All posts by Rebecca Pahle
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Wisdom: Sol Negrin on Teaching Cinematography
Veteran cinematographer Sol Negrin, ASC understands the challenges of bringing cinematography from the set to the classroom. Now a professor at New York’s Five Towns...
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Resurrecting Sixto Rodriguez: Malik Bendjelloul’s Searching For Sugarman
In the 1970s, the music of a mysterious singer-songwriter named Rodriguez became the anthem for a generation of Afrikaners increasingly isolated from the outside world...
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Deconstructing Dad with Stan Warnow
If someone had suggested to me 20 years ago that I make a personal film about my father, I would have dismissed the idea out...
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Box Office Goes R-Rated with Ted and Magic Mike
After three weeks of kid’s movies dominating the box office, R-rated comedies Ted and Magic Mike surpassed expectations to earn weekend grosses of $54.1 million...
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MM Remembers: Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron, the director behind rom-com classics You’ve Got Mail and Sleepless in Seattle (both of which she also wrote), passed away yesterday in her...
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Brave Fells the Competition
Pixar showed Honest Abe where it’s at; Brave‘s opening weekend saw the animation giant’s first female-led film pull in $66.7 million at the box office,...
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Celebrating the Power of Collaboration with CFC
Film is a collaborative medium. Every moviemaker knows it, and it’s a fact that is celebrated by the Collaboration Filmmakers Challenge (CFC). The only moviemaking...
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Taking a Leap of Faith
Director Vikram Gandhi is not a guru. But he plays one in the documentary Kumaré, opening tomorrow, which sees him adopt the guise of an...
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Madagascar 3 Stays on Top
Neither Tom Cruise nor Adam Sandler had the power to take down a bunch of talking animals at the box office. New releases Rock of...
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Shorter is Better at the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival
The 2012 CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival (WSFF) has come to a close, and with the fest’s Closing Awards Picnic, held on June 10th, two...
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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...