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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
Taylor Russell on Waves and Why She’s OK With Being an Adult Who Plays High School Students
In director Trey Edward Shults’ Waves, Taylor Russell plays the younger sister of Kelvin Harrison Jr., even though she’s five days older than him in real life. In fact,...
Inside the Issue: Directing
Rob Zombie: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Rob Zombie still can’t let go of some of his past off-screen nightmares. “After I finished Halloween II, I was so beat up by the process that I hated...
Inside the Issue: How To
Edward Norton Walks Us Through Every Part of Making Motherless Brooklyn
Edward Norton is the best possible person to explain each stage of the moviemaking process for his new drama Motherless Brooklyn—he’s the film’s writer, director and lead actor. For...