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…

6 years ago
  • Summer 2017

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…

7 years ago
  • Winter 2017

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.…

7 years ago
  • Cinematography
  • Directing
  • Winter 2016

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…

8 years ago
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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…

9 years ago
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  • Directing
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  • Spring 2015

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…

9 years ago