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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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)... -
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... -
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,... -
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...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Mads Mikkelsen
From Star Wars to Marvel, from prestige TV (Hannibal) to high-profile Oscar contenders (At Eternity’s Gate), Mads Mikkelsen can be seen stretching his dramatic skills across the board these...Inside the Issue: Directing
The 2019 MovieMaker Sundance Survey: Eleven Sundance-Selected Films, and Their Mountain-Bound Makers
The 35th Sundance Film Festival received a record-breaking 14,000-plus submissions, with 4,000-plus feature-length films among them. Of the 112 features selected, 45 of their makers were first-timers. The fest’s...1Inside the Issue: How To
Breaking and Entering, Part One: How To Shoot Down Self-Doubt and Pay the Rent While Making It In the Film Industry
Becoming a moviemaker seemed like an impossibly ambitious goal when I was growing up. I was living in Brazil, watching bootleg copies of David Cronenberg films and, with...