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7 Most Intense Arguments in Movies, From Marriage Story to Goodfellas

If you love a good verbal sparring, you'll enjoy this list of the seven most intense arguments in movies.

11 months ago
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Inside Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese’s Decades-Long Quest to Make a George Gershwin Biopic

The Internet is littered with cinematic what-ifs: castings that almost happened, sequel ideas someone scotched, amazing-sounding pitches that proved to…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

The Real Driver in Green Book Appeared in Goodfellas, The Godfather and The Sopranos

Wondering what Viggo Mortensen's Green Book character, Frank Anthony Vallelonga, did after the film? The man better known as Tony…

4 years ago
  • Screenwriting

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.…

5 years ago
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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…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

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…

7 years ago
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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…

7 years ago
  • Fall 2016

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…

7 years ago
  • Things Learned

Paul Schrader: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker

Paul Schrader is learning a lot these days. Simultaneously excited about the future of moviemaking and pessimistic about its finances,…

7 years ago
  • Summer 2016

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…

8 years ago
  • Summer 2016

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…

8 years ago
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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…

8 years ago
  • Things Learned

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.…

10 years ago
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Holiday Subscription Giveaway: Signed, Screen-Printed Raging Bull Poster by Cult Artist Midnight Marauder

No fighting, kids. It's MovieMaker's holiday giveaway, and there's enough to go around. Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull is universally acclaimed…

10 years ago
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Grassroots Moviemaker: The Five Stages of Budget Grief

At some point in our moviemaking lives we’re all going to face the loss of something very dear to us.…

15 years ago
  • Things Learned

Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Thelma Schoonmaker

Academy Award-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker's long, presitgious career is one of Hollywood's most enduring, rivaled possibly by her longtime collaborator,…

17 years ago
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Comfortable State of Anxiety: An Interview with Martin Scorsese

A ramble with America’s Greatest Living Director about his long career and his new “eastern western,” Gangs of New York.…

22 years ago