All posts tagged "Imogen Poots"
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Landing the Punch: Riley Stearns on Carefully Crafted Satire and Establishing Tone in The Art of Self-Defense
Although only one requires a cool costume with colorful belt options, karate and satire have a lot more in common than you might think. Both...
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How They Did It: Directing Actors, Stunt Doubles, Dogs, and Roosters on the Unpredictable Set of Mobile Homes
Shooting a scene in my new film Mobile Homes in which a mobile home falls into a lake presented a big challenge—one with which my crew...
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Exclusive: An Apple A Day Keeps The System Away In This Clip from Vladimir de Fontenay’s Mobile Homes (Video)
Adapted from his 2013 short of the same name, writer-director Vladimir de Fontenay paints a beautifully uncomfortable picture with his feature slice-of-wandering life Mobile Homes. Starring Imogen...
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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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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: 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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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...