All posts tagged "Grandma"
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Singing for Your Life: Paul Weitz on Adapting and Directing Bel Canto
In Bel Canto Julianne Moore plays celebrated opera diva Roxanne Coss, caught up in the center of a hostage crisis in Paul... -
Grandma, What Big Roles You Have: How Paul Weitz Became a Feminist Director
In Grandma, Lily Tomlin does not play your typical grandma. She doesn’t bake cookies or assume a beatific and benign smile through adversity.... -
Can an “Older Woman” Open a Movie? Lily Tomlin and Patricia Clarkson Steer Grandma and Learning to Drive to Success
“How fabulous that we have two films opening Friday that are driven by women north of 50,” Patricia Clarkson told me last...
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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...Inside 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...