All posts tagged "A24"
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Directing
Ari Aster on Building the Hereditary Haunted Houses From Scratch
March 16, 2020Ari Aster, director of the acclaimed Midsommar and Hereditary, talks in this essay about one of...
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Movie News
Willem Dafoe on Acting: ‘The Challenges Are the Blessings’
February 13, 2020I’m not going to try to sell you on an interview with Willem Dafoe talking about...
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Inside MM - Acting
Taylor Russell on Waves and Why She’s OK With Being an Adult Who Plays High School Students
November 11, 2019In director Trey Edward Shults’ Waves, Taylor Russell plays the younger sister of Kelvin Harrison Jr.,...
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Directing
Skin Writer-Director Guy Nattiv On Turning His Oscar-Winning Short Into a Feature
August 2, 2019In February Israeli-born writer-director Guy Nattiv and his producer-wife Jaime Ray Newman celebrated winning their first...
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How They Did It
How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
July 24, 2019The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played...
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Acting
Flash Forward: Grace Van Patten Takes a Leap into the Unknown in David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
April 24, 2019Many actors will tell you that when you read a great script, you just know. But...
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Festivals
AFI Fest 2018 Wrap: Team MovieMaker‘s Favorites From This Year’s Festival
November 27, 2018In experimenting with all forms of moviemaking, this year’s AFI Fest slate managed to spread the...
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Directing
The Road Less Traveled: To Get Your Indie Made, Treat Your Crew Like Your Family and Put Your Audience Above Yourself
October 24, 2018Soon after my film “Thunder Road” won the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the 2016...
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Directing
How They Did It: Casting Unknowns Was Key to Finding the Laughs and Lived-In Feel of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade
July 10, 2018Before I directed my first film, Eighth Grade, I had heard that 90 percent of directing...
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Directing
“Our Selfishness is Our Legacy”: 2018 Moviemaker of the Planet, Paul Schrader
July 3, 2018It’s not that the planet is in danger. The planet is just fine. If we have...
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Festivals
Crested Butte Film Festival 2017: Strong Shorts, Doc Blocks, and Beer-Slinging Round Out This Rocky Mountain Hub
October 23, 2017I felt a bit jostled as I disembarked from the puddle-jumper out of Denver. The ride...
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Editing
Cuts, Both Ways: Sean Baker’s 11 Rules For Editing Your Own Films
October 3, 2017Moviemaker Sean Baker edits his own (brilliant) films—like the 2017 Cannes hit The Florida Project. Here,...
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Movie News
Independent Spirit Awards 2017: Spirits Stick to Their Essence, Rewarding Moonlight, The Witch and Spa Night
February 26, 2017Breaking with what in recent editions served as a preview to the Academy Awards, the 2017...
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Movie News
Crowd Teasers: Joel Edgerton Threatens Violence From Behind a Sick Beard in It Comes at Night Trailer
February 13, 2017Exactly half of the trailer for Trey Edward Shults’ new thriller It Comes at Night consists...
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Articles
MovieMaker Editor’s Pick: Back to the Future in Computer Chess
August 1, 2013MovieMaker’s Editor’s Weekend Pick is Computer Chess, though we can’t resist sending a shout out to...
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