All posts by MM Writers
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Sundance Film Festival: Seven Breakthrough Moviemakers at Park City in 2018
Much has been written about the smaller nature of this year’s Sundance 2018 Film Festival. While some applauded this return-to-roots of championing “emerging” voices, others...
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Sundance Film Festival: 10 Park City Breakthroughs 2017
Let these 10 faces be your antidote to every name who elbowed his film into the Sundance Film Festival line-up as so-and-so’s nephew. This is...
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Quiz: Can You Guess the Film From the Saul Bass Title Sequence?
On May 8, 1920, Hollywood’s most influential graphic designer, Saul Bass, was born. Over the course of four decades, Bass designed some of the most...
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Quiz: How Well Do You Know Quentin Tarantino Movies?
Always at the center of controversy, Quentin Tarantino packs his films with incredible imagery, fantastic dialogue and violence that has won him scores of fans...
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Quiz: Can You Guess the David Lynch Film From a Single Image?
David Lynch is known for his wondrous mix of the glorious and the macabre, doling out the strange and the beautiful in equal measure. Whether...
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Quiz: Can You Guess the Movie From the Famous Tattoo?
Tattoos have always played small but important roles in movies. Whether marking a villain or showcasing a hidden truth, these indelible ink stains both move...
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Quiz: Can You Guess the Stanley Kubrick Film From a Single Image?
Stanley Kubrick stands as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time. From his groundbreaking work in Paths of Glory (1957) to the lasting...
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Quiz: What Kind of Horror Film Should You Make?
So you’re dying to make a horror film. What kind, though? It sounds like an easy question, but given the immense amount of genre-bending that...
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Sundance Film Festival: 12 Breakthroughs from Park City 2016
A happy year at Sundance offers forth not a spring of fresh blood, but a geyser. This was one of those years, where categories were...
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Park City: 13 Breakthroughs from Sundance 2015
Sometimes calling someone a “Sundance darling” can feel patronizing, as if their onscreen achievements, whatever those may be, only rank within Park City’s altitudinous, hyperbolic...
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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...