Stories By Ryan Williams
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Festivals
Festival Beat: Timeless Titles Grow Old But Never Die at TCM Classic Film Festival 2019
September 10, 2019Repertory cinema is alive and well across the world, and the TCM Classic Film Festival is...
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Book Reviews
Book Review: Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art
April 10, 2019In this exploration of Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki’s filmography, professor Susan Napier paints a fascinating portrait...
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Book Reviews
Book Review: Understanding Steven Spielberg
April 10, 2019Much has been written about Steven Spielberg. He is, after all, the highest-grossing director of all...
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MM Guide 2019
Pictures Worth a Thousand Jobs: Netflix’s Blockbuster Deal with ABQ Studios is Poised to Bring Thousands of Jobs to New Mexico
March 14, 2019In a year where Netflix has continued to grow at an astounding rate, the streaming platform’s...
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Festivals
Milwaukee Film Festival 2018: Cream City Hosts Cream of the Crop in Local, Awards-Contending, and Lost Silent Cinema
February 21, 2019Milwaukee may not be the first city that jumps to mind when thinking of the film...
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Other
Deep in the Heart of Waco: Behind the Scenes of the Small Texas City and its Burgeoning Film Festival
January 10, 2019Located right in between Texan powerhouses Houston and Austin, Waco has been slowly but surely making...
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Interviews
Unlocking the Key: Charlie Plummer on his Horrifying Discovery of The Clovehitch Killer
November 21, 2018Building up an impressive resume, Charlie Plummer continues his budding career with this viscerally effective horror...
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Festivals
2018 Beyond Fest Preview: Five Screenings to Catch at Los Angeles’ Expertly Programmed Genre Festival
September 15, 2018Returning for the sixth time, Beyond Fest continues to build on its reputation as the home...
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Criterion Crash Course
Criterion Crash Course: Moviemaking Lessons from Criterion’s The Tree of Life
September 12, 2018Whether you’re a moviemaker, critic, or devoted film collector, lovers of cinema can all agree: A...
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Movie News
“Someone to Last Your Whole Life”: James Ivory on Celebrating Maurice Over 30 Years Later
May 16, 2018Hot off of his Academy Award win for Best Adapted Screenplay, James Ivory’s 1987 follow-up to...
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Book Reviews
Like Brothers: Mark and Jay Duplass Explore Their Fraternal Filmmaking Bond in New Memoir
May 11, 2018“How do you make it in this brutal fucking business?” This is the question that indie...
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Other
Keep on Keepin’ On: Mario Van Peebles on How His Father Brought Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song to Life
May 10, 2018A trailblazer in radical 1970s cinema, Melvin van Peebles’ home-grown experimental milestone gained a new audience...
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Directing
Exclusive: Andover Examines Love, Death and Resurrection (Video)
May 3, 2018There is nothing as permanent as death and there is no desire as strong as the...
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Directing
Taylor Made: Deon Taylor on How His Self-Made Moviemaking Journey Led Him to Direct Traffik
April 19, 2018One of the hardest working filmmakers in the industry, Deon Taylor has been making features for...
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Cinematography
Discover Cinematographer Roger Deakins’ Most Trusted and True Visual Techniques (Video)
March 5, 2018One of the most celebrated cinematographers in filmmaking, Roger Deakins has, until last night, been always...
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Directing
Getting to the Heart of Lady Bird: What Makes Greta Gerwig’s Debut Tick
March 3, 2018In the pantheon of mother-daughter movies, it might seem like a simplistic statement to say that...
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Directing
The Art of Fear: How Christopher Nolan Uses Perspective to Express Fear in Dunkirk
March 3, 2018Garnering Christopher Nolan his very first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director, Dunkirk represents...
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Directing
A Living Thing: How Paul Thomas Anderson Makes Emotions Visual
March 3, 2018With Phantom Thread giving Paul Thomas Anderson his first Best Director nomination since 2007, the American auteur has...
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Movie News
Logan Lucky: How Interactions Between Genres Led to an Oscar Nomination for James Mangold’s Superhero Film
March 3, 2018In this video essay, Evan Puschak of Nerdwriter seeks to examine the many different ways by...
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Other
Inside The Shimmer: Oscar-Winning VFX Supervisor Andrew Whitehurst Takes Us Behind Annihilation‘s Stunning VFX
February 23, 2018Many filmmakers have attempted to translate the unknowable horrors of the Lovecraftian mythology to a visual...
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Directing
Exclusive: Andrea Bocelli Looks Back On His Rocky, Rewarding Life in This Clip From The Music of Silence (Video)
February 8, 2018The Music of Silence casts a poetic lens on the life of Andrea Bocelli, the famed Italian...
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Directing
Blow by Blow: How Francois Truffaut and His New Wave Contemporaries Deconstructed Filmmaking
February 6, 2018As one of the founding fathers of the French New Wave, Francois Truffaut used cinema to...
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Festivals
Telluride or Die: Telluride’s Student Symposium is a Young Filmmaker’s Dream Come True, Says a 2017 Grad
September 8, 2017I had the honor of attending last weekend’s Telluride Film Festival as a member of its...
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Directing
Wonder Women: 10 Female Directors Who Made the Jump From Indie to Mainstream
June 2, 2017It’s always been tough for female directors to find the same amount of work that male...
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