All posts tagged "musicals"
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Musical, Flesh-Eating Mermaids in 1980s Poland: With The Lure, Agnieszka Smoczyńska Holds Nothing Back
In reference to unusual releases, the phrase “unlike anything you’ve seen before” gets bandied around a little too often. Most times, the... -
The Camera is a Dancer: DP Linus Sandgren Walks Us Through How He and Damien Chazelle Shot La La Land
Colors pop like old-fashioned jelly beans in La La Land, Damien Chazelle’s musical about struggling artists Mia (Emma Stone) and Sebastian (Ryan... -
How to Make an Indie Musical: Tips from Life of an Actress: The Musical
On December 19, 2014, Life of an Actress: The Musical will open at the Quad Cinema in New York and the Laemmle...
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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...