All posts tagged "Fantastic Fest"
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Novel Ideas: Moviemakers Jeremy Saulnier and Macon Blair on Adapting a Book for the Screen and Building Atmosphere
In September, director Jeremy Saulnier and screenwriter Macon Blair attended Fantastic Fest 2018 to present Hold the Dark—a fully-immersive cinematic adaptation of William Giraldi’s 2014...
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Fantastic Fest 2018: Peak Programming and Premieres and a Self-Reflective Tone Shape the Austin Hotspot’s 13th Year
At its heart, Fantastic Fest is not simply a film festival: It’s a weeklong experience of controlled extremity, in which audiences are asked to expand...
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MovieMaker’s 30 Bloody Best Genre Fests in the World in 2019, Presented by HorrorHound
It’s a glorious time to be a horror fan and a horror moviemaker. As proof continues to come in that writer-directors working in horror can...
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The World’s 15 Bloody Best Genre Fests, 2018
The language of fear, like that of music, is universal. Put all the people who’ve weathered hurricanes’ swift destruction of communities, withstood the wrath of...
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The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2017
Keith Richards said it best: “If you gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.” The 25 rare birds on our 2017 Coolest Film Festivals...
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Shooting (for) the Moon: How Operation Avalanche Pulled Off a Reanimated Kubrick and a Tricky Legal Argument
“Do you think we could get the real Kubrick for this?” That was the question I asked my producer Matthew Miller after going over the...
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The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2016
In case you’ve forgotten, sometimes movies can just be about fun. Welcome to the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World. A companion list to...
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Slaying the Horror Festival Circuit: How To Navigate the Deep, Dark Maze of North American Horror Film Festivals
No continent in the world hosts as many horror film festivals as North America, so the task of selecting a handful to submit to can...
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The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2015
We go to film festivals for the same reasons we see our favorite bands in concert. Or pop into bookstores instead of downloading novels onto...
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The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2014
Our annual list of the world’s weirdest and most wonderful cinematic celebrations: the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World. It’s the feeling every moviemaker...
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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...