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Milwaukee Film Festival 2017: From Star Vehicles to Indie Circuit Darlings
If you’re thinking of beer every time you mention Milwaukee, you’re not the only one. This city has a long history going back over 150...
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The Perfect Cocktail: Blue Whiskey Independent Film Festival
Blue Whiskey Independent Film Festival (BWiFF) was born to be original. The festival’s name may lead you to imagine a strangely colored alcoholic beverage one...
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Festival Spotlight Friday: San Francisco Frozen Film Festival is Hella Chill
No one can say that the San Francisco Frozen Film Festival (SFFFF) is short on spirit. The festival aims to broaden its community’s film scene...
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Festival Spotlight Friday: Los Angeles Film Festival Celebrates 19th Year
The Los Angeles Film Festival began with a bang June 13 and runs through this Sunday, June 23rd Our new Festival Spotlight Friday series threads...
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Coachella: Triumphs, failures, and lessons from the inaugural AMFM Fest
The inaugural AMFM Fest, which shares a valley with the Coachella Art and Music Festival, may have been too ambitious. But the future is bright....
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Bringing Film to Coachella: AMFM Fest aims to bring film, art, and more music to the Coachella Valley
AMFM Fest, the new acronymic festival in the Coachella Valley, might just be aiming to overthrow that other four-letter film and music event in Austin....
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Screenin’ in the Rain: Notes on Cannes 2013, Part I
It wasn’t until the midpoint of a drizzlier and gustier than usual edition of the Cannes Film Festival that the red carpets seemed to dry—or...
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If Only I Could Cannes:
9 Cannes premieres to look out for (that I won’t get to see till they come to New York)Festival de Cannes is upon us. Like me, you wish you were there. Or unlike me, you are there, which raises the question of why...
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Newfilmmakers Los Angeles: LA’s only monthly film festival moves to the AT&T Center
NewFilmmakers Los Angeles — LA’s only monthly film festival — has relocated its screening series from the Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood to the AT&T...
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Nairobi Half Life: Endorsed by the Kenyan Embassy
Washington, D.C.—This morning, the Embassy of Kenya in the U.S. announced its support for Nairobi Half Life, a Kenyan film screening today as part of...
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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...
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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 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...