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  • Movie News

The Taking Director: Don’t Cancel Problematic Westerns — Recontextualize Them

Alexandre O. Philippe didn't make his documentary The Taking in hopes of canceling old Western movies. Instead, he wants to…

2 years ago
  • Interviews

George Romero: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker (From the MovieMaker Archives)

This filmmaking advice from George Romero was originally published on May 26, 2010. He died on July 16, 2017. Romero's…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

The Great Bogdanovich: The Moviemaker’s Varied Film Career Has Always Celebrated His Idols

Peter Bogdanovich has enjoyed a remarkably balanced career as both a film historian and acclaimed moviemaker. His latest documentary, The Great…

6 years ago
  • Directing

The Mythical West: The Zellner Brothers on Playing with Genre Tropes and Letting Humor Come Intuitively with Damsel

From Tarantino, to the Coen Brothers, to Kelly Reichardt, the western is so entrenched in cinematic history that it's become a…

6 years ago
  • Directing

A Living Thing: How Paul Thomas Anderson Makes Emotions Visual

With Phantom Thread giving Paul Thomas Anderson his first Best Director nomination since 2007, the American auteur has scored his biggest success…

6 years ago
  • Directing

Art of Darkness: Hostiles‘ Scott Cooper on Genre, Race, and the American Soul

“Life is nasty and brutish and short.” “Thomas Hobbes said that,” he explains. It’s the perfect bookend to our conversation…

6 years ago
  • First Draft

First Draft: Seeing Is Conceiving. Build a Blueprint to Work Visuals Into Your Screenplay

In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Writing visually is something a lot…

7 years ago
  • Best Of

ICYMI: The Best of March 2017 on Moviemaker.com

For the moviemakers featured in our slate of content throughout March 2017, resourcefulness was the name of the game. Whether…

7 years ago
  • Moviemaking

100 Seconds of Greatness: Analyzing the First Scene of John Ford’s The Searchers

What made John Ford a great director? Let’s try an experiment to help answer that question. Let’s look at a…

7 years ago
  • Winter 2017

Penetrating Images: I Am Not Your Negro Remixes James Baldwin with America’s Tradition of On-Screen Racism

When Raoul Peck was eight, his family fled Haiti for the Congo to escape the tyranny of then-dictator François Duvalier.…

7 years ago
  • Things Learned

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…

9 years ago
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  • Festivals

Park City 2014: Sundance Film Festival Diary, Entry Four by Jeff Meyers

The final entry of Park City correspondent Jeff Meyers' Sundance Film Festival Diary sees him working hard to squeeze in…

10 years ago