All posts tagged "Larry Fessenden"
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How They Did It: First-Time Director Ana Asensio Split Most Beautiful Island Into Two Stylistically Distinct Halves
Making Most Beautiful Island was my first time writing a script and directing a film. Up to this point in my career, I had focused...
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The Family That Makes Movies Together Stays Together: Working With Your Kids? It’s Possible, Say These Clans
When veteran moviemaker Larry Fessenden was shooting his 2001 feature Wendigo in upstate New York, his wife, director Beck Underwood, brought their newly born son,...
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enter Fessenden on Festivals: Indie Horror’s Larry Fessenden Reflects on the Fests that Shaped His Career
Ah, film festivals, the gateway to distribution for an independent film. When I was starting out in the late ’80s and early ’90s, there was...
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Best of 2014: 12 Articles to Sum Up the Year in MovieMaker
To ring in the new year here at MovieMaker, we’re doing a little bit of a 2014 in Review thing, which means we’ll be revisiting...
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Horror Stories: Examining the Business of Genre Filmmaking
A decade ago, the primary focus of independent horror moviemakers was making a good horror movie, knowing that if they did their job well, they...
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My New Film: American Jesus Is Not A Horror Movie
Larry Fessenden, producer of the new documentary American Jesus, explains why Glass Eye Pix became involved in Aram Garriga’s exploration of the sometimes bizarre relationship between...
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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...