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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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...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...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...