All posts tagged "Kristen Stewart"
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Cannes Film Festival 2018: Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Kristen Stewart, and More in Our Portrait Gallery
What do red carpet selfies, Netflix films, and pre-premiere advance screenings have in common? They were all roundly banned at the 71st annual Cannes Film...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Olivier Assayas
Some 40 years into his moviemaking journey, Olivier Assayas shares why he’s still asking questions, trying new things, and messing things up—and why you should,...
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The Great Invisible: With Personal Shopper, Olivier Assayas Makes Serious Stabs at the Supernatural
Olivier Assayas’ Personal Shopper is an attempt to evaluate cinema’s potential to represent and reflect upon the invisible. For the French auteur, it’s a continuation...
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Crowd Teasers: Emotional Distress is Kind of Kristen Stewart’s Thing in Personal Shopper Trailer
The trailer for Olivier Assayas’ Personal Shopper is all about acceleration. And for good reason: When a film’s starting point seems to be a character...
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Op Ed: A Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk Post-Production Crewmember Defends 4K 3-D 120 FPS
As of today, Ang Lee’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk can be seen in two theaters in America in its full quality: 4K 3-D 120...
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“We Don’t Have Time to Test Our Lenses. We’ve Gotta Shoot Film”: Kelly Reichardt Talks Making Certain Women
Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women is a departure for her in some ways. It’s the first feature she’s worked on without a writing partner since her...
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Eye Piece: How Dystopian Romance Equals Was Lit Entirely by Luminescent LEDs
As a cinematographer, I have made several movies with director Drake Doremus, including Like Crazy and Breathe In. Those films had been shot with a...
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Sundance 2016: See Indie Film’s Movers and Shakers in Jeff Vespa’s Beautiful @Portraits
Jeff Vespa has been the Sundance Film Festival’s official photographer since 2003, a post that gives him the unusual privilege of capturing his mega-famous subjects...
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An Introduction to Indie Costume Design: How to Pull Off Spot-on Costuming Without Breaking the Bank
You want your film to look like it was dressed by Edith Head or Colleen Atwood, with eye-popping yet believable clothing that tells a story...
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The End of Your Trope: Three Gendered Horror Conventions and Ideas for Putting Them to Death
When MovieMaker first asked me to write a piece about female tropes in the movies, I misread the email and thought they wanted a travel...
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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...
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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...