All posts tagged "Bruce Dern"
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Three’s Company: A Busy Weekend Of L.A. Film Fests Highlights The City’s Multiculturalism and Fierce Independence
Repertoire theaters, star-studded evenings, plenty of multiplexes and art houses theaters, as well as a never-ending stream of festivals make Los Angeles a perpetually engaging...
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Festival Wrap: Portland EcoFilm Festival 2016
An ecstatic crowd greeted 2016’s Portland EcoFilm Festival, which took place at Portland, Oregon’s historic Hollywood Theatre from October 20-23. The event focused heavily on the...
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Festival Wrap: The Second Bentonville Film Festival Leads the Road to Diversity (With a Couple of Missteps)
It feels great to like something first: to know the band before they get radio play, to be a regular at the restaurant before it...
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Things I’ve Learned: Alexander Payne
Alexander Payne’s bittersweet take on humanity’s foibles have etched their way to the center of our idea of modern America–the way we see ourselves. The...
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New York Film Critics Series Launches Tomorrow Nation-wide: with a Special Discount for MovieMaker Readers
The New York Film Critics Series is launching a brand new in-theater series featuring previews of major films screened simultaneously in cities across America. The...
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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...