12 Years A Slave

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Needle in a Timestack Writer-Director John Ridley on Two Methods of Writing an Adaptation

John Ridley is brilliant at adaptations: for the 2014 Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave, he turned Solomon Northup’s…

3 years ago
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Kelvin Harrison Jr. Acts Out Activism Through His Role Selections

Kelvin Harrison Jr. starred in three films at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival: Monsters and Men, Assassination Nation, and Monster.…

3 years ago
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Flash Forward: Kelvin Harrison Jr. is Acting Out Activism Through His Role Selections

"I love first-time filmmakers, because I feel like they have more patience with me. We’re going through it together,” says…

6 years ago
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The Adept Adapter: A Primer on Adaptation (i.e. Hacking Someone’s Great Idea and Making it Your Own)

Maybe it’s a childhood favorite you’ve always dreamed of seeing on a big screen, or a recommendation from your mother…

7 years ago
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Edited Yourself into a Hole? Use Arrival Editor Joe Walker’s Tricks for Getting Unstuck

It’s too slow. It’s too fast. It doesn’t resonate or just doesn’t make sense. If something isn’t working in your…

7 years ago
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Best of 2013: 10 Articles to Sum Up the Year in MovieMaker

2014 has been upon us for 10 whole days now. With the benefit of such distance, we at MovieMaker think…

10 years ago
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Review: 12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen

12 Years a Slave Week continues with MovieMaker’s Editor’s Weekend Pick, in which Kelly Leow attempts to express the poignant,…

11 years ago
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Wisdom Wednesday Red Carpet Special: 12 Years a Slave Cast and Director by Kelly Leow

It’s 12 Years a Slave week on Moviemaker.com! To celebrate both the release of one of 2013’s best films, and…

11 years ago
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2013 Toronto International Film Festival Diary, Day Three: Unforgiven, Dallas Buyers Club, Enough Said, The Double by Jeff Meyers

MovieMaker's latest dispatch from the Toronto International Film Festival 2013, courtesy of Jeff Meyers. On Day Three, our intrepid correspondent…

11 years ago
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2013 Toronto International Film Festival Diary, Day Two: Like Father, Like Son, Le Week-end, Labor Day, 12 Years a Slave by Jeff Meyers

Toronto International Film Festival 2013 correspondent Jeff Meyers continues his screening diary in this installment, covering screenings of Like Father,…

11 years ago
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2013 Toronto International Film Festival Diary, Day One: Borgman, Only Lovers Left Alive, Intruders, The Fifth Estate by Jeff Meyers

Moviemaker.com's coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival 2013 continues with correspondent Jeff Meyers' ongoing fest diary. Today he jots…

11 years ago