John Mulaney's hilariously unnecessary explanation of the entire plot of Field of Dreams while announcing the Oscar winner for Best…
Oppenheimer won the Oscar for Best Picture at the 96th Academy Awards Sunday night while the film's writer-director Christopher Nolan,…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWnh2FjYdpo Jimmy Kimmel was in fine form during his opening monologue at the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday. Returning for…
The modern film industry has continuously experienced steady growth since the kinetoscope was successfully demonstrated in the 19th century. Today,…
We talk with Richard Linklater about Apollo 10½, perhaps the most Richard Linklater of all Richard Linklater movies; Oscars producer…
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Dune director Denis Villeneuve has a simple response to MovieMaker's prompt regarding what advice he'd give his early self who…
In an incandescent moment in Indian moviemaker Rima Das’ third feature Bulbul Can Sing, the titular character, an Assamese teenage girl, is guided onto the bough of…
In 2015 our creative team set out to produce "50 Feet from Syria"—focused on the civilian impact of the Syrian…
A purveyor of communal introspection and historical accountability, Romanian visionary Radu Jude makes movies about specific events, defining time periods,…
Attaining Oscar glory in the Best Foreign Language Film category back in 2007 with his first feature, The Lives of…
One of the most celebrated cinematographers in filmmaking, Roger Deakins has, until last night, been always the bridesmaid and never…
In the pantheon of mother-daughter movies, it might seem like a simplistic statement to say that what makes Greta Gerwig’s…
Garnering Christopher Nolan his very first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director, Dunkirk represents the apex of his…
With Phantom Thread giving Paul Thomas Anderson his first Best Director nomination since 2007, the American auteur has scored his biggest success…
In this video essay, Evan Puschak of Nerdwriter seeks to examine the many different ways by which genre conventions can…
Courtesy of the Academy-Award nominated star of The Shape of Water, here are 10 rules for building, and sustaining, a…
Conceived to forge men via traditional practices, the rite of passage in South Africa’s Xhosa community is grounded on the…
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MovieMaker’s series “Foreign Contenders” features interviews with the heavyweight helmers behind their respective countries’ entries for the Academy Award for Best…
This year, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) chose to cut the number of films it opted to include in…
February 2017 was filled with plenty of surprise and controversy. If only the 2016 presidential election had had the same…
From The Boxtrolls, to Anomalisa, to Kubo and the Two Strings, stop-motion animation has consecutively held its place within the category of…
Describing a war film as "visually economical" goes against the expectation of grandeur associated with those stories. In the case…