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Festival Beat: International Auteur Works and Surreal Live Performances at Küstendorf Film and Music Festival 2019
The 12th annual Küstendorf Film and Music Festival opened with a flourish in the form of a 50-piece Moldovan orchestra. That was... -
Festival Beat: Unique Human Stories and an Underdog Ethos Fuel Slamdance on the Proud Park City Fest’s 25th Anniversary
Three bloody marys in, sitting next to my 77-year-old mother on the plane, all I was trying to do was sleep. I... -
How They Did It: Director Joanna Hogg Drew from her Memory to Craft the Sets for The Souvenir
Resurrecting momentous events in her personal history—including the physical spaces where they occurred—deftly-introspective British moviemaker Joanna Hogg created The Souvenir, a semi-autobiographical... -
“Making Movies as Timeless as They Can Be”: Director Ritesh Batra on Evoking Longing in Photograph
In an early scene in Photograph, Ritesh Batra’s return to his hometown Mumbai after his directorial debut The Lunchbox, Gateway of India... -
Production Diaries: Trial by Fire Director Edward Zwick and Crew Started Their Shoot by Lighting an On-Screen Inferno
Based on the George Polk Award-winning New Yorker article of the same name, director Edward Zwick’s Trial by Fire chronicles the wrongful...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Flash Forward: Grace Van Patten Takes a Leap into the Unknown in David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
Many actors will tell you that when you read a great script, you just know. But for Grace Van Patten, it was actually not knowing that...1Inside the Issue: Directing
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 times, arriving at six or seven...Inside the Issue: How To
Journalism Plus: How Hail Satan?, The Brink, and Leaving Neverland Blend Truth-Seeking With Cinematic Storytelling
“Journalism Plus” is how Academy Award-winning moviemaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) characterizes making documentaries. If you’re a documentarian, you may not have a degree or credentials in...8