All posts by Ryan Coleman
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Brooklyn’s Better: Lytehouse Studio Offers Cutting-Edge Production Facilities Without Skyline-High Manhattan Rates
Even back then cheap apartments were hard to find in Manhattan,” says Peter MacNicol during his opening monologue in Sophie’s Choice. Shot... -
Transit: Christian Petzold Connects Past and Present Europe in His Refugee Drama
There is an incredible moment in Christian Petzold’s new film Transit where our hero Georg (played inscrutably by Franz Rogowski), a refugee... -
Mixed Media: Award-Winning Touch Me Not Explores Notions of Intimacy Through a Variety of Boundary-Pushing Methods
Part documentary, part narrative feature, part research project, part autofiction, Romanian writer/director Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not rests comfortably on the boundary between genres... -
Still Learning: Ben Is Back Writer-Director Peter Hedges on Depicting Addiction
Ben Is Back is the wonderful new feature film from writer-director Peter Hedges (What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Dan in Real Life). The... -
21st Century Icon: Vox Lux Director Brady Corbet Used Dogme 95 and Super Bowl Cameras to Craft His Pop Epic
Vox Lux is a very big and puzzling movie that is now out, from director Brady Corbet. You may remember Corbet’s last... -
Full of Color: Nijla Mu’min on Seeking Representation in Her New Film Jinn
Nijla Mu’min and I are on the phone talking about rep sweats. “Have you heard of the NPR podcast Code Switch?” I... -
Fall From Race: Jason Reitman Talks Gary Hart’s Political Demise in The Front Runner, Releasing Two Films in One Year
On April 13, 1987 a young, charismatic, Democratic Senator from Colorado hauled a small caravan of press, aides, and family up to... -
Book Review: Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood
Karina Longworth is best known as the creator, producer, and host of popular Hollywood history podcast You Must Remember This, with past... -
Flash Forward: How Assassination Nation Star Odessa Young Harnessed Her Self-Described “Pure, White Hot Energy”
The brutal, bombastic cultural satire that is Assassination Nation explodes into theaters this month, introducing vast new swaths of audience to its... -
Pieces of Work: Marc Turtletaub on Moving from Producing Indie Darlings to the Director’s Chair for Puzzle
You will know the work of prolific producer and sometime director Marc Turtletaub, but may not recognize his name. Like Kelly Macdonald...
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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...