All posts tagged "Jake Gyllenhaal"
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The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2019: Small Cities and Towns
“The film business as we know it is never going back to Los Angeles,” director Joe Carnahan reportedly said during a recent press conference. “It’s...
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No Guts, No Story: Find Your Screenplay’s Soul By Trusting Your Instincts and Your Allies
I’ve wanted to make films for a long time, but my problem was always the ability to write something. I’d written down thoughts and ideas,...
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Kindling Kinship: To Write an Adaptation, Build Bonds Between Your Creative Partners and Your Source Material
The process of adaptation is always different depending on what source material you’re working with, but my co-writer Thomas Bidegain and I always start by...
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Finding the Human: Dan Gilroy Talks Script Formatting and Writing Roman J. Israel, Esq. on Spec for Denzel Washington
Dan Gilroy’s newest movie, Roman J. Israel, Esq. stars Denzel Washington as a legal savant—a civil rights attorney who’s been toiling in the back office...
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ICYMI: The Best of November 2016 on Moviemaker.com
Break out of that Thanksgiving food coma and join us as we wrap up November 2016 on Moviemaker.com with our monthly best-of list. Here are...
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“Americana With a Hint of Jaundice”: DP Seamus McGarvey Talks Style, Mood of Nocturnal Animals
Tom Ford, the director, writer and producer of Nocturnal Animals, turned up at a Bafta screening last night with stars Michael Shannon, Amy Adams and...
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Appetite for Deconstruction: Jean-Marc Vallée and Jake Gyllenhaal Talk Demolition
Jean-Marc Vallée can’t slow down. The Montreal-born director’s feverish pace has resulted in three features in just three years: Dallas Buyers Club (2013), Wild (2014)...
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Kings of the Underworld: Denis Villeneuve, Benicio Del Toro and Emily Blunt on Sicario
“Directing is more the art of listening than of being a dictator,” says Denis Villeneuve, articulating a philosophy that has generated an increasingly complex and...
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MovieMaker’s Fall 2014 Issue: Now On Stands!
MovieMaker Magazine’s 111th issue, Fall 2014, hits newsstands around the U.S. and Canada today. The issue is also available for digital download via iTunes and...
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Richard Kelly’s Second Chance: The Director Reflects on How Donnie Darko Became a Cult Hit
Movies that barely net a half million at the box office are generally written off as duds in Hollywood. But Donnie Darko, Richard Kelly’s promising...
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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...
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 cancer diagnosis hidden...