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How I Fought a Life-or-Death Battle for False Colors, the ‘Budget Bourne’ of My Dreams
I think of my “ultra-indie” action adventure film False Colors as a kind of “budget Bourne,”...
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The Rental Trailer: Dave Franco Directorial Debut Sends Sends Alison Brie and Dan Stevens on a Chilly Couple’s Retreat
The new trailer for The Rental, the terrific directorial debut for Dave Franco, finds a couple...
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Da 5 Bloods and Cross-Generational Trauma (Low Key Podcast)
Today’s episode of the Low Key podcast covers the Spike Lee film Da 5 Bloods, which follows...
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Skin Deep: The Battle Over Morgellons Director Pi Ware on Documentary vs. Reality TV
Authenticity in Interviews A mainstay of non-fiction is the interview. In reality TV you’re mining for...
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Lost Transmissions Director Katharine O’Brien on the Film’s Real Inspiration
Simon Pegg and Juno Temple star in Lost Transmissions, written by Katharine O’Brien, who is also...
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The Last Black Man in San Francisco: Joe Talbot Injects His Changing Home City’s History Into His Feature Debut
Thora Birch shows up for a second at the end of The Last Black Man in...
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How Tuscaloosa Director Philip Harder Turned Minnesota Into 1970s Alabama
Tuscaloosa director Philip Harder explains in this essay how he shot Tuscaloosa, a drama set in...
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Ari Aster on Building the Hereditary Haunted Houses From Scratch
Ari Aster, director of the acclaimed Midsommar and Hereditary, talks in this essay about one of...
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Edward Norton: No One Works Better With Composers Than Wes Anderson
Edward Norton says most film scores are introduced to the moviemaking process much too late. The...
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Kasi Lemmons: Harriet Is ‘a Savior Movie and Not a Slavery Movie’
Kasi Lemmons didn’t want her new film Harriet to focus on the physical violence of slavery....
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7 Righteous Gemstones: Coen Brothers Parallels for Truly Devoted Fans
Southern Gothic: Danny McBride is from Georgia. Joel and Ethan Coen grew up in Minnesota. Yet...
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How The Riot Act Director Devon Parks Recreate Life in Another Century
Nearly 120 years ago, the zestful border town of Van Buren, Arkansas found its streets lined...
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How to Develop the Story Beats in Your Screenplay
Before we discuss how to develop story beats in a screenplay, let’s start with a cold...
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Vita & Virginia: Director Chanya Button Discusses Making Bold Visual and Story Choices In Her Exploration of Queer Desire
In 1924, while crossing the Tre Croci pass in the Dolomite Mountains of Northern Italy, the...
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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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Kings of Beer Director Sean Mullin On Maintaining Artistic Integrity While Working on Branded Content
Kings of Beer follows six of Budweiser’s top brewmasters. The diverse cast of characters and their...
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Zhuhai Caper: The Long Gone Wild Team Almost Landed in a Chinese Gulag While Filming Undercover
You may remember Ric O’Barry from the Oscar-winning documentary, The Cove, in which he and a...
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Skin Writer-Director Guy Nattiv On Turning His Oscar-Winning Short Into a Feature
In February Israeli-born writer-director Guy Nattiv and his producer-wife Jaime Ray Newman celebrated winning their first...
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Landing the Punch: Riley Stearns on Carefully Crafted Satire and Establishing Tone in The Art of Self-Defense
Although only one requires a cool costume with colorful belt options, karate and satire have a...
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