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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Nicole Holofcener
If one common denominator of Nicole Holofcener’s films is her fumbling protagonists’ neurotic tendencies, her approach...
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Exclusive: French Moviemaker Anne Émond on Adapting the Different Characters Crafted by Notorious Writer Nelly (Video)
French writer Nelly Arcane’s debut novel, Putain, put her on the map as a respected writer documenting...
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NewFilmmakers LA: Jasper Savage, Jessica Hinkson, Jessica Greco, and More
This new installment of our series of NewFilmmakers LA interviews features conversations with moviemakers included above, as well...
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Maternal Intrigue: Ramón Salazar on Constructing Characters for Sunday’s Illness and How Netflix Saved the Film
Engaged in muffled psychological warfare, a mother and the daughter she abandoned over three decades ago...
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We the Animals Director Jeremiah Zagar Discovered His First Narrative Feature in a Bookstore and Shot it on 16mm
Walking through SoHo’s McNally Jackson bookstore back in 2012, director Jeremiah Zagar came across a novel...
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Love Strong: Jordana Spiro on the Young Cast of Night Comes On and the “Luxury of Vulnerability”
A brooding atmosphere envelops every frame of Night Comes On, the debut feature by actor-turned-director Jordana...
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Pieces of Work: Marc Turtletaub on Moving from Producing Indie Darlings to the Director’s Chair for Puzzle
You will know the work of prolific producer and sometime director Marc Turtletaub, but may not...
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Scary Surfing: Director Stephen Susco on Fearing the Internet and How Style Informs Story in Unfriended: Dark Web
In the varying family dynamics within tentpole genre movies, horror has always been the outlier, cannibalistic...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Antoine Fuqua
For Antoine Fuqua, every day as a moviemaker is training day. Since making the leap from...
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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...
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NewFilmmakers LA: Shaz Bennett, Julian Buchan, Diana Cignoni, Meyers Zell, and More
This new installment of our series of NewFilmmakers LA interviews features conversations with moviemakers included above, as well...
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A Proper Collaboration: Joaquin Phoenix and Gus Van Sant’s Big Step Forward in Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot
In the 33 years since he made his first feature, the now classic Mala Noche, director...
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The Mythical West: The Zellner Brothers on Playing with Genre Tropes and Letting Humor Come Intuitively with Damsel
From Tarantino, to the Coen Brothers, to Kelly Reichardt, the western is so entrenched in cinematic history...
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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...
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NewFilmmakers LA: Asia LeMasters, Simon Ryninks, Zak Klein, Lu Han and More
This new installment of our series of NewFilmmakers LA interviews features conversations with moviemakers included above, as well...
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The Hope Gatherer: Debra Granik Finds Beauty in the Difficulties of Life in Leave No Trace
In Debra Granik’s narrative films, women take charge. They try to save their men from the...
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“Our Selfishness is Our Legacy”: 2018 Moviemaker of the Planet, Paul Schrader
It’s not that the planet is in danger. The planet is just fine. If we have...
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Believer: Director Don Argott and Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds on Their Doc in Support of LGBTQ Youth
Molded by his Mormon upbringing, Dan Reynolds, lead singer of the internationally renowned band Imagine Dragons,...
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NewFilmmakers LA: Georgia Fu, Renee Faia, Iggi Ogard, Miguel Almagro and More
This new installment of our series of NewFilmmakers LA interviews features conversations with moviemakers included above, as well...
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NewFilmmakers LA: Alexis Ostrander, Heidi Hartwig, Kimmy Gatewood and More
This new installment of our series of NewFilmmakers LA interviews features conversations with moviemakers included above, as well...
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Child’s Play: Carla Simón on Directing Her Young Stars and Revisiting Her Memories in Summer 1993
Stemming from true events in her childhood, Carla Simón’s Summer 1993 is a delicate, accomplished debut feature...
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Sleuthy Blinders: In Darkness Director Anthony Byrne On Hitchcockian Thrillers, Writing with Partner Natalie Dormer
In his new film In Darkness, Irish director Anthony Byrne takes the cat-and-mouse crime thriller perfected...
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True Crime, New Fiction: Form Follows Fiction’s Function in Bart Layton’s Hybrid Docudrama, American Animals
American Animals is the true story of four students who get lost in a fantasy of...
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Embracing Your Inner Masochist: WIP Your Project Into Shape With Work-in-Progress Screenings
Let’s assume you’ve achieved the impossible: you’ve stressed your way through pre-production on your first feature,...
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