La La Land

  • Acting

Stone Cold: Emma Stone on Her Charming, Devious Turn in The Favourite

The first thing you notice about Emma Stone are her eyes, green and enormous. But she squinted almost as soon…

5 years ago
  • MM Guide 2019

Moonshot Moviemaking: To Cut Outside the Box, Live an Outside-the-Edit-Bay Life and Treasure All Your Footage

Big league moviemaking is a fast-paced sport. With every at-bat moviemakers are expected to be able to square up a…

6 years ago
  • Movie News

Crowdfunder Pick: "The Guiding Light"

Crowdfunding has become an invaluable tool for the indie filmmaker seeking funds for the start or completion of a project.…

6 years ago
  • First Draft

First Draft: Wield These Tips To Conceive, Write, and Format Your Feature-Length Musical

In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. You have a great story,…

6 years ago
  • Editing

Moonlight Co-Editor Nat Sanders Talks Quitting Your Day Job, Disagreeing With Directors and That Awkward Oscars Moment

Though his nomination for a Best Editing Oscar for Moonlight wasn't as monumental as his co-editor Joi McMillon's—she was the first African-American to…

7 years ago
  • Moviemaking

How to Always Deliver: Denise Di Novi on Gilding a Package, Dealing With the Artistic Temperament and Sniffing Out Hits

Denise Di Novi has forged a moviemaking career by avoiding the kind of carelessness that often bankrupted her peers. Instead,…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

Getting With the Program: Quad Cinema Is the Latest Addition to a Growing Wave of NYC Indie Arthouse Exhibition

"The economics of an arthouse cinema are not kind, I'll admit," says C. Mason Wells, Director of Programming at Quad…

7 years ago
  • First Draft

First Draft: Wield These Wordsmithing Weapons to Beat Down Screenwriting Clichés

In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Plot and character-related exposition in…

7 years ago
  • Movie News

ICYMI: The Best of February 2017 on Moviemaker.com

February 2017 was filled with plenty of surprise and controversy. If only the 2016 presidential election had had the same…

7 years ago
  • Festivals

Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2017: La La Land Stars Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling are the Perfect Team

Range is one of a performer’s most valuable assets. A Jewish neo-Nazi; a drug-addicted teacher; a lonely man attached to…

7 years ago
  • Movie News

ICYMI: The Best of December 2016 on Moviemaker.com

What do winter weather, the holiday season and the end of 2016 have in common? They're all pretty damn cool.…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

The Camera is a Dancer: DP Linus Sandgren Walks Us Through How He and Damien Chazelle Shot La La Land

Colors pop like old-fashioned jelly beans in La La Land, Damien Chazelle's musical about struggling artists Mia (Emma Stone) and…

7 years ago
  • Festivals

Telluride Film Festival 2016 Line-Up: What’s Playing in the Mountains?

The 43rd Telluride Film Festival whirs into action from September 2-5, 2016, in Telluride, Colorado. As per tradition, the festival…

8 years ago