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Full Circle: Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead Cement Their Indie Horror Mastery With UFO Cult Chiller The Endless
Ever relive a moment over and over again until you realize you’re in a UFO-obsessed death cult? I’ve been asking around at... -
“Time to Dream:” Find Inspiration in Daily Life with Apichatpong Weerasethakul in this New Doc
Within the first minute of A.W.: A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a fiery crab emerges from a small mound of wet sand.... -
Austin Film Festival 2017: Inside the City Limits, the 24-Year-Old Fest Grows in Stature Each Year
On May of 2013, after an intense “writing” day of accomplishing nothing but staring blankly at my computer screen and hating myself... -
Dallas: Incentives Paying Off for Moviemakers
The Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area is fast becoming one of the largest in the country, and its film scene is bustling with... -
Festival Beat: Washington West Film Festival 2017
This D.C. festival is filled with films that provoke both reaction and change. “Story can change the world” is Washington West’s motto—it’s... -
My Own Private Hawaii: How a Native Hawaiian Shot Her Film at a Tough Private Prison in the Arizona Desert
I wasn’t trying to make a film, but perhaps that’s how most good things cross your path: You’re just not looking. In... -
Festival Wrap: Island Casual Mixes with Serious Cinema Aesthetic at Hawaii International Festival 2017
The Hawaii International Film Festival turned 37 in November, and along with its typically top-notch programming and famous hospitality, it also somehow... -
Exclusive: Pamela Adlon Won’t Let Michael Kelly Get All Square That Easy (Video)
John Zbikowski (Michael Kelly) is a small town bookie having a hard time collecting on outstanding debts. After a one night stand... -
Logan Lucky: How Interactions Between Genres Led to an Oscar Nomination for James Mangold’s Superhero Film
In this video essay, Evan Puschak of Nerdwriter seeks to examine the many different ways by which genre conventions can be examined,... -
Five Questions About An Oscar-Nominated Short: Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer’s “Revolting Rhymes”
Animated adaptations of British author Roald Dahl’s children’s fiction include two highly regarded works: Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox and Henry Selick’s...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Sydney on the Map: To Land Breakout Roles, Sydney Sweeney Draws Her Own Maps of the Characters She Inhabits
A reverent initiate of a patriarchal regime; a disturbed young psychiatric hospital ward; a sexually questioning teen with a flair for the dramatic; a mysterious denizen...1Inside the Issue: Directing
Think Like A Photographer: Generation Wealth’s Lauren Greenfield Shares How Still Techniques Make Better Movies
The biggest change I experienced when I went from making pictures to making films was the sense of an arc—of creating a story over time, and...Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: Casting Unknowns Was Key to Finding the Laughs and Lived-In Feel of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade
Before I directed my first film, Eighth Grade, I had heard that 90 percent of directing is casting. I’m sure there are other directors who weigh...2