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How Waves Director Trey Edward Shults ‘Cheated’ for His Film
Waves writer-director Trey Edward Shults says he employed a trick familiar to anyone who’s ever had to turn in a writing assignment that is too...
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How Thanksgiving Brought Queen & Slim Creators Lena Waithe and Melina Matsoukas Together
Lena Waithe and Melina Matsoukas, the writer and director, respectively, of Queen & Slim, began their collaboration on one of the most memorable TV episodes...
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Mr. Rogers’ Widow Didn’t Want a Saintly Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Portrayal of Her Husband
Families of public figures sometimes object to movies that portray their loved one as anything but saintly. But that wasn’t the case with the Mr....
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How Dave Chappelle Inspired a Wesley Snipes Scene in Dolemite Is My Name
Dave Chappelle, it turns out, was the inspiration for a memorable scene in Dolemite Is My Name in which Wesley Snipes’ character, D’Urville Martin, questions...
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Edward Norton: No One Works Better With Composers Than Wes Anderson
Edward Norton says most film scores are introduced to the moviemaking process much too late. The only director who has cracked the code to working...
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Kasi Lemmons: Harriet Is ‘a Savior Movie and Not a Slavery Movie’
Kasi Lemmons didn’t want her new film Harriet to focus on the physical violence of slavery. She wanted it to focus on the woman who...
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How Burning Cane’s Phillip Youmans Became an Award-Winning Moviemaker at 19
Phillip Youmans was a teenage actor working on a low-budget superhero movie when he noticed he wasn’t as interested in his acting as he was...
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Parasite Director Bong Joon-ho Explains His Fixation With Shooting in Tight Spaces
When I arrived to interview Parasite director Bong Joon-ho at a hotel in Beverly Hills, a member of his team informed me he had been...
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A Hidden Life Star Valerie Pachner on Making Soup With Terrence Malick
Every actor who works with Terrence Malick has a different description of the director’s naturalistic, organic approach to filmmaking. For A Hidden Life star Valerie...
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From Dolemite Is My Name to Boogie Nights: 13 Great Movies About Making Movies
Dolemite Is My Name is the story of how Rudy Ray Moore became Dolemite, but also of how Dolemite became a movie star. The new...
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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...