Articles – Features
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The Duke
The Duke Remembering the big screen’s straighest shooter by Joe Leydon A man can die, but his movies will always remain in the present tense....
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The Duke
The Duke Remembering the big screen’s straighest shooter by Joe Leydon A man can die, but his movies will always remain in the present tense....
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From YouTube to Borat: The Jackass Generation
Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Paul Soter, Steve Lemme and Erik Stolhanske in Beerfest (2006). I don’t remember how or why I got there, but the...
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Top 10 Cities to Make Movies 2007
In a 1982 interview with American Heritage magazine, “legendary moviemaker”John Huston was asked to explain what he meant when he referred to “the basic grammar...
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Vancouver Film School Scholarship Competition
Today it’s easy to buy a digital camcorder, make a short film in one take, post it on YouTube in one afternoon and easily find...
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Vancouver Film School Scholarship Competition
Today it’s easy to buy a digital camcorder, make a short film in one take, post it on YouTube in one afternoon and easily find...
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David Lynch’s Empire
The only predictable thing about David Lynch is that he is always looking to surprise us. Since 2001’s Mulholland Drive, Lynch, 60, has been seeking...
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David Lynch’s Empire
The only predictable thing about David Lynch is that he is always looking to surprise us. Since 2001’s Mulholland Drive, Lynch, 60, has been seeking...
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Dern on Lynch
On the meaning of Inland Empire: We know is a non-conformist and we know he lives in the world of the abstract and we...
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Laura Dern on David Lynch
On the meaning of Inland Empire: We know is a non-conformist and we know he lives in the world of the abstract and we...
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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...