This filmmaking advice from George Romero was originally published on May 26, 2010. He died on July 16, 2017. Romero's…
From Death Stranding to Star Wars to Marvel, from prestige TV (Hannibal) to high-profile Oscar contenders (At Eternity’s Gate), Mads Mikkelsen can be…
Since we're all spending more time indoors lately, its prime time to write that screenplay you've been putting off. So…
Ari Aster, director of the acclaimed Midsommar and Hereditary, talks in this essay about one of the hardest parts of…
For this edition of Indie Law, we asked readers to send us their burning legal questions to be answered by…
Richard Linklater's Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot,…
Academy Award-winning actor Casey Affleck takes his time between directing projects: Affleck's intimate post-apocalyptic drama Light of my Life comes nearly 10…
You may remember Ric O'Barry from the Oscar-winning documentary, The Cove, in which he and a team of daring filmmakers…
The first time Quentin Tarantino and I connect, he offers me an apology. "I'm not trying to be flaky," he…
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus... even while reading like a…
If you didn't read part one of this article, stop now and go back to the Winter 2019 issue of…
A young mother whose eight-year-old son was abducted a year earlier awakens in the middle of the night. She remembers her…
An interesting trend has taken hold in movies over the past 25 years: Films have gotten more politically correct. There…
Whether you're grinding it out in a large or small market, the first stage of moviemaking—screenwriting—is unenviably lonesome, full of endless…
On the surface, many entries in Claire Denis' filmography appear relatively easy to synopsize (her latest High Life follows a…
"Journalism Plus" is how Academy Award-winning moviemaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) characterizes making documentaries. If you’re a documentarian, you may not…
I wrote the script for my new film, Dogman, 12 years ago, and during those years I changed it many…
I shot Wild Nights with Emily (writer-director Madeleine Olnek’s comedic biopic about the writings and romantic life of Emily Dickinson,…
In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis’ debut novel, Less than Zero, was published, introducing the 21-year-old author as a cataloguer of…
As a cinematographer the first thing you need to do is understand exactly what your director wants from the script.…
When director Yen Tan and I first started talking about his new feature, 1985, we knew immediately that we wanted to shoot on Super 16mm…
In the documentary on legendary producer Robert Evans, The Kid Stays in the Picture, Evans explains early and often that the key to success…
Depicting the ancestral culture of the Wayuu—a Native American group indigenous to northern Colombia—and shedding light on their complex relationship with death and dreams, directors Cristina Gallego and Ciro…
When I was playing drums in the Swedish black metal band Bathory in the early 1980s, it took me a little while to realize…