Articles – Features
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An Education on Education
As a magazine written by, for and about independent moviemakers, film education is an important part of what we do here at MovieMaker. And, as...
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Oscar-Winning Perspectives on Producing
Tony Bill (far right) accepts his Oscar for The Sting from Elizabeth Taylor, with fellow producers Michael and Julia Phillips. When a movie achieves critical...
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Oscar-Winning Perspectives on Producing
Tony Bill (far right) accepts his Oscar for The Sting from Elizabeth Taylor, with fellow producers Michael and Julia Phillips. When a movie achieves critical...
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Conversation with Jim Jarmusch: Cinematic Samurai
An “Eastern” theme, albeit transplanted to urban America, is the sub-text of Jim Jarmusch’s 1999 film Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai. Forest Whitaker...
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Tim Roth’s War Zone
A woman approached independent film distribution veteran Jeff Lipsky at the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival. Actor Tim Roth had just finished a question-and-answer period following...
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John Turturro Romance Cigarettes
With over 60 pictures to his credit, actor-director John Turturro, purveyor of somewhat off-the-wall, idiosyncratic characters drawn largely from the margins of American life, has...
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Cha Cha Cha Changing Hollywood
When Alfonso Cuarón, Alejandro González Iñárritu and Guillermo del Toro announced that they were forming a production company together at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival...
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Patrice Leconte Creates New Definition for Dark Comedy
For a director with more than two dozen films under his belt, along with a fistful of Césars and other awards, it is surprisingly difficult...
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A Month in France With Samuel Fuller
It’s not every day you get a call from one of the most prolific writer-directors in Hollywood’s history. But the call I received early one...
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Alejandro Jodorowsky Remains the Godfather of the Midnight Movie
Since the dawn of home video, the unavailability of two cult classics by Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky—the legendary midnight movie favorite El Topo (1970) and...
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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...
1Inside the Issue: Directing
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...