All posts by Sophie Jonsson
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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
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 are just a handful...
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 Antarctic waters as...
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 cancer diagnosis hidden...