Sonya Alexander

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With Breathe, Stefon Bristol Aims for Spike Lee Meets Steven Spielberg

Breathe director Stefon Bristol’s love for sci-fi began with Jurassic Park. As he grew up and thought about how, as…

2 weeks ago
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Bob Marley: One Love Director Reinaldo Marcus Green Says Jamaica ‘Stood Up to Help Us Make This Movie’

Reinaldo Marcus Green is no stranger to doing stories about real people. While still in the editing bay of his…

3 months ago
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Masters of the Air Takes the Fight for Freedom to the Skies

Masters of the Air co-creator John Orloff loves World War II stories because “the stakes were so high and the…

3 months ago
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True Detective: Night Country Director Issa López on Closing a Flat Circle With Jodie Foster

"Time is a flat circle," Matthew McConaughey told us in the 2014 first season of True Detective. A decade later,…

4 months ago
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The Color Purple Director Blitz Bazawule on Manifesting Sisterhood Through Song

One of the signature lines of Steven Spielberg’s 1985 adaptation of The Color Purple is when Squeak indignantly asks Harpo,…

5 months ago
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George Clooney Tells a Depression-Era Story of Rowing to Survive in The Boys in the Boat

Directing The Boys in the Boat, director George Clooney quickly discovered why it’s hard to make a dramatic film about…

5 months ago
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All the Light We Cannot See Director Shawn Levy on Navigating the World

Shawn Levy quickly fell in love with Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2014 novel, All the Light We Cannot See. But…

6 months ago
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Exorcist: Believer Director David Gordon Green Promises ‘the Ultimate Parental Nightmare’

Reimagining Halloween, writer-director David Gordon Green turned slasher films into an amusement park. He promises his update of The Exorcist,…

7 months ago
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In The Nun 2, Director Michael Chaves Takes Us Demon-Hunting in 1950s France

“There is something so evocative of the darkness. It's a universal fear. The Conjuring films have always leaned into that,”…

8 months ago
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In Golda, Guy Nattiv Promises an Authentic Portrait of Israel’s Iron Lady

Golda director Guy Nattiv was born and raised in Israel and cut his teeth in advertising before transitioning to film.…

9 months ago
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Tom Cruise and Mission Impossible Director Christopher McQuarrie Argue a Lot — About You

Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise argued all the time during the making of Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning — about…

10 months ago