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To Cast Bill Murray in Lost in Translation, Sofia Coppola Enlisted the Help of Wes Anderson

Critic Hannah Strong’s new book Sofia Coppola: Forever Young surveys all of the writer-director’s films, from 1999’s The Virgin Suicides…

2 years ago
  • The Rundown

Leo DiCaprio Foretells The End; Jonah Hill as Jerry Garcia; a Kurt Vonnegut Doc Four Decades in the Making

Jonah Hill is going to play the late Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia in a new Martin Scorsese movie; Don't…

2 years ago
  • The Rundown

‘Red Flag Movies’; Spider-Man Leak; ScarJo ‘Missile Crisis’; Succession: October

Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer leaks; Succession is back in two months; Scarlett Johansson-related hyperbole. Plus: Beware of "red flag…

3 years ago
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What ‘Volumetric Capture’ Is; AMC Stock Up 1,500%; This One’s for the Nerds

How internet fun-havers made AMC stock soar; lots of stuff to excite Marvel people; what "volumetric capture" is and how…

3 years ago
  • The Rundown

Clint Eastwood Cries Macho; an A.I. Duran Duran Video; Some Predictions

The trailer for Cry Macho, directed by and starring the great Clint Eastwood; Duran Duran is still making innovative videos four…

3 years ago
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Black Widow Stats; Being 28; Michael Corleone Lights a Cigarette

Black Widow sets some important pandemic-era records; 28-year-old Hannah Marks makes a movie about twenty-somethings in unconventional relationships; politeness redefined.…

3 years ago
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R.I.P. Richard Donner; Wesley Snipes’ Best Lines; Black Widow: You Got Dorffed!

Superman and Lethal Weapon mastermind Richard Donner has died; introducing "You Got Dorffed!," wherein Stephen Dorff ice skates uphill against…

3 years ago
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Whitey Bulger Revisited; Integration Test Email #2; Black Widow Oops

A new Whitey Bulger documentary tries to set the record straight; HBO Max mistakenly sends an email and comforts an…

3 years ago
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Black Widow Desexualized; Pixar’s Heat; A Beatles Thanksgiving

Scarlett Johansson on Black Widow's "sexualized" debut and how she's changed; if Pixar had made Michael Mann's Heat; Peter Jackson's new…

3 years ago
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Taskmaster Gets Up Close In the Black Widow Final Trailer

The Black Widow final trailer is thrilling for two reasons: It tells us more about Taskmaster, one of Marvel's most…

4 years ago
  • Criterion Crash Course

Criterion Crash Course: Moviemaking Lessons From Criterion’s Ghost World

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

7 years ago
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How Stop-Motion Can Survive: The Past, Present and Future of a Suffering Art (Video)

From The Boxtrolls, to Anomalisa, to Kubo and the Two Strings, stop-motion animation has consecutively held its place within the category of…

7 years ago
  • MM Guide 2017

More Than You Bargain For: Negotiating With Talent 101

I used to be terrified of negotiating—my instinct was to immediately acquiesce and avoid the hassle. So when I meet…

7 years ago
  • Festivals

Festival Wrap: Questions of Identity and Legacy Meet On Screen at the Hawaii International Film Festival 2016

Hawaii, you could say, has a Hawaii problem. It’s a place, like Paris or New York City, that has become…

7 years ago
  • Feast for the Eyes

Feast for the Eyes Special Edition: Top Five Food Moments in 2014 Films

Our irregular blog Feast for the Eyes charts the gastronomic iconography of the screen, pondering the depths of narrative, character,…

9 years ago
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Why We Like: Luc Besson’s Lucy Trailer by Heidi Honeycutt

In our new online series "Why We Like," MovieMaker editors break down a freshly-released trailer of an upcoming film we're…

10 years ago
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Editor’s Weekend Pick: Don Jon by MM Editors

“Porn is another medium and it is, frankly, more popular than movies!” says Joseph Gordon-Levitt on his directorial debut Don…

11 years ago
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  • Festivals

Festival Spotlight Friday: Toronto International Film Festival Diary, Part 1 by Jeff Meyers

This is Jeff Meyers, reporting from the Toronto International Film Festival for MovieMaker Magazine. I'm a film writer and critic…

11 years ago