All posts by Melissa Rose Kimbler
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Sundance Goes Green with “What’s the Big Idea?” Contest
It’s hard to escape the buzzword “green” nowadays. More and more people are trying to make their everyday activities environmentally-friendly. Sundance Channel... -
Fantasy Comes Alive in New Zealand
When The Lord of the Rings trilogy became a cultural phenomenon, people no longer had to imagine J.R.R. Tolkien’s mystical, supernatural universe;... -
Lifetime Movie Networks Contest Gives Female Moviemakers a Voice
Of the three women who have been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director, not one has taken home the little... -
Harry Potter’s World Comes to a City Near You
It’s really impossible to hear something like “sorting hat” or “invisibility cloak” and not feel at least a little of the allure... -
Kodak Named Technology Sponsor at Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Film Festival has selected the Eastman Kodak Company as its official Technology Sponsor. Kodak will provide educational segments and product... -
Guillermo del Toro to direct The Hobbit
It’s official: Guillermo del Toro, director of the Oscar-winning, Spanish-language feature Pan’s Labyrinth, has signed on to direct two movies based on... -
The Dark Knight Wins MovieTickets.com Challenge
This summer is unusually packed full of comic book and graphic novel adaptations, starring old favorites and some fresh faces. In light... -
TVLand.com Launches Movie Database
There is something so satisfying about two hours worth of plot, action and dialogue crammed into three minutes of fast-paced delight. Yesterday,... -
Documentary Channel Honors John Huston
Everyone knows Oscar-winning director John Huston as the man behind such classic fiction films as The Maltese Falcon and The Treasure of... -
Los Angeles United Film Festival Kicks Off
At its core, the Los Angeles United Film Festival believes that a film festival can unite people from diverse backgrounds through their...
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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...Inside 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...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...