All posts tagged "Chicago International Film Festival"
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The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2018
What is it you’re after—the art of cool, or the cool of art? The fact is, all of the most imaginative, surprising, and downright wild...
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The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2017
Keith Richards said it best: “If you gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.” The 25 rare birds on our 2017 Coolest Film Festivals...
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Fessenden on Festivals: Indie Horror’s Larry Fessenden Reflects on the Fests that Shaped His Career
Ah, film festivals, the gateway to distribution for an independent film. When I was starting out in the late ’80s and early ’90s, there was...
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Festival Strategy 101: Plot the Right Course for Your Film
We’ve all heard the tired homily about a Sundance premiere being the festival holy grail, without which your film is dead on arrival. That just...
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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...
Inside the Issue: How To
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...