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How They Did It: Seamless Stunt Work and Smartly Drawn Shot Lists Fueled The Mountaintop Sequence in Midsommar
In Midsommar—my sophomore feature about a codependent couple whose doomed fate leads them to a nightmarish summer solstice celebration among an ancestral Swedish cult called...
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Book Review: Independent Female Filmmakers: A Chronicle Through Interviews, Profiles, and Manifestos
With Hollywood in its second year of the #MeToo era, more than ever, films, festivals, and studios are doing their best to include more female...
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Book Review: The Art of American Screen Acting, 1912-1960
With biographies, documentaries, and podcasts telling the stories of Greta Garbo, James Cagney, and other classic film stars, some have wondered: Why pick up another...
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Crowdfunder Pick: Featuring Will Oldham, Topology of Sirens is Influenced by Rivette and ’90s Point-and-Click Adventures
Crowdfunding has become an invaluable tool for the indie filmmaker seeking funds for the start or completion of a project. And here at MovieMaker, we applaud...
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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 drama which centers...
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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...
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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...