Winter 2016

Winter 2016 Issue

  • Winter 2016

How They Did It: Men Go to Battle Pulled off “DIY Period Piece” by Hacking a Reenactment

Early in the process of research for Men Go to Battle, my co-writer and producer Kate Lyn Sheil and I…

8 years ago
  • Winter 2016

Listen and Learn: Five Essential Podcasts to Augment Your Movie Education

What if, when you’re stuck in traffic, instead of listening to Adele’s “Hello” for the thousandth time, you could be…

8 years ago
  • Winter 2016

Close Encounters: Michael Shannon, Jeff Nichols and Their Big-Canvas Sci-Fi Chase Movie Midnight Special

Michael Shannon is coming off a remarkable year. 2015 saw him in three wildly different fall releases: Peter Sollett’s lesbian…

8 years ago
  • Winter 2016

MovieMaker’s Guide to Smartphone Moviemaking: eBook Available

Announcing MovieMaker's Guide to Smartphone Moviemaking! Available for purchase from Amazon, this is an eight-part special, adapted from our Winter…

8 years ago
  • Things Learned
  • Winter 2016

Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Susanne Bier

From her breakout amongst the galvanized Dogme 95 movement of the ’90s and ’00s to the international acclaim and ambition…

8 years ago
  • Cinematography
  • Directing
  • Winter 2016

Persistence of Vision: Inside the Making of The Witch, a Horror Classic for the Ages

Growing up amidst the dilapidated colonial farmhouses and graveyards that lined his neck of New Hampshire, Robert Eggers was plagued…

8 years ago
  • Cinematography
  • Eye Piece
  • Winter 2016

Eye Piece: Colombian Stunner Embrace of the Serpent Renders the Amazon in Ghostly Silver

When director Ciro Guerra and producer Cristina Gallego gave me the script for Embrace of the Serpent, I took my…

8 years ago
  • Interviews
  • Winter 2016

Flash Forward: In A War, Danish Thespian Pilou Asbæk Blows Up

“We hated each other,” says Danish actor Johan Phlip “Pilou” Asbæk of director Tobias Lindholm. Why? “Because he was a…

8 years ago
  • Whats in Your Kit

What’s in Your Kit?, Sundance Edition: Cinematographer John Behrens (Resilience)

For our series What’s in Your Kit, we ask a range of working cinematographers to share the gear they can’t…

8 years ago
  • Directing
  • Producing
  • Winter 2016

Box-Office Prophets: The Rise of the Faith-Based Film Industry

Call them what you will. “Christian,” or “faith-based” or “inspirational/spiritual/ministry” films are good business in 2016. Major studios and independent…

8 years ago