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How Dave Chappelle Inspired a Dolemite Is My Name Scene With Wesley Snipes

Dave Chappelle, it turns out, was the inspiration for a memorable scene in Dolemite Is My Name in which Wesley…

4 years ago
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Just Mercy Is Very Accurate, Because It Had to Be

Just Mercy is available via Video on Demand today, so we're re-sharing this  interview with director Destin Daniel Cretton about…

4 years ago
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  • Podcasts

Rishi Rajani’s Plan to Help Outsiders Break Into Hollywood (Podcast)

Rishi Rajani knows what it's like to climb the rungs in Hollywood: He rose from an agency mailroom to become…

4 years ago
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  • Podcasts

2020 Movies We’re Excited About (Podcast)

2020 movies have a lot to live up to—2019's movies were some of the best in years. On the latest…

4 years ago
  • Festivals

Parasite Fans, Don’t Miss 2013’s Human Capital

For the many fans of Parasite, may we recommend Human Capital? The 2013 Italian film, showcased this week at the…

4 years ago
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Watching 1917 in 2020, When Our Lives Are More Edited Than Ever

I watched 1917, the Sam Mendes' World War I epic that appears to unfold in one long, single-shot, in a…

4 years ago
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Margot Robbie Talks Bombshell

Margot Robbie found a sneakily brilliant way to research Kayla, the young Fox News employee she plays in Bombshell. "I…

4 years ago
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Why I Love Star Wars, by Rise of Skywalker’s Victoria Mahoney

Victoria Mahoney, the second unit director of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, is, remarkably, the first female director in the…

4 years ago
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How Two Popes Screenwriter Anthony McCarten Balances Heavy Themes and Humor

Anthony McCarten has a big surprise on the very first page of his The Two Popes script: It's funny. The…

4 years ago
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Black Christmas Director Sophia Takal on Her Story of ‘Misogyny, Lurking in the Shadows’

Bob Clark’s Black Christmas, released days before Christmas 1974, largely invented the slasher genre. But what struck director Sophia Takal about…

4 years ago
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Bret Easton Ellis Reviews Likely Oscar Contenders

Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho and most recently the memoir White, has become one of our most interesting…

4 years ago
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How Citizen K Director Alex Gibney Gets the Toughest Interview Subjects to Open Up

Alex Gibney, director of the new documentary Citizen K, believes most people want to tell their stories. “The ‘trick,’ if…

4 years ago
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Knives and Skin Is Jennifer Reeder’s ‘Feminist as F—‘ Debut Feature

Raven Whitley remembers her first thought as she read the script for Knives and Skin: "This seems uncomfortable." In the…

4 years ago
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The Waves Soundtrack Decoded by Director Trey Edward Shults, Song by Song

“For a long time I’ve loved movies whose ebbs and flows are driven by needle drops,” director Trey Edward Shults…

4 years ago
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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…

4 years ago
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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…

4 years ago
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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…

4 years ago
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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…

4 years ago
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El Camino: 3 Breaking Bad Mysteries It Solves, and 3 Questions It Leaves Hanging

(Spoiler warning: This contains El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie spoilers. Don't read on if you haven't seen it. There…

5 years ago
  • Summer 2019

The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2019

Let's talk about the coolest film festivals in the world. And if you think it's easy being cool, think again.…

5 years ago
  • Summer 2019

Book Review: The Art and Craft of TV Directing: Conversations with Episodic Television Directors

What do you do when your career no longer fulfills you? Jim Hemphill, an award-winning screenwriter and director, faced that…

5 years ago