All posts tagged "Festivals"
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Festival Beat: Timeless Titles Grow Old But Never Die at TCM Classic Film Festival 2019
Repertory cinema is alive and well across the world, and the TCM Classic Film Festival is the zenith of repertory celebrations. This... -
Festival Beat: Cannes Film Festival 2019
Cannes: For most moviemakers, it’s the be-all, end-all for their movies to screen here. Maybe for that reason, the pressure began mounting... -
Festival Beat: Elevated Programming Makes Jury Duty Fun at Mammoth Lakes Film Festival 2019
Having narrowly escaped jury duty this past spring, I volunteered myself for another. No, not for a DUI case like the one... -
MovieMaker’s 15 Submission-Worthy Screenwriting Competitions of 2019, Presented by Coverfly
In his must-read tome Adventures in the Screen Trade, the late, great author William Goldman states: “Writing is finally about one thing:... -
Mammoth Lakes Film Festival: Jury Members, Including MovieMaker’s Tim Rhys, Announce 2018 Award Winners
The fourth annual Mammoth Lakes Film Festival (MLFF) announced this year’s juried and audience award winners on its closing night at the... -
Festival Wrap: Küstendorf International Film and Music Festival 2018
“Bound by Film” was the slogan of the 2018 Küstendorf International Film and Music Festival (January 16-21, 2018). We are all bound... -
Festival Beat: Washington West Film Festival 2017
This D.C. festival is filled with films that provoke both reaction and change. “Story can change the world” is Washington West’s motto—it’s... -
Festival Wrap: Indie Memphis 2017 Celebrates 20 Years of Flavorful Cinema
From the moment you arrive at the airport in Memphis, Tennessee, Elvis Presley follows you around as an omnipresent figure. Indeed, the... -
Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival 2017: This Multicultural Delight’s Sixth Edition Kicked Into High Gear
Taking off from Barcelona, my plane crested a sea of clouds, thick and white like tundra. Here and there, the Mediterranean sparkled... -
YoFiFest 2017: It’s Easy To Get Lost In The Movies At This New York City-Adjacent Fest
Yonkers, just north of New York City, might conjure images of political intrigue, Son of Sam, or the quirky characters in Neil...
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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...1Inside the Issue: Directing
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...Inside the Issue: How To
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...