Philip Seymour Hoffman

  • Interviews

Pitch Perfect: Seven Lessons on Getting Your Actor to Nail That Tricky Accent, From Dialect Coach Erik Singer

Having come from an acting background himself, dialect coach Erik Singer understands the integral role accent and speech play in…

7 years ago
  • Directing

Reels On Wheels: Watch How Spike Lee’s Dolly Shots Glide Characters Through Their Frenzied Environments (Video)

The dolly shot: It's an eye-popping technique. The characters it frames seem to float through the scene, divorced from their…

7 years ago
  • Criterion Crash Course

Criterion Crash Course: Moviemaking Lessons From Criterion’s Punch-Drunk Love

Whether you’re a moviemaker, critic or devoted film collector, lovers of cinema can all agree: A Criterion Collection release is…

7 years ago
  • Acting

Quick Change Artist: Costume is the Key to Accessing and Discarding Character, Says the Star of Hunky Dory

“Clothes make the man.” — Mark Twain When director Michael Curtis Johnson and I decided to make Hunky Dory, we…

8 years ago