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Indie Law: Our Entertainment Law Expert Pulls Your Legal Questions From The MM Mailbag
For this edition of Indie Law, we asked readers to send us their burning legal questions to be answered by our long-time favorite independent film...
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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...
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Light of My Life: Writer-Director-Star Casey Affleck’s Character-Driven Vision of a World Without Women
Academy Awarding-winning actor Casey Affleck takes his time between endeavors behind the camera. Affleck’s intimate post-apocalyptic drama Light of my Life comes nearly 10 years after...
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Zhuhai Caper: The Long Gone Wild Team Almost Landed in a Chinese Gulag While Filming Undercover
You may remember Ric O’Barry from the Oscar-winning documentary, The Cove, in which he and a team of daring filmmakers go undercover to expose the...
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Hollywood Ending: Quentin Tarantino on Making Movies, Finding Love, and Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood
The first time Quentin Tarantino and I connect, he offers me an apology. “I’m not trying to be flaky,” he insists, in a tenor that’s...
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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...
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Breaking and Entering, Part Two: A Map To Finding Feature Funding
If you didn’t read part one of this article, stop now and go back to the Winter 2019 issue of MovieMaker. There, we broke down...
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A Talk on the Wilde Side: Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart, Her New Home Behind the Camera, and Her Plans to Save the World
A young mother whose eight-year-old son was abducted a year earlier awakens in the middle of the night. She remembers her last day with him, how...
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Caution Moviemakers: Directing Movies with Sensitive Subject Matter
An interesting trend has taken hold in movies over the past 25 years: Films have gotten more politically correct. There was an evolution from the...
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Austin Film Festival’s 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2019, Presented by MovieMaker
Whether you’re grinding it out in a large or small market, the first stage of moviemaking—screenwriting—is unenviably lonesome, full of endless drafts and a sea 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...