All posts tagged "afi fest"
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Our Time: Carlos Reygadas Discusses His Daily Routine, Thoughts on Relationships, and How Cinema is Like Fishing
In a noisy world, Mexican auteur Carlos Reygadas makes cinema centered on presence. In that presence, something much bigger occurs beyond the topographically satisfying plotlines...
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AFI Fest 2018 Wrap: Team MovieMaker‘s Favorites From This Year’s Festival
In experimenting with all forms of moviemaking, this year’s AFI Fest slate managed to spread the focus of its selections even more than years past....
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AFI Fest 2018 Preview: International Masters and New Voices Come to Hollywood with Boundary-Pushing Stories
Year after year, cinephiles in Los Angeles eagerly await the announcement of AFI Fest’s list of award-winning titles, which encompasses the best of international cinema...
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From Argento to Leone: Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani Dissect the Genre Influences of Let the Corpses Tan
As Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani continue to refine the giallo-inflected post-modern aesthetic they first explored in their 2009 debut feature Amer, the married French moviemaking team...
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The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2018
What is it you’re after—the art of cool, or the cool of art? The fact is, all of the most imaginative, surprising, and downright wild...
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Full Circle: Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead Cement Their Indie Horror Mastery With UFO Cult Chiller The Endless
Ever relive a moment over and over again until you realize you’re in a UFO-obsessed death cult? I’ve been asking around at parties, and it...
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Foreign Contenders: Ildikó Enyedi Aligns Framing and Sound for the Dreamy Romance in Hungary’s On Body and Soul
Involuntarily stoic and permanently immaculate, but with a diligent willingness to forge bonds with others around her, Mária (Alexandra Borbély) joins a slaughterhouse as the new...
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2017 AFI Fest Preview: 10 Films and Filmmakers From This Year’s Line-Up You Should Track Down
Returning for the 31st round, AFI Fest continues to have some of the most striking, innovative, and exciting filmmaking in national and international cinema. From...
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"I Am All My Characters": Director João Pedro Rodrigues on the Transformative Delights of The Ornithologist
It’s scorching in Los Angeles and it’s just as warm in Paris. That’s what director João Pedro Rodrigues tells me at the beginning of our...
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Crowd-Teasers: Donald Cried Trailer Features Scant Crying, Lots of Uncomfortable Smiling
In sharp contrast with the film’s title, the trailer for Kris Avedisian’s Donald Cried features a marked profusion of smiling. Donald (played by Avedisian, who...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
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How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...