Moviemaking
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When Robert Evans Fought to Make The Godfather Longer
Robert Evans, the producer and Paramount executive who died Monday at 89, left behind a legendary career that he frenetically chronicled in his autobiography The...
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Robert De Niro Shoots Down an Internet Rumor About Scarface: ‘Not True’
Across the internet – from Wikipedia to an Associated Press story to Maxim to Complex– you can find unsourced assertions that Robert De Niro turned down the lead...
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Dolemite Is My Name Has 7 Essential Rules for Moviemakers
(Warning: The following contains spoilers about Eddie Murphy’s Rudy Ray Moore biopic Dolemite Is My Name.) Dolemite Is My Name isn’t just an Eddie Murphy...
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The Aeronauts Director Explains Who Inspired Felicity Jones’ Character
Was Felicity Jones’ The Aeronauts character, Amelia Wren, a real person? No, but The Aeronauts director Tom Harper explained Saturday that Wren was inspired by...
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Martin Scorsese Tells Spike Lee How Donald Trump Influenced The Irishman’s Mobsters
Martin Scorsese told Spike Lee at a Directors Guild of America panel that President Donald Trump was a looming influence on Scorsese’s new film The...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
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...
1Inside the Issue: 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, 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...