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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
Flash Forward: Grace Van Patten Takes a Leap into the Unknown in David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
Many actors will tell you that when you read a great script, you just know. But for Grace Van Patten, it was actually not knowing that...1Inside the Issue: Directing
Success in Succession: Matteo Garrone Shot Dogman Entirely in Sequence to Put Viewers in His Character’s Shoes
I wrote the script for my new film, Dogman, 12 years ago, and during those years I changed it many times, arriving at six or seven...Inside the Issue: How To
Journalism Plus: How Hail Satan?, The Brink, and Leaving Neverland Blend Truth-Seeking With Cinematic Storytelling
“Journalism Plus” is how Academy Award-winning moviemaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) characterizes making documentaries. If you’re a documentarian, you may not have a degree or credentials in...8