2021 Complete Guide to Making Movies

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Dune Production Designer Patrice Vermette on Creating the Film’s Expansive Juxtaposed Worlds

Dune production designer Patrice Vermette is known for his collaborations with fellow Canadian director Denis Villeneuve which includes Enemy, Prisoners,…

3 years ago
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No Time to Die Cinematographer Linus Sandgren on Finding the Soul of James Bond

In this feature, No Time to Die cinematographer Linus Sandgren explains how he and director Cary Joji Fukunaga honor the…

3 years ago
  • Interviews

How Sound of Metal Director Darius Marder and Sound Supervisor Nicolas Becker Captured the Pain of a Metal Musician Going Deaf

Sound of Metal is nominated for six Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Riz Ahmed), Best Supporting Actor (Paul Raci),…

3 years ago
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Aaron Sorkin Had One Rule For The Trial of the Chicago 7

On a Saturday morning in 2006, Aaron Sorkin met with Steven Spielberg and said he’d be delighted to write a…

3 years ago
  • Interviews

How Sound of Metal Director Darius Marder and Sound Supervisor Nicolas Becker Captured the Pain of a Metal Musician Going Deaf

Sound of Metal is nominated for six Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Riz Ahmed), Best Supporting Actor (Paul Raci),…

3 years ago
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Aaron Sorkin Had One Rule For The Trial of the Chicago 7

The Trial of the Chicago 7 is nominated for is nominated for six Oscars, including for Best Picture, Best Supporting…

3 years ago
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Synchronic Co-Directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead on Making the Film, From Beginning to End

Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead are the co-directors of the genre-bending Synchronic, which is currently the top film on Netflix and stars…

3 years ago
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Happiest Season Director Clea DuVall Used to Focus Too Much on the Kind Of Director She Didn’t Want to Be

Happiest Season stars Mackenzie Davis as a woman who brings her girlfriend, played by Kristen Stewart, home for the holidays…

3 years ago
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Sean Durkin Found a Positive Way to Write. He Didn’t Use It For The Nest

Writer-director Sean Durkin returns to feature directing with The Nest, his follow up to 2011's Martha Marcy May Marlene. In…

3 years ago
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The AD of the Pandemic Film Don’t Fear on the COVID-19 Protocols Here to Stay

During the pandemic, producer Jon C. Scheide AD'd the pandemic film Don't Fear, by Deon Taylor. The production implemented a…

3 years ago
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Own Your IP: How Codie Elaine and Tommy Oliver Made Black Love, and Kept 100 Percent Ownership

Codie Elaine and Tommy Oliver are the creators of Black Love. In this feature, Codie Elaine goes over how the…

3 years ago
  • Film Schools by the Beach

The World’s Best Film Schools by the Beach, Presented by New York Film Academy Australia

Maybe you're thinking about film school. And maybe, like us, you spend a preposterous amount of time fantasizing about all…

3 years ago
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Can Fulldome Be the Next IMAX? We Go Inside the Large-Scale Format

Many of us are a long way from feeling comfortable in a movie theater. But when we do go back,…

3 years ago
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To Make Greyhound, Director Aaron Schneider Merged The Practical World and an Imagined One

In this feature, Greyhound director Aaron Schneider goes over how essential it was for him to make a robust battle…

3 years ago
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Meet Our World’s Best Genre Festivals Panel

1BR producer Alok Mishra tapped Heather Buckley to help assemble these panelists to vote on the 50 Best Genre Festivals in the…

4 years ago
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Synchronic Co-Directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead on Screenwriting, Development, Production, Post, and Distribution

Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead are the co-directors of the genre-bending Synchronic, which stars Anthony Mackie and Jamies Dornan as…

4 years ago
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On the Rocks Cinematographer Philippe Le Sourd Worked to Understand Sofia Coppola’s Vision — Then Embraced Questions

Cinematographer Philippe Le Sourd reunited with writer-director Sofia Coppola for On the Rocks, which is Coppola's first film set in…

4 years ago
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Luca Marinelli and Pietro Marcello Formed a Transcendent Actor-Director Bond on Martin Eden

For some scenes of Martin Eden, their Italian adaptation of a Jack London novel about a hardworking sailor with literary…

4 years ago
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‘You’re Not the King of Dirk’: Boogie Nights and The Promise of Paul Thomas Anderson (Book Excerpt)

In his next film, Paul Thomas Anderson will return to the 1970s San Fernando Valley setting of his 1997 breakthrough,…

4 years ago
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Time Director Garrett Bradley: Documentaries Need to Do More Than Watch

Time tracks the two-decade long struggle of Fox Rich and her family to free her husband, Rob, from prison. Shot…

4 years ago
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Forty-Year-Old Version Moviemaker Radha Blank: You Don’t Have to Write at Four in the Morning

Radha Blank wrote, directed, produced and stars in The Forty-Year-Old Version, a semi-autobiographical film in which she plays a struggling…

4 years ago
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Kirsten Johnson Made Dick Johnson Is Dead To Imagine the Unimaginable

Kirsten Johnson is the award-winning moviemaker and cinematographer behind films like Cameraperson, Citizenfour, and The Oath. In the following feature…

4 years ago