All posts tagged "Elijah Wood"
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Heavy Heart, Heavy Art: To Make a Genre Film With Feeling, Embrace Imperfection and Personal Pain and Work With People You Love, Says Mandy Writer-Director Panos Cosmatos
Mandy wouldn’t exist without the influence of my parents. My dad, writer-director George P. Cosmatos (Massacre in Rome, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Cobra, Tombstone) showed me...
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Under Pressure: With Her Bitingly Excellent Horror-Comedy Bitch, Filmmaker Marianna Palka Wages a War Against Time
Sometimes a logline just calls your name. “A woman snaps under crushing life pressures and assumes the psyche of a vicious dog,” went the one...
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In Total Control of His Out of Control: With Colossal, Nacho Vigalondo Breaks Into Major League Moviemaking
Nacho Vigalondo is constantly under self-review—both as an artist and, if movies are a window into a director’s psyche, as a man. Spend a little...
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At Home Behind the Camera: Actor-Turned-Director Macon Blair Talks Making I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore
Macon Blair is no stranger to Sundance. The actor is the childhood friend of, and a long-time collaborator with, writer-director Jeremy Saulnier, and their breakout...
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Sundance Film Festival 2017: See Celebs Confront the Snow in Our Portrait Gallery
Diehard Sundance Film Festival fans often point to the democratizing nature of Park City, Utah’s brutal weather as one of the event’s major charms. And...
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Releasing Your Demons: We Asked Some Pros to Discuss the Nature of the Horror Distribution Beast
Should you release your horror film in theaters before it hits video-on-demand? Or on VOD before theaters? Or do it day-and-date, i.e. on both platforms...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Taylor Russell on Waves and Why She’s OK With Being an Adult Who Plays High School Students
In director Trey Edward Shults’ Waves, Taylor Russell plays the younger sister of Kelvin Harrison Jr., even though she’s five days older than him in real life. In fact,...
Inside the Issue: Directing
Rob Zombie: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Rob Zombie still can’t let go of some of his past off-screen nightmares. “After I finished Halloween II, I was so beat up by the process that I hated...
Inside the Issue: How To
Edward Norton Walks Us Through Every Part of Making Motherless Brooklyn
Edward Norton is the best possible person to explain each stage of the moviemaking process for his new drama Motherless Brooklyn—he’s the film’s writer, director and lead actor. For...