All posts tagged "errol morris"
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Mixed Media: Award-Winning Touch Me Not Explores Notions of Intimacy Through a Variety of Boundary-Pushing Methods
Part documentary, part narrative feature, part research project, part autofiction, Romanian writer/director Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not rests comfortably on the boundary between genres and tones that...
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The Ashtray: Errol Morris Reimagines Total World Philosophy in Overwhelming New Book
New from Errol Morris, The Ashtray (Or the Man Who Denied Reality) is the legendary writer-director’s first book since 2012’s A Wilderness of Error: The...
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2017 AFI Fest Preview: 10 Films and Filmmakers From This Year’s Line-Up You Should Track Down
Returning for the 31st round, AFI Fest continues to have some of the most striking, innovative, and exciting filmmaking in national and international cinema. From...
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ICYMI: The Best of October 2017 on MovieMaker.com
October 2017 was an especially spooky month on Moviemaker.com. With the brand new introduction of The World’s 15 Best Genre Fests, tips on shooting and...
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“Where Are We Without Truth?”: Errol Morris on Why Doc Moviemakers Should See Themselves as Journalists
“I hope I was able to talk about the film in some way,” Errol Morris joked after our hour-long exchange. Much like his pioneering, interview-heavy...
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Telluride Film Festival 2016 Line-Up: What’s Playing in the Mountains?
The 43rd Telluride Film Festival whirs into action from September 2-5, 2016, in Telluride, Colorado. As per tradition, the festival waited until the morning before...
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The Art of the Interview: 10 Essential Tenets of On-Camera Conversation
Ken Burns stopped. The legendary documentarian typically plows forward with the relentless tenacity of a cragged New Englander picking rocks from a bony potato field...
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Best of 2014: 12 Articles to Sum Up the Year in MovieMaker
To ring in the new year here at MovieMaker, we’re doing a little bit of a 2014 in Review thing, which means we’ll be revisiting...
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Powers to the People: SundanceNow Doc Club Brings Curated Documentaries to VOD
You love documentaries. And what better way to satisfy your doc habit than by plunking down a few bucks to get access all your favorites,...
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MovieMaker Magazine Spring 2014: The Activism in Film Issue, On Stands April 22!
MovieMaker #108 Preview: THE ACTIVISM IN FILM ISSUE: CAN MOVIEMAKERS SAVE THE WORLD? The Spring 2014 issue is on newsstands, and available digitally, starting April...
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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...