All posts tagged "Mark Duplass"
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Like Brothers: Mark and Jay Duplass Explore Their Fraternal Filmmaking Bond in New Memoir
“How do you make it in this brutal fucking business?” This is the question that indie moviemaking mainstays Mark and Jay Duplass... -
Duck Test: How Miguel Arteta and Alia Shawkat Made Their Taut Relationship Drama Duck Butter in 24 Hours
For most of her acting career thus far, Alia Shawkat has turned in indelible performances in supporting roles that enrich whatever story... -
Outside In: Lynn Shelton and Jay Duplass on Rehearsals, Sex Scenes, What They Learned Working in TV, and More
When I met with Lynn Shelton after the premiere of Outside In at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival, I facetiously asked who... -
Embrace Horror and Horror Will Embrace You: Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass’ Intro to MM’s 2018 Horror Guide
For our third edition of MovieMaker‘s Guide to Making Horror Movies, we asked indie multi-hyphenates Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass, who have... -
MovieMaker’s 2018 Guide to Making Horror Movies eBook: Now on Sale!
MovieMaker Magazine’s 2018 Guide to Making Horror Movies is the third in our annual series. This year, we invited Creep 2 collaborators Mark Duplass... -
Double Debut: DP-Turned-Director Alex Lehmann Impresses With Blue Jay and Asperger’s Are Us
Alex Lehmann’s career path has taken him from camera operator to director, and he is playing both roles simultaneously. And, remarkably, this fall... -
How to Get More From Actors: Rainbow Time’s Linas Phillips Asked Jay Duplass, Melanie Lynskey and More
Don’t actors know that you have a million other things to do on your movie? They’re not the center of the universe!... -
Writing for Improvisation: Is This an Oxymoron?
Improvisation in the service of making movies can allow for an organic and naturalistic quality of performance that is otherwise extremely difficult,... -
Independence Transcendent: With the iPhone-Shot Tangerine, Sean Baker Makes it Look Easy
If the phrase “independent film” has in recent years felt problematic to you, with one-time rebels “going studio” and A-listers populating your... -
The Generic Stuff: How to Make Film Genre Work, Or Not Work, For You
Talking about film genre is an exercise in stilted speech. Ever had one of those conversations, trying to describe a particular film?...
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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...Inside the Issue: Directing
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...Inside the Issue: How To
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...