Interviews
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Sundance Dispatch, III: MovieMaker Catches Up with Ben Wheatley of Sightseers and Liz Garcia of The Lifeguard (Video)
This is the third and final installment in MovieMaker’s coverage of the 2013 Sundance Festival in Park City, Utah. In our final episode, MovieMaker sits down...
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Sundance Dispatch, II: MovieMaker Sits Down with Jonathan Groff, Kyle Patrick Alvarez, and Two Egyptian Revolutionaries (Video)
This is the second installment in MovieMaker’s ongoing coverage of the 2013 Sundance Festival in Park City, Utah. This time we sit down with director Kyle...
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Sundance Dispatch, I: MovieMaker Looks Into the Nuclear (and Sexual) Future (Video)
This is the first installment in MovieMaker’s coverage of the 2013 Sundance Festival in Park City, Utah. MovieMaker talks with director Alicia Scherson and star Manuela...
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Dennis Christopher Teams Up with Tarantino for Django Unchained
Best known for his star-making performance in the coming-of-age classic, Breaking Away, Dennis Christopher is the definition of an eclectic actor. He started his film career...
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From Comic to Conman: Dax Shepard Is in the Driver’s Seat for Hit & Run
When asked to recall the moment he realized he wanted to be an actor, Dax Shepard replies, “When it occurred to me that classmates of...
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Going Grassroots: Stephen Gyllenhaal talks local politics and his new movie
The closing night film at this year’s Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), which wraps up its month-long run this weekend, Grassroots is at its heart...
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“Write What You Know”: Michael Connors on Allegiance’s move from short to feature film
Writer/director Michael Connors’ Allegiance (Working Title: Recalled), based on his award-winning 2006 thesis short of the same name, follows Lieutenant Danny Sefton (Seth Gabel, “Fringe,”...
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Think Like a Man Continues to Dominate
New wide releases The Pirates! Band of Misfits, The Five-Year Engagement, Safe and The Raven failed to snatch the number one spot out of the...
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Directing on a Dime: The (Budgetary) Highs and Lows of the Duplass Brothers
Welcome to Directing on a Dime, where indie moviemaker Andy Young provides tips and insight for moviemakers whose budget is more The Blair Witch Project...
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Haskell Wexler: The Last Indie Rebel
So much has been written about Haskell Wexler over the years that I’m going to keep this intro brief. Suffice it to say that Wexler...
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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 are just a handful...
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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 Antarctic waters as...
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 cancer diagnosis hidden...