All posts tagged "hereditary"
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How They Did It: Seamless Stunt Work and Smartly Drawn Shot Lists Fueled The Mountaintop Sequence in Midsommar
In Midsommar—my sophomore feature about a codependent couple whose doomed fate leads them to a nightmarish summer solstice celebration among an ancestral Swedish cult called...
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Looks That Kill: Eleven Horror DPs Reveal the Tricks and Tech Behind the Year’s Scariest Shooting Schemes
Scary movies this year have ranged from high-profile reboots to independent breakouts to ambitious microbudgeters, and they all have one thing in common: Cinematography was...
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MovieMaker’s 30 Bloody Best Genre Fests in the World in 2019, Presented by HorrorHound
It’s a glorious time to be a horror fan and a horror moviemaker. As proof continues to come in that writer-directors working in horror can...
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How They Did It: Building Hereditary’s Haunted Houses From Scratch Was First-Time Helmer Ari Aster’s Living Nightmare
One day during the making of Hereditary, I broke down on set. For a first film with limited resources, you need to have everything planned out to a T, including...
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Sundance Film Festival: Seven Breakthrough Moviemakers at Park City in 2018
Much has been written about the smaller nature of this year’s Sundance 2018 Film Festival. While some applauded this return-to-roots of championing “emerging” voices, others...
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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...