All posts tagged "Green Room"
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Surrounded By Wolves: Jeremy Saulnier Teamed up with Netflix to Adapt His Latest Atmospheric Thriller Hold the Dark
Since Jeremy Saulnier’s second feature, the slow-burn revenge tale Blue Ruin premiered to rave reviews at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, Saulnier has quickly become one...
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Criterion Crash Course: Moviemaking Lessons From Criterion’s Lone Wolf and Cub
Whether you’re a moviemaker, critic or devoted film collector, lovers of cinema can all agree: A Criterion Collection release is a stamp of cultural importance....
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Bite, Don’t Bark: Three Things Reservoir Dogs Reminds Us About Tough, Thought-Provoking On-Screen Violence
24 years ago today, Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs was released, bringing with it a vicious wake-up call to the crime genre and the earth-shaking entrance...
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Shooting (for) the Moon: How Operation Avalanche Pulled Off a Reanimated Kubrick and a Tricky Legal Argument
“Do you think we could get the real Kubrick for this?” That was the question I asked my producer Matthew Miller after going over the...
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“Making Sense of Something That is Beyond Us:” Anton Yelchin’s Spring 2016 Interview
The MovieMaker staff was shocked and saddened to hear about the untimely passing of actor Anton Yelchin on Sunday, June 19. A talented performer who...
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Subscription Offer: With Code GREENROOM, Unlock Two-for-One Subs, eBooks and Green Room Merchandise
Raising the stakes. That’s what moviemaker Jeremy Saulnier does so well in his new film Green Room (read our full cover story here)… and we’re...
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Shooting the Green Room: Full Interview with DP Sean Porter
We’ve covered Green Room‘s director and cast in previous articles this week. Today we round out our exploration of Jeremy Saulnier’s siege thriller with an...
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Green Room Outtakes: Interviews with Anton Yelchin, Alia Shawkat and Imogen Poots
In Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room, a punk band dubbed The Ain’t Rights (played by actors Anton Yelchin, Alia Shawkat, Joe Cole and Callum Turner) travel...
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Back Against the Wall: Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room Lands like a Punch to the Gut
Is there a more overused word in film journalism than “visceral?” The adjective is applied and misapplied with such frequency that it has become the...
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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...