All posts tagged "Michael Fassbender"
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Persistence Pays Off: Alien: Covenant’s Katherine Waterston is Finally Ready For Her Close-Up
Do a cursory scroll through Katherine Waterston’s IMDb page, and you’ll find someone who—on the surface—is in the midst of a moment. It’s the type...
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ICYMI: The Best of March 2017 on Moviemaker.com
For the moviemakers featured in our slate of content throughout March 2017, resourcefulness was the name of the game. Whether it’s the cast and crew...
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Devilish Charisma: Michael Fassbender on Making Song to Song With Terrence Malick and Emmanuel Lubezki
Overdosing on his on own ambition, confronted with the shattered reality of a broken brotherly bond and a slew of unsatisfying affairs, Michael Fassbender’s Cook...
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Sharp Shooting: Assassin’s Creed’s Director and DP Reveal the Fundamentals of Effective Cinematography
If your list of top moviemaking concerns places items such as “performance” and “on-set rapport” above “camera choice” and “format,” you might feel out of...
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“Every Movie I Make, I Commit My Entire World:” Derek Cianfrance Talks The Light Between Oceans
It’s just plain fun to watch Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander, whose real-life romance is the stuff of celebrity gossip fodder, fall in love against...
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A Set Fit For a King: Nine Production Design Tips from Macbeth Show that Economical Can Also Mean Beautiful
“Limitations should be viewed with an eye for opportunity.” I was taught that early in my career. Of course, it was those who doled out...
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Members Only: A Guide to Onscreen Peen with the Directors of The Final Member
The Final Member, a feature documentary by Canadian directors Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math, is the story of Sigurður ”Siggi” Hjartarson, curator of the Icelandic...
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Review: 12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen
12 Years a Slave Week continues with MovieMaker’s Editor’s Weekend Pick, in which Kelly Leow attempts to express the poignant, brutal experience of watching Steve...
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2013 Toronto International Film Festival Diary, Day Three: Unforgiven, Dallas Buyers Club, Enough Said, The Double
MovieMaker’s latest dispatch from the Toronto International Film Festival 2013, courtesy of Jeff Meyers. On Day Three, our intrepid correspondent discusses critical ennui, the micro-budget...
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2013 Toronto International Film Festival Diary, Day Two: Like Father, Like Son, Le Week-end, Labor Day, 12 Years a Slave
Toronto International Film Festival 2013 correspondent Jeff Meyers continues his screening diary in this installment, covering screenings of Like Father, Like Son, Le Week-end, Labor...
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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...