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  • Movie News

Netflix’s Sons of Sam Director Tells the Story of How He Met Maury Terry

If you consider yourself a true-crime fanatic, then you're probably quite familiar with David Berkowitz and the Son of Sam…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

How to Be Both: Antonio Banderas Gets a Long Overdue Retrospective Courtesy of New York’s Quad Cinema

“Is there something more horrible than that? The selfie?” Antonio Banderas asks cheekily, a little tired, but presiding in the…

5 years ago
  • Movie News

Brooklyn’s Better: Lytehouse Studio Offers Cutting-Edge Production Facilities Without Skyline-High Manhattan Rates

Even back then cheap apartments were hard to find in Manhattan,” says Peter MacNicol during his opening monologue in Sophie’s…

5 years ago
  • Directing

How They Did It: Turning Accidents Into Opportunities on Location in New York City to Make Here and Now

Getting the opportunity to shoot your first feature film in New York City is a dream come true—like being a…

5 years ago
  • Directing

The Artist and his Subject: Rebel in the Rye Capitalizes on Parallels between J.D. Salinger and Holden Caulfield

Danny Strong has acted in some of the most acclaimed television shows of the past two decades (Buffy the Vampire…

7 years ago
  • Directing

“Darkness on the Beach”: Writer-Director Eliza Hittman Chose 16mm to Help Create the Eerie New York of Beach Rats

In her second feature Beach Rats, writer-director Eliza Hittman has once again crafted an atmospheric coming-of-age story set in her…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

Threads of Melancholy: In Ensemble Piece Person to Person, Dustin Guy Defa Proves a Tonal Prowess

With his new ensemble comedy, Person to Person, Dustin Guy Defa seems poised to break through to a wider cultural…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

Getting With the Program: Quad Cinema Is the Latest Addition to a Growing Wave of NYC Indie Arthouse Exhibition

"The economics of an arthouse cinema are not kind, I'll admit," says C. Mason Wells, Director of Programming at Quad…

7 years ago
  • Movie News

Mastering Remote Moviemaking: How the Filmmakers Behind Akron Collaborated Across the Atlantic (Exclusive Clip)

Making a movie in one place is hard enough—imagine making one from either side of the Atlantic ocean. Akron co-directors…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

The Brothers Grit: An Interview with Heaven Knows What Directors Ben and Josh Safdie

Heaven Knows What has texture. You practically feel the coarse damp of rainy-pavement residue scrape between your fingertips as you…

9 years ago
  • Producing

Dream Big, Plan Bigger: Winston Baker’s Film Finance Forum East

The aptly named Dream Downtown Hotel, in the hip meatpacking district of New York City, hosted Winston Baker's 7th Annual…

9 years ago
  • Cinematography
  • Interviews

Funny, with Restraint: How DP Sam Levy Shot While We’re Young

“I was lucky to grow up with music and have a movie buff dad who’d tell me, ‘You need to…

9 years ago
  • Directing
  • MM Guide 2014

Outside Chances: How to Shoot Outdoors, by the Team of The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby

Shooting outdoors anywhere is submitting yourself to Murphy’s Law, but in and around New York City—as I’m sure every moviemaker…

9 years ago
  • Directing
  • How They Did It

How They Did It: Turning Problems into Opportunities on Amira & Sam

Writer/director and New York Army National Guard officer, Sean Mullin, makes his feature debut with Amira & Sam, a film…

9 years ago
  • Articles
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Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker in 2014, Top Big Cities: #2. New York

It’s MovieMaker’s 2014 edition of the Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker! We’re counting down through our Top…

10 years ago
  • Documentary

Strongman Documentary Bending Steel Flexes Perceptions of Coney Island

The strongman documentary Bending Steel is an inspiring movie from filmmakers Dave Carroll and Ryan Scafuro that explores the life…

11 years ago