All posts by Natalie Chudnovsky
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“An Evolution in Long-Form Storytelling:” An Interview with Marco Polo Co-Show Runner Daniel Minahan
On the heels of Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos’ announcement that Netflix will aim to premiere new original content every two and a half weeks,...
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Intimate Terror: Rose Leslie and Harry Treadaway Embody a Fractured Relationship in Honeymoon
Leigh Janiak’s psychological thriller Honeymoon brings together actors Rose Leslie and Harry Treadaway as a recently married couple under one cabin roof. As one would...
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Flash Forward: Interview with the Fearless Carla Juri of Wetlands
Swiss actress Carla Juri makes a splash (a putrid, bacteria-laden splash) in the NSFW German film Wetlands, which premiered at Sundance this January, and opens...
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Small Budget Horrors: Director Leigh Janiak on Psychological Thriller Honeymoon
Leigh Janiak took a circuitous route to filmmaking – she was studying for her PhD in Modern Jewish Literature when she realized that she wanted...
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Feast for the Eyes: Breakfast at Howl’s Moving Castle
Food is a rich cultural signifier and storytelling device, both ripe for fetishization and so familiar that we often overlook its cinematic affect. In Feast for...
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Dead Poets Society: 25th Anniversary with Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, and more
This month marks the 25th anniversary of Peter Weir’s coming-of-age drama, Dead Poets Society (we can’t believe it’s been that long, either). Revisit the end...
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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...