Articles – Features
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Spike Lee Plays Mentor to Babelgum Online Film Festival
Truthfully, the importance of a film festival begins with the hype surrounding it, and there are few better ways, at least in the film industry,...
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Chris Tellefsen’s New York Story
In 1988, early in my career, I received a feature script that excited and intrigued me. It was an odd, timeless story about New York...
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Todd Haynes Takes on Bob Dylan
After the enormous success of both Ray and Walk the Line, director Todd Haynes (Safe, Far From Heaven) shouldn’t have had any trouble making his...
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Jennifer and Suzanne Todd’s Sister Act
It’s an old and tired story: Hollywood as a testosterone-driven industry, dominated by power-mad male executives and underscored by boys’ club misogyny. But the film...
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Zach Helm’s World of Wonder
Zach Helm’s life may not be stranger than fiction, but it is sweeter than a fairytale. Plucked out of the playwriting scene in Chicago in...
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Horror Film Festivals Rise from the Grave
Screamfest horror film festival director Rachel Belofksy says she didn’t grow up loving scary movies. “As a little girl, I was terrified of everything,” she...
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Halloween, Too
Fifteen years ago he was a popular shock rocker, touring the country with the likes of Ozzy Osbourne and occasionally directing award-winning music videos. So...
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David Levien & Brian Koppelman: Ocean’s Two
Brian Koppelman and David Levien are among the movie business’ most sought-after screenwriters. If all falls into place, they’ll soon be turning their attention to...
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David Levien & Brian Koppelman: Ocean’s Two
Brian Koppelman and David Levien are among the movie business’ most sought-after screenwriters. If all falls into place, they’ll soon be turning their attention to...
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The Robert Rodriguez Effect
When it comes to getting an education in film, there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all option. But apparently the same can’t be said...
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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...