All posts by Tomáš Miklica
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Jóhann Jóhannsson: A Masterclass on the Collaboration and Reservation of an Award-Winning Score
With a repertoire of work on movies including Arrival, Sicario, mother! and The Theory of Everything, it’s clear Jóhann Jóhannsson is a composer who knows... -
An Artist Archaeologist’s Palette: Ghostly, Decaying Film Stock is Bill Morrison’s Raw Found-Footage Doc Material
As of 2016, the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, which inducts 25 new titles each year “showcasing the range... -
Exiled, Then Exalted: Agnieszka Holland on Communist Censorship, the Holocaust, House of Cards and Spoor
She left Poland twice: first when she went to study at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts... -
Luck of the Draw: What’s the Best, and Cheapest, Way to Figure Out If Your Film Works? Storyboarding
When storyboard artist Kurt van der Basch and director Tom Tykwer first met in 2012, the latter was already an established talent,...
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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...Inside 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...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...