All posts tagged "cannes"
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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”... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
A Tale of Truth and Darkness: An Appreciation of Andrzej Wajda’s Kanał
On April 20, the late Andrzej Wajda’s Kanał, a landmark of Polish cinema and a universally acclaimed masterpiece, celebrates its 60th anniversary. Kanał... -
No Risk of Cliché: The Unorthodox Methods of Director Albert Serra Pay Off in The Death of Louis XIV
The contrast between absolute power and total impotence is the thematic core of Albert Serra’s latest portrait, The Death of Louis XIV.... -
Chewing on What it Means to be Human: Raw Director Julia Ducournau on Her Cannibalistic Coming of Age Movie
Accidentally seeing The Texas Chain Saw Massacre at the age of six is the perfect origin story for a horror director, the... -
Dixie Flicks: How Justin Wheelon Persuaded Skeptical South Carolinians to Embrace Southern City Film Festival
How does a Southeastern film festival land a spot on Film Freeway’s top 100 best-reviewed festivals list after its first year? “We...
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Sydney on the Map: To Land Breakout Roles, Sydney Sweeney Draws Her Own Maps of the Characters She Inhabits
A reverent initiate of a patriarchal regime; a disturbed young psychiatric hospital ward; a sexually questioning teen with a flair for the dramatic; a mysterious denizen...1Inside the Issue: Directing
Think Like A Photographer: Generation Wealth’s Lauren Greenfield Shares How Still Techniques Make Better Movies
The biggest change I experienced when I went from making pictures to making films was the sense of an arc—of creating a story over time, and...Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: Casting Unknowns Was Key to Finding the Laughs and Lived-In Feel of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade
Before I directed my first film, Eighth Grade, I had heard that 90 percent of directing is casting. I’m sure there are other directors who weigh...2