All posts tagged "Festivals"
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In Guns Akimbo, Daniel Radcliffe and Jason Lei Howden Imagine Having Guns Bolted to Your Hands
Jason Lei Howden’s Guns Akimbo imagines Daniel Radcliffe as an online troll who wakes up one day with guns bolted to his hands. It’s a...
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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 year’s 10th anniversary...
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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 from the moment...
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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 I nearly had...
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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: going into a...
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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 Sierra Event Center...
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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 by our passions,...
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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 emblazoned across their...
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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 city’s musical past...
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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 below through patches...
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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...