All posts by Phillip Williams
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The Laws of Nature, the Study of Violence: Taylor Sheridan Takes Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen to Wind River
“There’s an interesting thing about this business,” says Taylor Sheridan. “It tells you what you’re supposed to be doing. A lot of... -
Reclaiming Rewards From Rip-Offs: How to Live with Piracy
As soon as a moviemaker fortunate enough to score a release is finished with the high fives, one of the first things he... -
The Fire Inside: Jason Segel Resurrects The Muppets
Not long ago, MovieMaker Magazine caught up with Jason Segel to ask him about his role in the resurrection of The Muppets franchise. It... -
Tarsem Singh Sees the Future
Director Tarsem Singh is on a roll. With his international box office triumph Immortals still collecting receipts, and his newest picture, Mirror... -
Culture and Transformation Come to the Rainforest with the Amazonas Film Festival
The Amazonas Film Festival, which took place from November 3-9, completed its eighth annual run with a rich cycle of features from... -
Drawing from the Classics: Tarsem Singh’s Immortals
Tarsem Singh is on a roll. With his new film Immortals—in which Theseus (Henry Cavill) is a mortal man chosen by Zeus... -
Ellen Page’s Dream Job
Rising star Ellen Page—the heart and soul of Jason Reitman’s 2007 indie hit Juno—is turning up on Hollywood marquees more and more... -
Of Micmacs and Moviemaking
French moviemaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s latest film, Micmacs, gets its stateside release this spring. For the famed director of Delicatessen (1991), The City... -
James Cameron Mixes It Up With Avatar
Most moviemakers will tell you that story trumps technology on the best movie sets. It is nonetheless fair to say that advances... -
New Moon Rising
Something striking has occurred in the career of Chris Weitz. Once the self-described “techie” half of a low-key directing duo with brother...
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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...1Inside 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...