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  • Movie News

My Baby Teeth Reignited My Creativity in ‘Tooth’

My short film "Tooth" came out of nowhere. For me, the COVID years were full of heaviness, and not for…

6 months ago
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2022 Climax Critics Awards Announced In Ambitious New “Vexhibition”

The Climax Critics Awards, based out of Madrid, Spain, announced its award winners following an ambitious art "vexhibition," where filmmakers…

1 year ago
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I Made Breaking Fast Because No One Else Had Ever Told My Story

Mike Mosallam is the writer and director of Breaking Fast, a romantic comedy that follows Mo, a practicing Muslim reeling…

3 years ago
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Think Like a Producer — Advice From The Climb Creators Michael Covino and Kyle Marvin

Michael Covino and Kyle Marvin wore many caps on their cycling-centric comedy The Climb. They co-wrote and star in the…

3 years ago
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Yes, God, Yes: Girl Meets Vagina in Karen Maine’s Directorial Debut

Growing up in Iowa, Yes, God, Yes director Karen Maine remembers "feeling really guilty as a young Catholic girl for…

4 years ago
  • Interviews

Barry Jenkins and Dave Franco Talk The Rental: ‘Dave Franco Is F—ing With People’

Barry Jenkins was so unnerved by The Rental — the directorial debut from Dave Franco, about a seemingly perfect vacation…

4 years ago
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Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets Directors Bill and Turner Ross Brought a Documentary Approach to a Fictional Set-Up

Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, the latest film from moviemaker siblings Bill and Turner Ross, has a simple premise: Some barflies…

4 years ago
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Quentin Tarantino: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker

Quentin Tarantino never went to film school. But he has a lot to teach, from the importance of knowing your…

4 years ago
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A Hidden Life: August Diehl and Valerie Pachner Say Terrence Malick Filmed Them While Sleeping in Between Takes

A Hidden Life director Terrence Malick has a reputation for keeping a low public profile. But the film's stars, August…

4 years ago
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Quentin Tarantino: What Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Borrows From The Stuntman

Quentin Tarantino says part of the story structure of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood is built around an idea…

4 years ago
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In Fabric Director Peter Strickland and The Lighthouse Director Robert Eggers Share How David Lynch Changed Their Lives

When MovieMaker put In Fabric director Peter Strickland and The Lighthouse director Robert Eggers together on a call, our goal…

4 years ago
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In Fabric Director Peter Strickland and The Lighthouse Director Robert Eggers on the Pros and Cons of Research

(Spoiler warning: This discussion between In Fabric director Peter Strickland and The Lighthouse director Robert Eggers contains a spoiler about…

4 years ago
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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…

4 years ago
  • Interviews

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…

5 years ago
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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…

6 years ago
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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…

6 years ago
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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…

6 years ago
  • Things Learned

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…

6 years ago
  • 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

In the 33 years since he made his first feature, the now classic Mala Noche, director Gus Van Sant has…

6 years ago
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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),…

6 years ago
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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…

6 years ago
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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…

6 years ago
  • Things Learned

Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Jonas Mekas

"I hope you’re taping this. One day I would like to have a copy,” Jonas Mekas tells me from his New…

6 years ago
  • Directing

How They Did It: 24 Set-Ups + 12 Hours A Day x Three Days = A 22-Minute Short, “Kill the Light”

Shooting a short takes longer than you'd think. That is, unless, you utilize the wonderful world of preproduction to its…

6 years ago