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Joseph Marcantonio is the director of Kindred, a psychological horror thriller that, in the tradition of Alfred HItchcock, values suspense…
Watching 1917 in 2020 was a jarring experience for me: My broken attention span isn't used to watching continuous, unbroken…
One of the most important parts of directing is the process of breaking down the script’s dramatic building blocks. Here's…
Suspiria director Luca Guadagnino shares his insights on stylizing scare cinema, staging violence, and what horror and melodrama have in…
Hitchcock’s Heroines is a big, beautiful and, perhaps, ill-timed, survey of women’s style in the films of Alfred Hitchcock.
Notorious is a masterclass from Alfred Hitchcock in crafting three-dimensional villains by giving them logical needs and recognizable conflicts. Read…
French New Wave founding father Francois Truffaut's desire to constantly upend accepted notions of filmmaking has led to an inarguable…
Jeffrey Michael Bays interviews The Bourne Identity editor Saar Klein about crafting suspense in his new book Suspense with a…
A Violent Man writer-director Matt Berkowitz breaks down how exhaustive prep and storyboarding can help you make your toughest, most…
Watch this brief history of Robert Altman's work as a television director for some insight into how he developed his…
Tippi Hedren sits down with MovieMaker to talk Roar, The Birds, animal activism, smoking, Hitchcock and more as she reflects…
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting, we present “First Draft: Surprise or Suspense?" with explanations from Hitchcock about the important difference.
Saul Bass designed some of the most iconic title sequences for directors Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Stanley Kubrick and Martin…
Few cities have had such a dramatic and tumultuous history as Berlin since the turn of the 20th century—the period…
MovieMaker Magazine releases its first-ever annual Guide to Making Horror Movies eBook edition.
Think of essential American cinema and Peter Bogdanovich comes immediately to mind: doggedly independent, sharply intelligent, and a lifelong cinephile.
WTC View, my feature film about life in New York after 9/11, started out as a play back in 2003.…
This week's Wisdom Wednesday, appearing in our upcoming 2014 Complete Guide to Making Movies special issue (on stands very soon!),…