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Brian Cox Succession Licorice Pizza Paul Thomas Anderson House of Gucci
November 16, 2021
Succession star Brian Cox is set for his directorial debut; Licorice Pizza reviews are beginning to roll in; Lady Gaga's…
Being the Ricardos I Love Lucy David Fincher
October 19, 2021
A first look at Aaron Sorkin's Being the Ricardos; lots of film festival news; and David Fincher makes video essays.…
November 26, 2019
Highlights of AFI Fest included Queen & Slim, Richard Jewell, A Hidden Life, To the Ends of the Earth, Bombshell,…
Knives and Skin Jennifer Reeder
November 20, 2019
Director Jennifer Reeder wanted her debut feature Knives and Skin "to be a feminist film where at the center of…
Atlantics
November 13, 2019
AFI FEST 2019 presented by Audi (November 14–21) offers L.A. audiences unprecedented access to top awards contenders and boundary-pushing indie…
July 9, 2019
Like when you have a fish wriggling on the hook, moviemaking is about staying calm during moments of great friction,…
November 27, 2018
From lost dogs and haunted dresses to fathers, sons and drugged-up popstars, here are some of MovieMaker's favorite films from…
November 8, 2018
To guide you as you decide what to watch during the eight-day event, we've put together a list of 10…
August 28, 2018
With New York's Quad Cinema currently running a screening series curated by Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, we asked the…
July 9, 2018
MovieMaker's 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2018 list has arrived. Grab some shades lest you get blinded by…
April 17, 2018
MovieMaker met up with Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson at their apartment, where they dished on everything from conceptualizing the script…
January 9, 2018
Ildikó Enyedi, writer-director of 2018 Best Foreign Language Film contender On Body and Soul, discusses Eastern European cinema, shooting with…
November 8, 2017
2017 AFI Fest (November 9-16) director of programming Lane Kneedler comments on fest highlights, including films from Haneke, del Toro,…
June 30, 2017
The Ornithologist is fascinating, sensually profane and delightful, adjectives that, depending on who you ask, could easily apply to its…
February 2, 2017
In sharp contrast with the film’s title, the trailer for Kris Avedisian’s Donald Cried features a marked profusion of smiling.
November 21, 2016
AFI Fest’s arrival in fall heralds the true beginning of the holiday season for many Los Angeles-dwellers, with such great…
November 16, 2016
Good fortune and strategic diligence. Those, say iconic actress Isabelle Huppert, are the key ingredients to a long, enviable career.
November 4, 2016
AFI Fest (November 10-17, 2016), now in its 30th year, is entirely free, and offers a special treat for lovers…
November 10, 2015
For an insider look to this year's AFI FEST presented by Audi, we asked participating filmmaker Alison Bagnall, whose feature…
November 4, 2015
MovieMaker sent out a survey with three questions for a wide swath of directors whose films are playing at AFI…
November 25, 2014
MovieMaker Magazine's 111th issue, Fall 2014, hits newsstands around the U.S. and Canada today. The issue is also available for…
January 13, 2014
It’s MovieMaker’s 2014 edition of the Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker! We’re counting down through our…
November 7, 2013
AFI Fest, the incumbent monarch of Los Angeles' film festivals, rears its glamorous head again with John Lee Hancock's Saving…
July 30, 2013
MovieMaker’s Trailblazer Tuesday Crowdfunder of the Week is Dave Boyle’s The Man from Reno, a film about a Japanese author…