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7 Righteous Gemstones-Coen Brothers Parallels for Truly Devoted Fans
Danny McBride’s The Righteous Gemstones feels almost as indebted to the Coen Brothers as it does to McBride’s past HBO shows, Eastbound & Down and Vice Principals....
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Watch Martin Scorsese’s Full Comments on ‘Theme Park’ Marvel Movies (Video)
Martin Scorsese’s latest comments on “theme park” Marvel movies and how they have “invaded” theaters are bound to be misinterpreted as an attack on Marvel....
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El Camino: 3 Breaking Bad Mysteries It Solves, and 3 Questions It Leaves Hanging
(Spoiler warning: This contains El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie spoilers. Don’t read on if you haven’t seen it. There are also six-year-old spoilers about...
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Quentin Tarantino: “Casting Robert Forster in Jackie Brown Was One of the Best Choices I’ve Ever Made”
Quentin Tarantino, who directed Robert Forster in the actor’s gorgeous comeback film, Jackie Brown, said in a statement Saturday that casting Forster was “one of...
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Goodfellas: How That Very Long Tracking Shot Went Comically Wrong
The continuous three-minute Goodfellas tracking shot that takes us into the Copacabana nightclub and shows us what a big deal Henry Hill has become is...
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13 Joker Easter Eggs and Inspirations: The King of Comedy is Just the Start
Todd Phillips’ Joker borrows unapologetically from other movies, especially Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and King of Comedy. One way Joker pays its respects to those...
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This Robert De Niro The King of Comedy Anecdote Explains a Lot About His Process
Joker director Todd Phillips says Joaquin Phoenix and Robert De Niro clashed over whether to read through the entire script before shooting. An anecdote from The King...
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El Camino: Why The Setting of That Opening Scene Looks So Familiar
(Spoiler warning: Don’t read this if you haven’t seen El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie and don’t want any details, including on its opening scene....
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El Camino: Why Vince Gilligan Stays Focused on the Corner of Holly and Arroz
Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan makes the interesting decision to let his camera linger, 25 minutes into his new film El Camino, on street signs...
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Eddie Murphy Loves Dolemite, and This Story Shows How Much
Chappelle’s Show co-creator Neal Brennan shared an anecdote in his latest podcast that shows how deeply Eddie Murphy loved Dolemite even years before he starred in Dolemite...
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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...
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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...