All posts tagged "Melissa Leo"
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Hands Up: Spotlight on Whistler Film Festival 2017
While accepting an award from the Alliance of Women Film Journalists at the Whistler Film Festival in 2013, DIY indie filmmaking queen... -
How They Did It: This Director Over-Prepared in Order to Get Novitiate Shot Before a Hard Deadline
The greatest challenge for me in shooting Novitiate was the limited amount of days we had—28, to be exact—to pull off such a performance-heavy... -
Tribeca West for This Jersey Fest: Northeast Film Festival 2016
They’ve begun calling it Tribeca West. Not West Coast, though: Teaneck is a beautiful suburb just west of the New York metropolitan... -
Prisoners and Acting: An Interview with Melissa Leo
MovieMaker spoke to Melissa Leo, one of 2013’s hardest-working actresses (she turned in performances in six of the year’s releases, including Oblivion... -
Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Brad Gann
Brad Gann is the writer and director Black Irish, the 2007 film starring Brendan Gleason and Melissa Leo. MovieMaker interviewed Brad Gann...
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Sydney on the Map: To Land Breakout Roles, Sydney Sweeney Draws Her Own Maps of the Characters She Inhabits
A reverent initiate of a patriarchal regime; a disturbed young psychiatric hospital ward; a sexually questioning teen with a flair for the dramatic; a mysterious denizen...Inside the Issue: Directing
Think Like A Photographer: Generation Wealth’s Lauren Greenfield Shares How Still Techniques Make Better Movies
The biggest change I experienced when I went from making pictures to making films was the sense of an arc—of creating a story over time, and...Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: Casting Unknowns Was Key to Finding the Laughs and Lived-In Feel of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade
Before I directed my first film, Eighth Grade, I had heard that 90 percent of directing is casting. I’m sure there are other directors who weigh...2