jury duty this past spring, I volunteered myself for another. No, not for...
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Best Of
Hollywood Ending: Quentin Tarantino on Making Movies, Finding Love, and Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood
July 26, 2019The first time Quentin Tarantino and I connect, he offers me an apology. “I’m not trying...
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Festivals
Fantaspoa 2018: Genre Moviemaking’s Heart Beats Louder, Longer, and Livelier in Porto Alegre, Brazil
July 24, 2018“Once I get started, I won’t be able to stop.” It’s 1 a.m. in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and I’m sandwiched between...
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Festivals
Slamdance Film Festival 2018: Park City’s Other Annual Film Fest Dances to its Own Drummer, Busts Some New Moves
June 20, 2018If 2018 was the year Sundance struggled to answer how much of its DNA is market-driven...
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Movie News
Cinequest Film & VR Festival 2018: Trends Are Set, Not Followed, At This Silicon Valley-Based Multimedia Showcase
May 24, 2018While a chilly drizzle washed away late winter with early spring in downtown San Jose, a...
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Directing
Desert Eagle: How Coralie Fargeat Shot Revenge in the Moroccan Desert, Preserved Her Creative Freedom, and More
May 15, 2018If you’d have told film critics five years ago (or maybe even just last year) that...
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Festivals
FilmQuest 2017: This Mormon Country Genre Fest Makes Every Outsider Feel at Home
March 7, 2018A piercing white patch of light trapped between pitch black sky, glowing ethereally against the silhouettes...
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Festivals
Tacoma Film Festival 2017: The Odds Of Meeting Your Next Creative Partner Are High At This Northwestern Indie Hub
February 14, 2018Like ships coming in to dock at the city’s urban port, burgeoning moviemakers arrived at Tacoma...
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Directing
“Society is the Monster”: Jordan Peele on Racism as Horror, Writers’ Block and More at 2017 Film Independent Forum
October 31, 2017“Any good scary moment or scene is not very intellectual for me. It’s from the gut....
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Festivals
Portland Film Festival 2017 Preview: Co-Founder Josh Leake Teases Highlights, Diverse Programming, and More
October 29, 2017With this year’s edition of the Portland Film Festival kicking off tomorrow, we spoke with co-founder...
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Directing
Frame of Mind: To Do True Crime Right, The Confession Tapes Used Private Interview Locations and Macro Lenses (Video)
October 26, 2017What makes a scene work? Does it lie in the carefully executed plans of a film’s...
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Other
Exclusive: Watch Aml Ameen Navigate the Dark Side of Wall Street in This Clip From The Price (Video)
October 25, 2017What’s the price one pays for a cushy job on Wall Street? That’s one of the...
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Directing
Exclusive: Watch Del the Funky Homosapien Rap Over Stop-Motion Wizardry in Video for L’Orange’s "Blame the Author"
October 24, 2017Yes, you can make a fantastical production on a real-boy budget. That’s the conceit of director...
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Moviemaking
Exclusive: Watch John Malkovich Narrate the End of the World in Short Film “Hell” (Video)
October 17, 2017If thou stare long into John Malkovich, John Malkovich will also gaze into thee. And when...
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