All posts tagged "Miami"
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The Beach Bum: Harmony Korine Talks His Iconic Music Choices and Matthew McConaughey’s Rogue Poet Moondog
Describing Harmony Korine’s The Beach Bum is a lot like SNL’s Stefon gleefully listing the most outlandish attributes of the hottest new club. The sun-soaked stoner comedy from the...
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The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2019: Big Cities
“The film business as we know it is never going back to Los Angeles,” director Joe Carnahan reportedly said during a recent press conference. “It’s...
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The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2018: Big Cities
You can’t choose your family, but you can choose where to find your film family. They’re the PAs you’ll be spending those long, languid afternoons...
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Eye Piece: Moonlight DP James Laxton Illuminates Miami’s Bold, Blue, Beautiful Darkness
Following the life of Chiron, a young man coming of age in Miami during the “War on Drugs,” Moonlight is sensitive and subtle—yet director Barry...
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Festival Spotlight: HollyShorts Film Festival shows indie heart
Here’s a recipe for a successful short film festival: Throw two ambitious 24-year-olds, a phone call, a cheaply-rentable theater, and a projector together and mix...
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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...