All posts tagged "Casey Affleck"
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Light of My Life: Writer-Director-Star Casey Affleck’s Character-Driven Vision of a World Without Women
Academy Awarding-winning actor Casey Affleck takes his time between endeavors behind the camera. Affleck’s intimate post-apocalyptic drama Light of my Life comes nearly 10 years after...
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Hearing What’s In Your Head: Kenneth Lonergan On His Process of Writing As a Director
Kenneth Lonergan is a playwright, screenwriter, and director best-known for his searing Oscar-winning original screenplay for Manchester by the Sea. He was also nominated for...
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Independent Spirit Awards 2017: Spirits Stick to Their Essence, Rewarding Moonlight, The Witch and Spa Night
Breaking with what in recent editions served as a preview to the Academy Awards, the 2017 Independent Spirit Awards delivered in political statements, humor and...
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Making Kenneth Lonergan Cry: Manchester by the Sea Editor Jennifer Lame on Cutting Sadness (and Humor!)
In Manchester by the Sea, a grieving janitor (Casey Affleck) returns to the small Massachusetts fishing village where his life fell apart in order to...
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The 54th New York Film Festival: Global Auteurs Talk Craft and Criterion Goes Digital
A parade of festival stunners make the New York Film Festival an elegant affair, one that reassures that movies aren’t dead and that cinema never...
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Telluride Film Festival 2016 Line-Up: What’s Playing in the Mountains?
The 43rd Telluride Film Festival whirs into action from September 2-5, 2016, in Telluride, Colorado. As per tradition, the festival waited until the morning before...
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Social Proof in a Creative District: The Changing Face of Artistic Networking
“Showcase. Collaborate. Create.” The three-part slogan of Creative District reflects a perfect mirror of the production process. A newly launched online networking site for film...
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Editor’s Weekend Pick: Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
MovieMaker’s Editor’s Weekend Pick is Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, written and directed by the multi-talented David Lowery, also starring Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck. Ain’t...
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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...