All posts by Sophie Jonsson
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Ethan Hawke Shows the Power of Empathy and Love in Adopt a Highway
Huddled together in a dingy motel room in a scene from Logan Marshall-Green’s Adopt a Highway, a former prisoner, played by Ethan Hawke, reads Harry...
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How Burning Cane’s Phillip Youmans Became an Award-Winning Moviemaker at 19
Phillip Youmans was a teenage actor working on a low-budget superhero movie when he noticed he wasn’t as interested in his acting as he was...
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Midnight Traveler: a Family’s Phones Document the Refugee Crisis
Midnight Traveler, a new documentary from producers Emelie Coleman Mahdavian and Su Kim, uses one of our most familiar possessions to personalize the refugee crisis: the...
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Book Review: The Filmmaker’s Eye: The Language of the Lens (The Power of Lenses and the Expressive Cinematic Image)
In Gustavo Mercado’s newest book, The Filmmaker’s Eye: The Language of the Lens, the award-winning independent moviemaker turned professor explores the powers and capabilities of...
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Book Review: Independent Female Filmmakers: A Chronicle Through Interviews, Profiles, and Manifestos
With Hollywood in its second year of the #MeToo era, more than ever, films, festivals, and studios are doing their best to include more female...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Taylor Russell on Waves and Why She’s OK With Being an Adult Who Plays High School Students
In director Trey Edward Shults’ Waves, Taylor Russell plays the younger sister of Kelvin Harrison Jr., even though she’s five days older than him in real life. In fact,...
Inside the Issue: Directing
Rob Zombie: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Rob Zombie still can’t let go of some of his past off-screen nightmares. “After I finished Halloween II, I was so beat up by the process that I hated...
Inside the Issue: How To
Edward Norton Walks Us Through Every Part of Making Motherless Brooklyn
Edward Norton is the best possible person to explain each stage of the moviemaking process for his new drama Motherless Brooklyn—he’s the film’s writer, director and lead actor. For...