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With The Holdovers, Alexander Payne Gets to Make His 1970s Movie

Director Alexander Payne doesn’t just set his new movie in the 1970s — he tried to make The Holdovers exactly…

6 months ago
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In ‘[subtext],’ First-Date Drama Reveals the Perils of Ranking Trauma

In the short film "[subtext]," Olivia Haller plays a woman on a first date, wary of the well-dressed man she's…

7 months ago
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All the Light We Cannot See Director Shawn Levy on Navigating the World

Shawn Levy quickly fell in love with Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2014 novel, All the Light We Cannot See. But…

7 months ago
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Godfrey Reggio Enlists Greta Thunberg and Mike Tyson to Save the World in Once Within a Time

Godfrey Reggio is a master of silent film. The one-time monk-in-training turned filmmaker is known for his QATSI trilogy, best…

7 months ago
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Shooting the Flower Moon: How Rodrigo Prieto Became Martin Scorsese’s Go-To Cinematographer

Rodrigo Prieto is a master of versatility: This year, films he’s shot include Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, a rhapsody in pink,…

7 months ago
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Casting the Killers of the Flower Moon

Killers of the Flower Moon casting director Ellen Lewis knew from the start that Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert DeNiro would…

7 months ago
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7 Indie Filmmakers’ Advice on How to Enjoy the Process of Becoming

“It’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock ‘n’ roll,” goes the 1976 AC/DC song of the…

7 months ago
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In The Nun 2, Director Michael Chaves Takes Us Demon-Hunting in 1950s France

“There is something so evocative of the darkness. It's a universal fear. The Conjuring films have always leaned into that,”…

9 months ago
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Bottoms is a Queer High School Girl Fight Club Movie For Everyone

Bottoms director and co-writer Emma Seligman describes her film as a story of "horny teen girls who start a fight…

9 months ago
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RuPaul’s Drag Race Winner Sasha Colby Shares Her Favorite Stories of Inspiration

Sasha Colby’s interest in movies started at a young age. Long before she won Season 15 of RuPaul’s Drag Race,…

9 months ago