All posts by Stephen Saito
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Ace in the Hole: Aaron Sorkin Plays Molly’s Game
After decades as one of Hollywood’s most lauded screenwriters, Aaron Sorkin makes a play for directing with the high rolling thriller Molly’s Game. On the...
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Spinning Glass: Destin Daniel Cretton’s The Glass Castle Revolves Around a Family Life Both Romantic and Unbearable
For the start of production on The Glass Castle, Destin Daniel Cretton wanted to scale a mountain. One could argue the writer/director had already done...
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Penetrating Images: I Am Not Your Negro Remixes James Baldwin with America’s Tradition of On-Screen Racism
When Raoul Peck was eight, his family fled Haiti for the Congo to escape the tyranny of then-dictator François Duvalier. This was a place he...
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Persistence of Vision: Inside the Making of The Witch, a Horror Classic for the Ages
Growing up amidst the dilapidated colonial farmhouses and graveyards that lined his neck of New Hampshire, Robert Eggers was plagued with nightmares as a child....
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The Human Element: Oscar Isaac and Domhnall Gleeson Talk Ex Machina
In the cerebral sci-fi potboiler Ex Machina, Domhnall Gleeson plays Caleb, a bright young programmer picked, seemingly at random, to spend a week with the...
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Intelligent Artifice: Alex Garland’s Smart, Stylish Ex Machina
Well before Alex Garland became the acclaimed writer of 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Never Let Me Go—some of the most original genre films of...
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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 are just a handful...
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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...