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Rian Johnson talks Poker Face, with Natasha Lyonne
January 27, 2023
Rian Johnson reveals how Poker Face, his new Peacock series starring Natasha Lyonne, plumbs his love for '70s detective. We're…
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February 10, 2021
In I Blame Society, writer-director Gillian Wallace Horvat stars as filmmaker "Gillian" who murders people and films their deaths.
May 22, 2018
Throughout the process, moviemaker Matthew Porterfield become committed to the idea of using mostly diegetic sound in my films. He's…
April 28, 2018
On the eve of Alan Rudolph’s first ever retrospective (now playing at NYC's Quad Cinema), Keith Carradine sat down with…
November 23, 2017
This year the fest seems to take a step further in that regard with strong efforts from auteur favorites, genre…
November 8, 2017
2017 AFI Fest (November 9-16) director of programming Lane Kneedler comments on fest highlights, including films from Haneke, del Toro,…
March 20, 2017
Uncomfortable and hilarious, On the Rocks is a striking new independent production with two talented directors, Alex Kavutskiy and Ariel…
March 6, 2017
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Plot and character-related exposition in
February 20, 2017
Watch this brief history of Robert Altman's work as a television director for some insight into how he developed his…
November 22, 2016
The deceptively simple Punch-Drunk Love packs a formal wallop. Let’s talk about the elements that tie it all together, in…
October 31, 2016
Take a break from crafting that last-second DIY costume to revisit the best articles of October 2016 on moviemaker.com, collected…
October 19, 2016
Criterion Crash Course, our series on new Criterion Collection titles, draws moviemaking lessons from Robert Altman's "anti-Western," McCabe & Mrs.…
July 24, 2008
Though a handful of TV adaptations have triumphed and achieved critical acclaim, many television-to-film adaptations fail miserably.