All posts tagged "cannes"
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Festival Beat: Cannes Film Festival 2019
Cannes: For most moviemakers, it’s the be-all, end-all for their movies to screen here. Maybe for that reason, the pressure began mounting from the moment...
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Cannes: With Frankie, Ira Sachs Invites Audiences To Find The Extraordinary In The Ordinary
Director Ira Sachs has found his greatest inspirations from cinema outside of the US. With filmmakers like Éric Rohmer, Yasujirō Ozu, and Abbas Kiarostami held...
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Cannes: In His Feature Debut, Ukrainian Director Nairman Aliev Seeks Out A Universal Story With Homeward
Armed with a master’s degree and memberships to the Ukranian and European Film Academies, Nairman Aliev now represents his native country Ukraine in the Un...
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Cannes: Xavier Dolan Discusses Matthias & Maxime and His Quest To Convey Honesty Through What Characters Say Between The Lines
Xavier Dolan is no stranger to the Cannes Film Festival. As the director of eight feature films (most of which have premiered at Cannes) by...
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Slow-Burn: Director Lee Chang-dong on Storyboarding, Shooting, Lighting, and Scoring Burning
Eight years after Poetry, Lee Chang-dong premiered Burning in the Cannes Film Festival’s main competition section. Based on the short story “Barn Burning” by Japanese author...
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Cannes Film Festival 2018: Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Kristen Stewart, and More in Our Portrait Gallery
What do red carpet selfies, Netflix films, and pre-premiere advance screenings have in common? They were all roundly banned at the 71st annual Cannes Film...
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Exclusive: Watch John Malkovich Narrate the End of the World in Short Film “Hell” (Video)
If thou stare long into John Malkovich, John Malkovich will also gaze into thee. And when he reads you a “requiem for humanity,” you should...
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Cuts, Both Ways: Sean Baker’s 11 Rules For Editing Your Own Films
Moviemaker Sean Baker edits his own (brilliant) films—like the 2017 Cannes hit The Florida Project. Here, he argues that each process informs the other. 1....
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Ask a Festival Expert: Write In Your Questions About Film Festival Submissions, and We’ll Get the Best Ones Answered
Do you have questions about submitting your film to film festivals, but are too afraid to ask? This is your chance to get a direct...
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Comic Timing: Slack Bay Continues French Director Bruno Dumont’s Pivot Into Slapstick and Farce
If you had told anyone in 2013—after his heartbreaking seventh feature, Camille Claudel 1915—that famously austere French filmmaker Bruno Dumont would four years later be in...
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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...