All posts tagged "Brad Pitt"
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Hollywood Ending: Quentin Tarantino on Making Movies, Finding Love, and Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood
The first time Quentin Tarantino and I connect, he offers me an apology. “I’m not trying to be flaky,” he insists, in a tenor that’s...
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Criterion Crash Course: Moviemaking Lessons from Criterion’s The Tree of Life
Whether you’re a moviemaker, critic, or devoted film collector, lovers of cinema can all agree: A Criterion Collection release is a stamp of cultural importance....
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The Post’s Production: Longtime Spielberg-DP Janusz Kaminski Expresses Himself Through Light
While growing up in Communist Bloc Poland, Janusz Kaminski was permitted by the government to watch gritty American movies of the 1970s, which were intended...
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Haunted By Waters: A River Runs Through It 25 Years Later
Norman Maclean taught at the University of Chicago from 1928 until 1973, retiring as the William Rainey Harper Professor of English. He was older than...
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First Draft: Stay True to Your First Idea to Avoid Killing Characters With Too Much Plot
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Every story begins at your Initial Stimulus–that spark of an...
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First Draft: Living In the Past With Flashbacks and Monologues
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Flashbacks Nothing provokes a more knee-jerk “don’t do it” reaction...
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Review: 12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen
12 Years a Slave Week continues with MovieMaker’s Editor’s Weekend Pick, in which Kelly Leow attempts to express the poignant, brutal experience of watching Steve...
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Wisdom Wednesday:
Marc Forster’s Seven Golden Rules of MoviemakingTwo decades into his career, director Marc Forster has 10 films under his belt— 10 diverse, successful, star-studded films. The talented director started off his...
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2013 Toronto International Film Festival Diary, Day Two: Like Father, Like Son, Le Week-end, Labor Day, 12 Years a Slave
Toronto International Film Festival 2013 correspondent Jeff Meyers continues his screening diary in this installment, covering screenings of Like Father, Like Son, Le Week-end, Labor...
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Things I’ve Learned: Neil Jordan’s 12 Golden Rules of Moviemaking
In the last few years, Neil Jordan, whose career spans three decades, has written and directed episodes of HBO’s The Borgias, his self-described current day...
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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...