All posts tagged "Jean Renoir"
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Blow by Blow: How Francois Truffaut and His New Wave Contemporaries Deconstructed Filmmaking
As one of the founding fathers of the French New Wave, Francois Truffaut used cinema to capture “truth 24 times per second,”... -
Politically Personal: From Nowhere’s Director on Bringing Out the Humanity of His Undocumented Characters
I never thought of myself as a particularly political person, and I certainly never thought of myself as a political film maker.... -
The 25 Most Influential Directors of All Time
As time passes, new models inevitably emerge. In art, politics and history, each generation finds its own heroes. In the motion picture...
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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...Inside the Issue: Directing
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...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...