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March 27, 2014
Director Tom Berninger had no initial conception of where his documentary on the National, Mistaken for Strangers, was going to…
February 6, 2014
Director Jenée LaMarque's heartfelt, clever feature debut, The Pretty One, tells the story of Laurel, a shy, sensitive young woman…
January 24, 2014
Gloria, Sebastián Lelio's feature about a spirited older woman determined to get the most out of life, raises questions about…
December 12, 2013
Academy Award nominee Lucy Walker's latest documentary, The Crash Reel, tells the story of Kevin Pearce, the Virginian snowboarder poised…
November 14, 2013
MovieMaker's editor's weekend pick is The Book Thief, directed by Brian Percival. Based on Markus Zusak's beloved New York Times…
October 31, 2013
“Every day I was crying,” says director Felix Van Groeningen about his experience in production on The Broken Circle Breakdown,…
September 26, 2013
“Porn is another medium and it is, frankly, more popular than movies!” says Joseph Gordon-Levitt on his directorial debut Don…
September 19, 2013
If you don't premiere at Sundance, can you still mount a successful festival run? Director Kyle Patrick Alvarez thinks so.
September 5, 2013
This week’s Editor’s Weekend Pick is Shane Salerno’s documentary on the iconic, reclusive American novelist J. D. Salinger, aptly titled…
August 29, 2013
Afternoon Delight, which netted Jill Soloway the dramatic directing award at this year's Sundance Film Festival, stars the talented, immediately…
August 15, 2013
MovieMaker’s Editor’s Weekend Pick is Ain't Them Bodies Saints, written and directed by the multi-talented David Lowery, also starring Rooney…
August 8, 2013
MovieMaker’s Editor’s Weekend Pick is director-writer-producer David Gordon Green’s Prince Avalanche, starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch.
July 25, 2013
Two MovieMaker editors share their favorite moments in Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing, a shocking record of Indonesian executioner…
June 19, 2013
Our inaugural choice for Editor’s Weekend Pick is Tobias Lindholm’s A Hijacking. MovieMaker’s Weekend Pick is a window on our…