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Emerald Fennell: Promising Young Woman Is Like a Great First Date Gone Bad
Promising Young Woman is nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director (Emerald Fennell), Best...
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The Syrian Regime Disappeared Their Friend — the Film Ayouni Remembers Him
Yasmin Fedda and Eric Steuer first met when their mutual friend, Bassel Khartibal, disappeared in Syria...
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Let’s Discuss Concrete Cowboy, With Idris Elba as a Philly Horseman
Concrete Cowboy is a coming-of-age film about teenager Cole who comes across a love for the...
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400,000 Children Are Starving in Yemen. The People to Blame Want to Hide It From You
When we first meet 6-year-old Abeer Otham Thaneb, one of the two main children portrayed in...
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How Mank Production Designer Don Burt Recreated Hearst Castle Without Visiting It
Production designer Don Burt’s biggest challenge in David Fincher’s Mank was recreating the opulent home of...
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Should You Move to Mississippi?
Twenty-six miles of white sand beaches. A cinematic legacy dating to 1914. Stately homes you can...
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John Singleton Gave Coming 2 America Director Craig Brewer His Big Break — and Told Him to Always ‘Hire Some Black People’
John Singleton, the late director of Boyz n the Hood, gave Craig Brewer his first big...
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David Shields Wrote the Book on Interviews. Nick Toti Made the Movie
David Shields has given hundreds of interviews to promote his 22 books on everything from race...
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The World to Come Producer-Star Casey Affleck: ‘If You Write More Drafts, the Writing Gets Better’
Casey Affleck, producer and co-star of The World to Come, has some thoughts on screenwriting that...
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Portland Film Festival’s Joshua Leake on Innovating Through the Pandemic — and Drawing Ideas From Other Festivals
Portland Film Festival co-founder Joshua Leake is happy to share credit. Point to any of the...
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The Making of Roar: Lions and Tigers and Stitches, Oh My!
Roar is the story of a family — including Tippi Hedren and real-life daughter Melanie...
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Wolfman’s Got Nards: The Monster Squad Deep-Dive a Very Specific Audience Was Dying For
Monster Squad, about a squad of monster-busting kids, was not a hit upon its release in 1987....
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How Vanessa Kirby Breaking Her Ankle Altered Her The World to Come Performance
Vanessa Kirby broke her ankle on the first shooting day of The World to Come, and...
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The World to Come: Casey Affleck, Katherine Waterston and Mona Fastvold on Their Pioneer Romance
Shot on 16mm in 24 days in the Carpathian Mountains in Romania, The World to Come...
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People vs. Larry Flynt Writers Say Flynt’s Own Lawsuit Gave Them the Legal Right to Tell His Story
When The People vs. Larry Flynt writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski were asked by studio...
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Gary Oldman Doesn’t Think Citizen Kane Is the Best Movie Ever — Or Even the Best Orson Welles Movie
Gary Oldman stars in Mank as Herman J. Mankiewicz, the legendary Hollywood screenwriter whose crowning achievement was...
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Charlotte Kirk and Neil Marshall Want to Be Judged by Their Work — Starting With The Reckoning
If you’ve read anything about Charlotte Kirk and Neil Marshall in the last two years, it’s...
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Palmer Director Fisher Stevens Got Paper Moon Director Peter Bogdanovich’s Advice on Directing Kids
Palmer, the new film from Fisher Stevens, hangs completely on the performances of its two leads: Justin...
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‘Southland Tales Will Always Be My Favorite’: Richard Kelly on His Divisive Donnie Darko Follow-Up, Casting The Rock, and Plans for a Six-Hour Version
Five years after his 2001 breakthrough Donnie Darko, Richard Kelly risked making the epic-scale followup Southland...
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Baby God: Meet the Vegas Fertility Doc Who Secretly Used His Own Sperm on Countless Women
Baby God chronicles how Las Vegas fertility doctor Quincy Fortier impregnated patients with his own sperm,...
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Soul: An Animated Film About a Mid-Life Crisis
Soul intriguingly disguises an existential crisis for adults as kids’ entertainment. It’s like many Pixar projects that...
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