All posts tagged "Chris Kelly"
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Gay, Incidentally: Gay Characters Don’t Need to Hook Up Just Because They’re Gay, Handsome Devil Points Out
There is nothing coy about telling a story about two young men who aren’t straight, where those two men don’t hook up. Nothing coy at...
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Funnily Enough: Why Comedians are a Sad Film’s Secret Weapons, by the Director of Other People
When my mother was dying of cancer in late 2009, I remember thinking, “Why doesn’t this feel like the cancer movies I’ve seen?” “Where is...
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What’s in Your Kit?, Sundance 2016 Edition: Cinematographer Brian Burgoyne (Other People)
For our series What’s in Your Kit, we ask a range of working cinematographers to share the gear they can’t live without. Brian Burgoyne, whose...
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How They Did It: Snakes & Mosquitoes in Raw Cut, Mining for Ruby
Writer Daniel Ponickly and director Zoe Quist have had an action-packed year, with not one but two movies opening this weekend. With indie thriller Raw...
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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...