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Foreign Contenders: Rahmatou Keïta on Financing Niger’s The Wedding Ring Entirely with African Funds

Financially limited, but overflowing with cultural richness, African cinema is less frequently present at international festivals than productions from most…

5 years ago
  • Directing

Where The Movie Came to Life: How Editor Bob Murawski Brought The Other Side of the Wind Back from the Dead

This Fall, following a tour of the prestigious festival circuit, Orson Welles' long lost Hollywood satire The Other Side of…

5 years ago
  • Cinematography

Discover Cinematographer Roger Deakins’ Most Trusted and True Visual Techniques (Video)

One of the most celebrated cinematographers in filmmaking, Roger Deakins has, until last night, been always the bridesmaid and never…

6 years ago
  • Directing

Getting to the Heart of Lady Bird: What Makes Greta Gerwig’s Debut Tick

In the pantheon of mother-daughter movies, it might seem like a simplistic statement to say that what makes Greta Gerwig’s…

6 years ago
  • Directing

The Art of Fear: How Christopher Nolan Uses Perspective to Express Fear in Dunkirk

Garnering Christopher Nolan his very first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director, Dunkirk represents the apex of his…

6 years ago
  • Directing

A Living Thing: How Paul Thomas Anderson Makes Emotions Visual

With Phantom Thread giving Paul Thomas Anderson his first Best Director nomination since 2007, the American auteur has scored his biggest success…

6 years ago
  • Movie News

Logan Lucky: How Interactions Between Genres Led to an Oscar Nomination for James Mangold’s Superhero Film

In this video essay, Evan Puschak of Nerdwriter seeks to examine the many different ways by which genre conventions can…

6 years ago
  • Festivals

Festival Beat: Boulder International Film Festival 2015

After weeks of on-and-off again snow, the sun finally emerged, just in time for the Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF),…

9 years ago
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  • Interviews

Truth and Consequences: Oscar-Winning Director Denys Arcand Has An Eye for Beauty

A life-long history student and keen observer of cultural norms and attitudes, Canadian filmmaker Denys Arcand has always had an…

9 years ago
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  • Interviews
  • Things Learned

Things I’ve Learned: Paul Haggis

Today, on Wisdom Wednesday, Academy Award-winning writer/director Paul Haggis stopped by to share a whopping 55 critical moviemaking lessons he's…

10 years ago
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  • Articles - Acting
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Prisoners and Acting: An Interview with Melissa Leo

MovieMaker spoke to Melissa Leo, one of 2013's hardest-working actresses (she turned in performances in six of the year's releases,…

10 years ago
  • Articles - Exhibition
  • Articles - Festival Beat
  • Articles - Festivals
  • Movie News

Nairobi Half Life: Endorsed by the Kenyan Embassy

Washington, D.C.—This morning, the Embassy of Kenya in the U.S. announced its support for Nairobi Half Life, a Kenyan film…

11 years ago
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  • Articles - Locations

Interiors Journal: Haneke’s Amour by Interiors Journal

Every month, Interiors Journal dissects the floorplan of a film set to investigate the relationship between space and action. This…

11 years ago