All posts tagged "Frank Capra"
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The Evolution of Film School in America: Everything to Know, From Dropouts to Disciples, Fairbanks to Francis Ford
Moviemaking has been taught almost as long as it’s been around. The 1890s saw the birth of the medium, and a scant two decades later—in...
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How I Became Known as the “Werner Herzog of the Philippines:” My Journey Making Short Film “Supot”
I know you’re thinking: How did this kid from New York end up making movies on the other side of the world—and being nicknamed the...
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Things I’ve Learned: Peter Bogdanovich
Think of essential American cinema, and Peter Bogdanovich comes immediately to mind. Of a certain breed of moviemaker, he’s one of the originals: doggedly independent,...
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“If I Can Do One More Lost Cause of a Film…” Oliver Stone on Activism
In our Spring issue, we asked Academy-Award winning director Oliver Stone if film can make a difference in vanquishing the darkness and rot that has...
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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...