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Book Review: I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
Though it’s taken for granted that television has a big seat at the table in the...
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Eye Piece: Monos DP Jasper Wolf Journeyed Into the Heart of a Colombian Jungle Never Before Captured on Film
Director Alejandro Landes and I envisioned Monos as a subjective war fable. We wanted to create...
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Book Review: The Filmmaker’s Eye: The Language of the Lens (The Power of Lenses and the Expressive Cinematic Image)
In Gustavo Mercado’s newest book, The Filmmaker’s Eye: The Language of the Lens, the award-winning independent...
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Indie Law: Our Entertainment Law Expert Pulls Your Legal Questions From The MM Mailbag
For this edition of Indie Law, we asked readers to send us their burning legal questions...
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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...
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Hollywood Ending: Quentin Tarantino on Making Movies, Finding Love, and Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood
The first time Quentin Tarantino and I connect, he offers me an apology. “I’m not trying...
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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...
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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...
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How They Did It: Seamless Stunt Work and Smartly Drawn Shot Lists Fueled The Mountaintop Sequence in Midsommar
In Midsommar — my sophomore feature about a codependent couple whose doomed fate leads them to...
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What’s In Your Kit? Lightweight Cameras and Compact Cleavers in The Art of Self-Defense with DP Michael Ragen
Michael Ragen’s equipment arsenal for The Art of Self-Defense shows that a DP’s best defense is a...
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