All posts by Rebecca Pahle
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James Franco vs. the Fact Checkers Unit
Director Dan Beers’ moviemaking success story began with his short film FCU: Fact Checkers Unit, which premiered at Sundance in 2008. The... -
Celluloid Dreams: Matthew Mishory Shoots a First Feature on Film
Director Matthew Mishory’s debut feature, Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean, is a visually stunning, meditative film steeped in the... -
Film History’s Top Five Funny, Foolish, Freaky Aliens
The original Men in Black, released in 1997, was a pitch-perfect combination of action, comedy and sci-fi trappings, and audiences flocked to... -
Having Big Fun in the Big Town
26 years after it was filmed, Dutch director, journalist and rap aficionado Bram Van Splunteren’s Big Fun in the Big Town is... -
Battleship Sunk by The Avengers
It’s three weeks of box office dominance and counting for The Avengers, which easily kept new release Battleship from the number one... -
Go Behind the Scenes of Moonrise Kingdom
Dark Shadows Can’t Bring Down The Avengers
The Avengers handily overpowered Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows over the weekend, becoming the top film at the box office for the second...Telling the Story of Portrait of Wally
The history Egon Schiele’s 1912 oil painting Portrait of Wally is one that seems too incredible to be true. Purchased by Jewish...“It’s Only Forever…”
A Bag of Hammers tells the story of Ben (Jason Ritter, “Parenthood”) and Alan (Jake Sandvig, Easy A), two twentysomething grifters whose...The Journey to The Cup
Here, director Simon Wincer (Free Willy, “Lonesome Dove”) recounts the making of his inspirational sports drama The Cup, based on the true...
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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...Inside 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...