All posts tagged "Martin Scorsese"
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Mads Mikkelsen
From Star Wars to Marvel, from prestige TV (Hannibal) to high-profile Oscar contenders (At Eternity’s Gate), Mads Mikkelsen can be seen stretching his dramatic skills... -
Simply Good: Alice Rohrwacher on Casting Off YouTube and Having a Wolf on Set for Happy as Lazzaro
Divided into two distinctively wondrous halves—one pastoral/one urban—modern parable Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro felice) is a new stroke of genius from Italian... -
Hearing What’s In Your Head: Kenneth Lonergan On His Process of Writing As a Director
Kenneth Lonergan is a playwright, screenwriter, and director best-known for his searing Oscar-winning original screenplay for Manchester by the Sea. He was... -
Labors of Love: With the Robert Pattinson-Starring Good Time, the Safdie Brothers Have Officially Made It
On the back of the door to the office of Elara Pictures, the production company created and run by fraternal filmmaking team... -
Shine a Light: Scorsese’s Film Foundation Leads a Charge to Preserve 50 Endangered Gems of Africa’s Cinema History
Having touched on the rich cultural heritage of West Africa with “Feel Like Going Home,” an episode in his 2003 documentary series... -
Fight of a Lifetime: Making The Bronx Bull Taught Its Director the Keys to a Knockout Biopic
“It’s better to be feared than to be loved,” goes the old adage—paraphrased from Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince by a world-weary mob boss... -
Flash Forward: Everybody Loves Somebody Star Karla Souza Has Ambition to Spare
Karla Souza is uninterested in pursuing work that perpetuates outdated depictions of Latinas in entertainment, thank you very much. The promising Mexican-born... -
15 Essential Empathetic Films: Movies to Change Minds, Mold Moral Consciousness and Heal the World
In Steve James’ beautiful documentary Life Itself (2014), these are the first words we hear from critic Roger Ebert, whose life and... -
First Draft: Want Hollywood’s Attention? Write a Showcase Short
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. It’s how Spielberg, Coppola, Lucas and Scorsese... -
All-Seeing Eye: God’s Front-Row Seat in the Films of Martin Scorsese (Video)
Many of Martin Scorsese’s characters fancy themselves masters of their own universe. But what makes them so sure? As we’ve learned from...
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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...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...