All posts tagged "directing"
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Read Queen & Slim Creators Lena Waithe and Melina Matsoukas’ Introduction to Their ‘Love Letter to Blackness’
Queen & Slim writer Lena Waithe and director Melina Matsoukas introduced the film at its worldwide premiere Thursday night at AFI Fest in Hollywood. The...
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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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Maternal Intrigue: Ramón Salazar on Constructing Characters for Sunday’s Illness and How Netflix Saved the Film
Engaged in muffled psychological warfare, a mother and the daughter she abandoned over three decades ago channel resentment, guilt, and the remnants of unexpressed affection,...
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We the Animals Director Jeremiah Zagar Discovered His First Narrative Feature in a Bookstore and Shot it on 16mm
Walking through SoHo’s McNally Jackson bookstore back in 2012, director Jeremiah Zagar came across a novel that would dictate the major part of the next...
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Scary Surfing: Director Stephen Susco on Fearing the Internet and How Style Informs Story in Unfriended: Dark Web
In the varying family dynamics within tentpole genre movies, horror has always been the outlier, cannibalistic family to reconstruct genre to its darkest desires. Jumping...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Antoine Fuqua
For Antoine Fuqua, every day as a moviemaker is training day. Since making the leap from helming music videos for the likes of Toni Braxton,...
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A Proper Collaboration: Joaquin Phoenix and Gus Van Sant’s Big Step Forward in Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot
In the 33 years since he made his first feature, the now classic Mala Noche, director Gus Van Sant has occupied a rare position in...
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Zama: Director Lucrecia Martel Discusses Her Long-Awaited New Film
Continuing to explore her interest in lost souls, found elsewhere in her films The Holy Girl (2004) and The Headless Woman (2008), Lurcecia Martel’s new feature film Zama is...
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How They Did It: Recording Live Musical Performances Added Sonic Realism to The House of Tomorrow
My first feature film The House of Tomorrow was shot in a small town in Minnesota called North Branch, as well as in and around...
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How They Did It: Breaking Down the First Film to Cover Pioneering Feminist Intellectual Lou Andreas-Salomé
For years I have been fascinated by people with fractured and contradictory biographies, so-called enfants terribles. Writer, philosopher, and psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé was one of...
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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...