All posts tagged "raging bull"
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Hearing What’s In Your Head: Kenneth Lonergan On His Process of Writing As a Director
Kenneth Lonergan is a playwright, screenwriter, and director best-known for his searing Oscar-winning original screenplay for Manchester by the Sea. He was... -
Hollywood’s Four Classic Narrative Types, Part I: When the Bad Guys Win
Cinematic stories give lessons on human thought and behavior. This is their most basic social purpose. The story places a certain type... -
Fight of a Lifetime: Making The Bronx Bull Taught Its Director the Keys to a Knockout Biopic
“It’s better to be feared than to be loved,” goes the old adage—paraphrased from Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince by a world-weary mob boss... -
All-Seeing Eye: God’s Front-Row Seat in the Films of Martin Scorsese (Video)
Many of Martin Scorsese’s characters fancy themselves masters of their own universe. But what makes them so sure? As we’ve learned from... -
Something to Believe In: Bleed For This’ Ben Younger, Miles Teller and Aaron Eckhart Will Their Way to Greatness
“I don’t believe in God,” actor Javier Bardem once said, “I believe in… Al Pacino.” For many of us, movies are almost... -
Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Paul Schrader
Paul Schrader is learning a lot these days. Simultaneously excited about the future of moviemaking and pessimistic about its finances, he recognizes... -
Aging Bull: Robert De Niro Remains Ferocious as He Spars with Édgar Ramírez in Hands of Stone
I had just arrived on the Croisette for this year’s Cannes Film Festival and was having lunch at my regular table at... -
Independence Day Offer: Celebrate the Boxing Movie with This Gorgeous Poster
The boxing movie. Is there a more American genre? Sure, our Summer issue cover film, Hands of Stone, is about Panamian boxer... -
MovieMaker Advent Calendar: Two-For-One Subscriptions, Plus a Free Gift (New Items Announced Weekly)
“Of all the magazines in all the towns in all the world, she subscribes to MovieMaker.” Rick thinks a double subscription to... -
Things I’ve Learned: Thelma Schoonmaker
This Wisdom Wednesday, legendary editor Thelma Schoonmaker shares the lessons she’s learned from over three decades in the cutting room. If the...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Mads Mikkelsen
From Star Wars to Marvel, from prestige TV (Hannibal) to high-profile Oscar contenders (At Eternity’s Gate), Mads Mikkelsen can be seen stretching his dramatic skills across the board these...1Inside the Issue: Directing
The 2019 MovieMaker Sundance Survey: Eleven Sundance-Selected Films, and Their Mountain-Bound Makers
The 35th Sundance Film Festival received a record-breaking 14,000-plus submissions, with 4,000-plus feature-length films among them. Of the 112 features selected, 45 of their makers were first-timers. The fest’s...1Inside the Issue: How To
Breaking and Entering, Part One: How To Shoot Down Self-Doubt and Pay the Rent While Making It In the Film Industry
Becoming a moviemaker seemed like an impossibly ambitious goal when I was growing up. I was living in Brazil, watching bootleg copies of David Cronenberg films and, with...