Robert Altman

  • Interviews

We Gently Interrogate Poker Face Creator Rian Johnson, Laid-Back ’70s Detective Style

Rian Johnson’s new Peacock show Poker Face sees the director plumb his passion for a TV genre that hasn’t gotten…

1 year ago
  • Movie News

I Blame Society Director-Star Gillian Wallace Horvat on Making a Found Footage Film That Doesn’t Cheat

Gillian Wallace Horvat is the co-writer, director and star of I Blame Society, about an ambitious filmmaker who realizes she's…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

Settling the Score: Director Matthew Porterfield on Selecting and Syncing Perfect Songs for Sollers Point

I’ve been committed to the idea of using mostly diegetic sound in my films. It’s not that I’m against score,…

6 years ago
  • Other

“Matters of the Heart”: Alan Rudolph and Keith Carradine Reflect on Their 40 Year Working Relationship

Beginning his career as an A.D. on the sets of his mentor Robert “Bob” Altman’s The Long Goodbye, California Split,…

6 years ago
  • Festivals

AFI Fest 2017 Wrap: Team MovieMaker’s Favorites From Another Characteristically Strong Showing

Due to its placement in late Fall and the strength of its programming team, AFI Fest has always felt like…

6 years ago
  • Festivals

2017 AFI Fest Preview: 10 Films and Filmmakers From This Year’s Line-Up You Should Track Down

Returning for the 31st round, AFI Fest continues to have some of the most striking, innovative, and exciting filmmaking in…

6 years ago
  • Interviews

Improvised Anxiety: On the Rocks is a Painfully Hilarious Microbudget Feature

Incredibly uncomfortable and relentlessly hilarious, On the Rocks, the first feature from Alex Kavutskiy and Ariel Gardner, is a tragicomedy…

7 years ago
  • First Draft

First Draft: Wield These Wordsmithing Weapons to Beat Down Screenwriting Clichés

In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Plot and character-related exposition in…

7 years ago
  • Movie News

TV Training Ground: Watch the Small Screen Television Work That Shaped Robert Altman Into a Big Screen Auteur (Video)

When it comes to the question of where or how you should start your moviemaking career, there's no right or…

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
  • Movie News

ICYMI: The Best of October 2016 on Moviemaker.com

Take a break from crafting that last-second DIY costume to revisit the best articles of October 2016 on moviemaker.com. We've picked out…

7 years ago
  • Criterion Crash Course

Criterion Crash Course: Moviemaking Lessons from Criterion’s McCabe & Mrs. Miller

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

8 years ago
  • Other

The Truth Is Out There: TV Adaptations Don’t Always Succeed

This Friday, writer-director Chris Carter, creator of the Emmy Award-winning series “The X-Files,” is reuniting FBI agents Mulder and Scully…

16 years ago