All posts tagged "Nicole Holofcener"
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A Teller’s Market: How To Tell Your Own Story and Lay Bare Your Personal Brand
Tasked with unpacking the most overlooked, underestimated part of film marketing and distribution, I considered examples of what previous MovieMaker writers had discussed in these...
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Nicole Holofcener: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Nicole Holofcener’s films often focus on her fumbling protagonists’ neurotic tendencies, but her approach to moviemaking is a rejection of hopeless self-absorption. Fittingly, Holofcener grew...
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“It’s About Listening:” Amy Berg Enters Narrative Filmmaking with Every Secret Thing
Academy Award-nominated director Amy Berg’s new feature, Every Secret Thing centers around two young girls who kidnap and kill the infant granddaughter of the first...
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The Pretty One: An interview with writer-director Jenée LaMarque
Writer-director Jenée LaMarque’s heartfelt, clever feature debut, The Pretty One, tells the story of Laurel, a shy, sensitive young woman who has always remained in...
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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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Inside the Issue: Acting
Taylor Russell on Waves and Why She’s OK With Being an Adult Who Plays High School Students
In director Trey Edward Shults’ Waves, Taylor Russell plays the younger sister of Kelvin Harrison Jr., even though she’s five days older than him in real life. In fact,...
Inside the Issue: Directing
Rob Zombie: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Rob Zombie still can’t let go of some of his past off-screen nightmares. “After I finished Halloween II, I was so beat up by the process that I hated...
Inside the Issue: How To
Edward Norton Walks Us Through Every Part of Making Motherless Brooklyn
Edward Norton is the best possible person to explain each stage of the moviemaking process for his new drama Motherless Brooklyn—he’s the film’s writer, director and lead actor. For...