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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Flash Forward: Grace Van Patten Takes a Leap into the Unknown in David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
Many actors will tell you that when you read a great script, you just know. But for Grace Van Patten, it was actually not knowing that...1Inside the Issue: Directing
Success in Succession: Matteo Garrone Shot Dogman Entirely in Sequence to Put Viewers in His Character’s Shoes
I wrote the script for my new film, Dogman, 12 years ago, and during those years I changed it many times, arriving at six or seven...Inside the Issue: How To
Journalism Plus: How Hail Satan?, The Brink, and Leaving Neverland Blend Truth-Seeking With Cinematic Storytelling
“Journalism Plus” is how Academy Award-winning moviemaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) characterizes making documentaries. If you’re a documentarian, you may not have a degree or credentials in...8