All posts by Sam Adams
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Chewing on What it Means to be Human: Raw Director Julia Ducournau on Her Cannibalistic Coming of Age Movie
Accidentally seeing The Texas Chain Saw Massacre at the age of six is the perfect origin story for a horror director, the... -
A Cinema of Confrontation: With The Look of Silence, Joshua Oppenheimer Ekes Truth from Guilt and Denial
Over the years, many filmmakers have redefined documentary. Few, however, have composed a new vocabulary for the medium as systematically as Joshua... -
A Terrible, Beautiful Experience: Bennett Miller Exposes His Actors to Profound and Painful Depths For Foxcatcher
Talk to the actors who made Foxcatcher—Steve Carell, who plays eccentric millionaire John Eleuthère du Pont, Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo as...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Flash Forward: Grace Van Patten Takes a Leap into the Unknown in David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
Many actors will tell you that when you read a great script, you just know. But for Grace Van Patten, it was actually not knowing that...Inside the Issue: Directing
Success in Succession: Matteo Garrone Shot Dogman Entirely in Sequence to Put Viewers in His Character’s Shoes
I wrote the script for my new film, Dogman, 12 years ago, and during those years I changed it many times, arriving at six or seven...Inside the Issue: How To
Journalism Plus: How Hail Satan?, The Brink, and Leaving Neverland Blend Truth-Seeking With Cinematic Storytelling
“Journalism Plus” is how Academy Award-winning moviemaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) characterizes making documentaries. If you’re a documentarian, you may not have a degree or credentials in...8