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Dasha Nekrasova Channels Knack for Provocation Into The Scary of Sixty-First

When Jeffrey Epstein died on the morning of August 10, 2019, Dasha Nekrasova visited the sites he left behind: Manhattan’s…

2 years ago
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Regina King Breaks Through (Again) With One Night in Miami, Her Directorial Debut

When Regina King was growing up in Los Angeles, her family ate lots of vegetables. Friends who came to her…

3 years ago
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Documentary Grant Writing: Producer and Director Alysa Nahmias On All You Need to Know

Alysa Nahmias is a director and producer whose films include the documentaries The New Bauhaus and Unfinished Spaces. She is also the founder…

4 years ago
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How to Get Your Film Into Festivals: MovieMaker’s Screener Survey

For a quarter-century now, MovieMaker has been the leading publication for working independent filmmakers. MM’s editorial coverage of the festival…

4 years ago
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Hollywood Ending: Quentin Tarantino on Making Movies, Finding Love, and Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood

The first time Quentin Tarantino and I connect, he offers me an apology. "I'm not trying to be flaky," he…

5 years ago
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How They Did It: Seamless Stunt Work and Smartly Drawn Shot Lists Fueled The Mountaintop Sequence in Midsommar

In Midsommar — my sophomore feature about a codependent couple whose doomed fate leads them to a nightmarish summer solstice…

5 years ago
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The 25 Most Influential Directors of All Time, From Scorsese to Kubrick

Martin Scorsese. Stanley Kubrick. Alfred Hitchcock. As time passes, new models inevitably emerge. In art, politics and history, each generation…

22 years ago