Inside MM – Directing

Inside MM – Directing

  • Movie News

Rob Zombie: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker

Rob Zombie still can't let go of some of his past off-screen nightmares. "After I finished Halloween II, I was…

4 years ago
  • Inside MM - 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,…

5 years ago
  • Movie News

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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Success in Succession: Matteo Garrone Shot Dogman Entirely in Sequence to Put Viewers in His Character’s Shoes

I wrote the script for my new film, Dogman, 12 years ago, and during those years I changed it many…

5 years ago
  • Winter 2019

The 2019 MovieMaker Sundance Survey: Eleven Sundance-Selected Films, and Their Mountain-Bound Makers

The 35th Sundance Film Festival received a record-breaking 14,000-plus submissions, with 4,000-plus feature-length films among them. Of the 112 features selected, 45…

5 years ago
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MovieMaker Melee: 1985 and Tyrel Writer-Directors Yen Tan and Sebastián Silva Debate Their Processes’ Pros and Cons

To ring in the first installment of our new MovieMaker Melee debate series, we invited two indie moviemakers with films releasing…

6 years ago
  • Directing

Think Like A Photographer: Generation Wealth’s Lauren Greenfield Shares How Still Techniques Make Better Movies

The biggest change I experienced when I went from making pictures to making films was the sense of an arc—of…

6 years ago
  • Directing

Of Bad Apes and Twisted Revenge: Matt Reeves, Steve Zahn, Weta Digital and Others on War for the Planet of the Apes

Actor Steve Zahn—known for his roles in That Thing You Do, Riding in Cars With Boys, and Dallas Buyers Club—once…

7 years ago
  • Directing

On Press, and Pressing On: While Promoting A Ghost Story, David Lowery Takes Stock of Life as an Indie Auteur

1. I’m a big fan of routines. I don’t like sticking to them, or setting my clock by them, but…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

Welcome to the Doghouse: With Wiener-Dog, the Idiosyncratic Todd Solondz is Sticking to Old Tricks

Todd Solondz is a polarizing moviemaker, to be sure, but no one can deny that the man has a distinctive…

8 years ago