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The Taking Westerns Monument Valley alexandre o. philippe
May 29, 2022
The Taking director Alexandre O. Philippe examines the problematic history of Western cinema — but he doesn't want to cancel…
George Romero
June 12, 2021
George Romero scared and enlightened audiences for five decades with his unique brand of socially-conscious fright films.
September 28, 2018
Acclaimed film historian and moviemaker Peter Bogdanovich's latest doc, The Great Buster: A Celebration, is a jubilant tribute to Buster…
July 11, 2018
The Zellner brothers (David and Nathan) spoke with MovieMaker about taking on the western genre with their latest, the Robert…
Paul Thomas Anderson Phillip Seymour Hoffman Black Panther
March 3, 2018
With Phantom Thread giving Paul Thomas Anderson his first Best Director nomination since 2007, the American auteur has further cemented himself as…
December 27, 2017
“Life is nasty and brutish and short.” “Thomas Hobbes said that,” explains Scott Cooper, the director of possibly the most…
May 11, 2017
Knowing when a visual is appropriate is just as important as the description itself. Here are the dos and do…
April 3, 2017
For the moviemakers featured in our slate of content throughout March 2017, resourcefulness was the name of the game. Whether
March 13, 2017
John Ford's The Searchers effectively depicts romance while hardly showing any intimacy at all. This breakdown of the film's first…
January 30, 2017
You’re likely familiar with many of the events that are covered in Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro, but still,…
June 7, 2015
Think of essential American cinema and Peter Bogdanovich comes immediately to mind: doggedly independent, sharply intelligent, and a lifelong cinephile.
January 27, 2014
The final entry of Park City correspondent Jeff Meyers' Sundance Film Festival Diary sees him working hard to squeeze in…