All posts tagged "San Francisco"
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The Last Black Man in San Francisco: Joe Talbot Injects His Changing Home City’s History Into His Feature Debut
Thora Birch shows up for a second at the end of The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Joe Talbot’s mesmerizing feature debut, which has...
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The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2019: Big Cities
What are the best places to live and work as a moviemaker? It depends on what you want. But one prominent director says many cities...
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Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2016: Top 10 Big Cities
Think global but shoot local. Here’s where you’ll love doing that. Used to be if you wanted to work in the movies there were only a...
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Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2015: Top 10 Big Cities
All this week, we’re releasing the 2015 edition of our annual Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker list, in three parts: the...
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Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker in 2014, Big Cities: #10. San Francisco
Welcome to MovieMaker’s 2014 edition of the Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker! We’re counting down through our Top 10 Big Cities,...
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Crowdfunder of the Week: The Man from Reno
MovieMaker’s Trailblazer Tuesday Crowdfunder of the Week is Dave Boyle’s The Man from Reno, a film about a Japanese author and small town sheriff teaming...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
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How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...