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How Tuscaloosa Director Philip Harder Turned Minnesota Into 1970s Alabama
Tuscaloosa director Philip Harder explains in this essay how he shot Tuscaloosa, a drama set in...
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Ari Aster on Building the Hereditary Haunted Houses From Scratch
Ari Aster, director of the acclaimed Midsommar and Hereditary, talks in this essay about one of...
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Edward Norton: No One Works Better With Composers Than Wes Anderson
Edward Norton says most film scores are introduced to the moviemaking process much too late. The...
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Kasi Lemmons: Harriet Is ‘a Savior Movie and Not a Slavery Movie’
Kasi Lemmons didn’t want her new film Harriet to focus on the physical violence of slavery....
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7 Righteous Gemstones: Coen Brothers Parallels for Truly Devoted Fans
Danny McBride’s The Righteous Gemstones feels almost as indebted to the Coen Brothers as it does to...
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How The Riot Act Director Devon Parks Recreate Life in Another Century
Nearly 120 years ago, the zestful border town of Van Buren, Arkansas found its streets lined...
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How to Develop the Story Beats in Your Screenplay
Before we discuss how to develop story beats in a screenplay, let’s start with a cold...
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Vita & Virginia: Director Chanya Button Discusses Making Bold Visual and Story Choices In Her Exploration of Queer Desire
In 1924, while crossing the Tre Croci pass in the Dolomite Mountains of Northern Italy, the...
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NewFilmmakers LA: Maha Al Saati, Mary Lyn Chambers, Ludovica Isidori, David Plasencia, and More
The latest installment of our series of NewFilmmakers LA interviews features conversations about movies directed by the above...
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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...
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Kings of Beer Director Sean Mullin On Maintaining Artistic Integrity While Working on Branded Content
Kings of Beer follows six of Budweiser’s top brewmasters. The diverse cast of characters and their...
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Zhuhai Caper: The Long Gone Wild Team Almost Landed in a Chinese Gulag While Filming Undercover
You may remember Ric O’Barry from the Oscar-winning documentary, The Cove, in which he and a...
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Skin Writer-Director Guy Nattiv On Turning His Oscar-Winning Short Into a Feature
In February Israeli-born writer-director Guy Nattiv and his producer-wife Jaime Ray Newman celebrated winning their first...
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Landing the Punch: Riley Stearns on Carefully Crafted Satire and Establishing Tone in The Art of Self-Defense
Although only one requires a cool costume with colorful belt options, karate and satire have a...
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Hollywood Ending: Quentin Tarantino on Making Movies, Finding Love, and Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood
The first time Quentin Tarantino and I connect, he offers me an apology. “I’m not trying...
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How They Did It: Learning a New Culture and Creating Painterly Visuals to Make Despite Everything
The biggest challenge of working on my seventh feature film as a director was to do...
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Road-Tripping: Director Sebastian Schipper on Why Shooting Roads Chronologically Was His Film’s Best Path Forward
Rarely is a film shot chronologically. But then Roads is a unique feature. Inspired by children’s...
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Framing John DeLorean: Directors Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce Talk Blending Archival Footage With Reenactments
A fleet of sleek, gull-wing DMC-12 DeLoreans revved up to New York’s SVA Theater for the...
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Stefon Bristol’s See You Yesterday Melds Time Travel and the Harsh Realities of African-American Life Seamlessly
Stefon Bristol’s See You Yesterday is full of surprises. Produced by Spike Lee, Bristol’s film takes...
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A Talk on the Wilde Side: Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart, Her New Home Behind the Camera, and Her Plans to Save the World
A young mother whose eight-year-old son was abducted a year earlier awakens in the middle of the...
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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...
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