Inside MM – Directing

  • Directing
  • Inside MM - Directing
  • Spring 2016

Back Against the Wall: Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room Lands like a Punch to the Gut

Is there a more overused word in film journalism than "visceral?" The adjective is applied and misapplied with such frequency…

8 years ago
  • Cinematography
  • Inside MM - Directing
  • Summer 2015

Sight, Sound and Fury: The Tribe Gives New Meaning to “Must-See”

“Like magic.” That’s how Ukrainian director Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy describes the intricate, lightning-quick articulations of sign language. It’s also a fitting…

9 years ago
  • Cinematography
  • Directing
  • Inside MM - Directing
  • 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
  • Directing
  • Inside MM - Directing
  • Interviews
  • Winter 2015

Taking History by the Horns: Circumstance, Talent and Willpower Come Together in Selma

The making of movies invites the making of myth. Especially when it turns out well, the story of how a…

9 years ago
  • Interviews

The Making of a Boy: Richard Linklater on his 12-Year Labor of Love, Boyhood

Richard Linklater is no stranger to the workings of time—both as thematic device in his films, and as necessary ingredient…

10 years ago