All posts tagged "directing"
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Movie News
I Made Breaking Fast Because No One Else Had Ever Told My Story
January 27, 2021Mike Mosallam is the writer and director of Breaking Fast, a romantic comedy that follows Mo,...
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Movie News
Think Like a Producer — Advice From The Climb Creators Michael Covino and Kyle Marvin
January 27, 2021Michael Covino and Kyle Marvin wore many caps on their cycling-centric comedy The Climb. They co-wrote...
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Interviews
Yes, God, Yes: Girl Meets Vagina in Karen Maine’s Directorial Debut
July 29, 2020Growing up in Iowa, Yes, God, Yes director Karen Maine remembers “feeling really guilty as a...
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Interviews
Barry Jenkins and Dave Franco Talk The Rental: ‘Dave Franco Is F—ing With People’
July 24, 2020Barry Jenkins was so unnerved by The Rental — the directorial debut from Dave Franco, about...
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Movie News
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets Directors Bill and Turner Ross Brought a Documentary Approach to a Fictional Set-Up
July 24, 2020Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, the latest film from moviemaker siblings Bill and Turner Ross, has a...
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Best Of
Quentin Tarantino: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
March 1, 2020Quentin Tarantino never went to film school. But he has a lot to teach, from the...
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Movie News
A Hidden Life: August Diehl and Valerie Pachner Say Terrence Malick Filmed Them While Sleeping in Between Takes
December 13, 2019A Hidden Life director Terrence Malick has a reputation for keeping a low public profile. But...
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Movie News
Quentin Tarantino: What Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Borrows From The Stuntman
December 13, 2019Quentin Tarantino says part of the story structure of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood is...
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Movie News
In Fabric Director Peter Strickland and The Lighthouse Director Robert Eggers Share How David Lynch Changed Their Lives
December 10, 2019When MovieMaker put In Fabric director Peter Strickland and The Lighthouse director Robert Eggers together on...
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Movie News
In Fabric Director Peter Strickland and The Lighthouse Director Robert Eggers on the Pros and Cons of Research
December 5, 2019(Spoiler warning: This discussion between In Fabric director Peter Strickland and The Lighthouse director Robert Eggers...
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Movie News
Read Queen & Slim Creators Lena Waithe and Melina Matsoukas’ Introduction to Their ‘Love Letter to Blackness’
November 15, 2019Queen & Slim writer Lena Waithe and director Melina Matsoukas introduced the film at its worldwide...
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Interviews
Cannes: In His Feature Debut, Ukrainian Director Nairman Aliev Seeks Out A Universal Story With Homeward
May 25, 2019Armed with a master’s degree and memberships to the Ukranian and European Film Academies, Nairman Aliev...
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Directing
Maternal Intrigue: Ramón Salazar on Constructing Characters for Sunday’s Illness and How Netflix Saved the Film
August 23, 2018Engaged in muffled psychological warfare, a mother and the daughter she abandoned over three decades ago...
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Directing
We the Animals Director Jeremiah Zagar Discovered His First Narrative Feature in a Bookstore and Shot it on 16mm
August 23, 2018Walking through SoHo’s McNally Jackson bookstore back in 2012, director Jeremiah Zagar came across a novel...
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Directing
Scary Surfing: Director Stephen Susco on Fearing the Internet and How Style Informs Story in Unfriended: Dark Web
July 20, 2018In the varying family dynamics within tentpole genre movies, horror has always been the outlier, cannibalistic...
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Directing
Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Antoine Fuqua
July 19, 2018For Antoine Fuqua, every day as a moviemaker is training day. Since making the leap from...
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Directing
A Proper Collaboration: Joaquin Phoenix and Gus Van Sant’s Big Step Forward in Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot
July 12, 2018In the 33 years since he made his first feature, the now classic Mala Noche, director...
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Directing
Zama: Director Lucrecia Martel Discusses Her Long-Awaited New Film
May 8, 2018Continuing to explore her interest in lost souls, found elsewhere in her films The Holy Girl (2004)...
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Directing
How They Did It: Recording Live Musical Performances Added Sonic Realism to The House of Tomorrow
May 1, 2018My first feature film The House of Tomorrow was shot in a small town in Minnesota...
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Directing
How They Did It: Breaking Down the First Film to Cover Pioneering Feminist Intellectual Lou Andreas-Salomé
April 18, 2018For years I have been fascinated by people with fractured and contradictory biographies, so-called enfants terribles....
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Things Learned
Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Jonas Mekas
April 3, 2018“I hope you’re taping this. One day I would like to have a copy,” Jonas Mekas tells...
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Directing
How They Did It: 24 Set-Ups + 12 Hours A Day x Three Days = A 22-Minute Short, “Kill the Light”
January 30, 2018Shooting a short takes longer than you’d think. That is, unless, you utilize the wonderful world...
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Directing
Storytelling in Action: Four Tips For Crafting the Perfect Action Sequence From The Commuter‘s Jaume Collet-Serra
January 10, 2018Jaume Collet-Serra is a Barcelona-born director whose films increasingly testify to a deft eye for action,...
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Directing
Art of Darkness: Hostiles‘ Scott Cooper on Genre, Race, and the American Soul
December 27, 2017“Life is nasty and brutish and short.” “Thomas Hobbes said that,” he explains. It’s the perfect...
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