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“Trimming the Fat”: A Slimmer TIFF 2017 Lineup Still Offers a Robust Selection of Quality Programming

This year, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) chose to cut the number of films it opted to include in…

7 years ago
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Toronto International Film Festival 2016: Top Talent Shine in Our TIFF Gallery

Photographer Fabrice Dall'Anese was MovieMaker's man on the ground at the 41st Toronto International Film Festival, which ran September 8-18…

8 years ago
  • Interviews

Brother to Brother: A Conversation Between David Gordon Green and Andrew Neel of Fraternity Drama Goat

Takedowns of toxic masculinity have been in vogue of late, but rarely has one felt as personal as Goat, Andrew…

8 years ago
  • Movie News

Exclusive: ArcLight Presents Slamdance Cinema Club Unveils June, July and August Titles (plus, a Ticket Giveaway!)

ArcLight Presents Slamdance Cinema Club, the recently minted collaboration between Arclight Cinemas and the Slamdance Film Festival, today announced their…

9 years ago
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Slamdance 2015 Exclusive: Gabrielle Demeestere on Yosemite, and Coffee with James Franco

From Closing Night of the 2015 Slamdance Film Festival comes Yosemite, the feature debut from writer/director Gabrielle Demeestere, who discusses…

9 years ago
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  • How They Did It

Poetry in Motion: James Franco and 12 Students Create The Color of Time

It all started in a class James Franco was teaching at NYU's Graduate Film program. The topic was "How to…

9 years ago
  • Movie News

Review Round-up: Diana, Dallas Buyers Club, Sal, The Broken Circle Breakdown, Man of Tai Chi, and Ender’s Game

MovieMaker highlights the good and bad reviews of six films out in theatres this week. Beat the winter doldrums and…

11 years ago
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Tribeca 2013: Dance docs, war docs, Michael Haneke docs, and a few films that aren’t docs by Josh Ralske

Wading through the muck of Tribeca's programming is always a tricky business. It's gotten a bit easier in recent years,…

11 years ago
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  • Interviews

Narcotic Harmony: An American provocateur wages a war against the senses with Spring Breakers by Josh Ralske

I was never really a fan of Harmony Korine’s work. I saw Kids (directed by Larry Clark) and Gummo, and…

11 years ago
  • Articles - Directing

Things I’ve Learned: Harmony Korine

As Josh Ralske writes in his forthcoming MovieMaker interview... "I was never really a fan of Harmony Korine’s work. I…

11 years ago
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James Franco vs. the Fact Checkers Unit

Director Dan Beers' moviemaking success story began with his short film FCU: Fact Checkers Unit, which premiered at Sundance in…

12 years ago
  • Things Learned

Things I’ve Learned: Harmony Korine

Harmony Korine first gained notoriety at the age of 22, when his screenplay for Kids, about 24 hours in the…

16 years ago