All posts by Paul Tukey
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Medicinal Moviemaking: To Document a Spiritual Quest, Reality of Truth Zooms In On Shrooms and Other Psychedelics
“And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as...
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Turning the Tide: With Over 60 Million Views, Fisher Stevens’ Before the Flood Warms New Generations to Environmentalism
He was, like the rest of us who count ourselves among the environmental community, still emotionally hung over on the 10th day of November in...
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The Art of the Interview: 10 Essential Tenets of On-Camera Conversation
Ken Burns stopped. The legendary documentarian typically plows forward with the relentless tenacity of a cragged New Englander picking rocks from a bony potato field...
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After Suffering PTSD, Amy Ziering Returns to The Hunting Ground with Kirby Dick
She patiently listened to the details, time and time again, that sounded too eerily similar. A few sordid, graphic and incomprehensible stories of violent rape...
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LOST ANGELS: The true story behind The Soloist hits the big screen
Immersion. It’s a technique favored by actors in advance of challenging roles, but the furthest thing from Gary Foster’s mind when the local newspaper thumped...
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Adam Yauch Talks No Impact Man and More
Adam Yauch is best known for spouting his vicious poetics as a founding member of the Beastie Boys. In 2008, however, the devoted Buddhist ventured...
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Ted Braun Discusses Darfur Now
The impact of his first big-screen documentary may not be fully appreciated for years. Even with Don Cheadle and George Clooney as principle characters in...
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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...