All posts tagged "Fox Searchlight"
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Flash Forward: Patti Cake$’s Danielle Macdonald and Geremy Jasper are the Duo Responsible for Your Next Summer Jam
She spits out rhymes with savage ease, and faces her New Jersey combat zone armed only with her enlarged aspirations. But before the radiant newcomer...
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The Birth of a Nation’s Biggest Lesson for First-Time Directors? Surround Yourself with Experienced Crew
Following its premiere at Sundance in January, Nate Parker’s directorial debut, The Birth of a Nation, quickly became the biggest thing to hit Park City...
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Ethical Exploitation: How Moviemakers Can Treat Their Unpaid Interns and Volunteers Better
“Can’t get around the old minimum wage, Mortimer.”- Louis Winthorpe, III (Trading Places, 1983) In theory, an internship is a wonderful thing. Students learn from...
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Review: 12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen
12 Years a Slave Week continues with MovieMaker’s Editor’s Weekend Pick, in which Kelly Leow attempts to express the poignant, brutal experience of watching Steve...
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Duplass vs. Goliath: The Duplass Brothers Answer the Question – Should You Make a Big Movie or Little Movie?
“Holy shitballs.” That’s the general feeling we had when we were greenlit for our first studio movie, Cyrus. Understand that we came up making short...
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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...