All posts tagged "Steve McQueen"
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2018 Beyond Fest Preview: Five Screenings to Catch at Los Angeles’ Expertly Programmed Genre Festival
Returning for the sixth time, Beyond Fest continues to build on its reputation as the home to all of Los Angeles’s genre wants and needs....
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The Irresistible Lure of the Heist: From Baby Driver to Logan Lucky, Why Do We Return to This Classic Genre?
Looking for a summer getaway? You may have to steal it. A couple of high-profile heists have promised summer pleasures this year. Steven Soderbergh, an...
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Directors Without Borders: The Producers of Lion give the Lowdown on International Co-Production
by Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Angie Fielder When international co-productions work well, one plus one can equal three. They’re a great way to combine...
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Things I’ve Learned: Cinematographer William Fraker’s Eight Rules of Filmmaking
Originally appearing in issue 56 of MovieMaker in 2004 as told to David Konow, legendary cinematographer William Fraker’s insight was gleaned from a long and fruitful...
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Festival Spotlight Friday: Opening Night of New Orleans Film Festival 2013
When Jolene Pinder, executive director of the New Orleans Film Festival, told a tear-stained, emotionally exhausted Opening Night audience that after the grueling experience of...
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Review: 12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen
12 Years a Slave Week continues with MovieMaker’s Editor’s Weekend Pick, in which Kelly Leow attempts to express the poignant, brutal experience of watching Steve...
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Wisdom Wednesday Red Carpet Special: 12 Years a Slave Cast and Director
It’s 12 Years a Slave week on Moviemaker.com! To celebrate both the release of one of 2013’s best films, and its upcoming appearance on the...
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2013 Toronto International Film Festival Diary, Day Three: Unforgiven, Dallas Buyers Club, Enough Said, The Double
MovieMaker’s latest dispatch from the Toronto International Film Festival 2013, courtesy of Jeff Meyers. On Day Three, our intrepid correspondent discusses critical ennui, the micro-budget...
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2013 Toronto International Film Festival Diary, Day Two: Like Father, Like Son, Le Week-end, Labor Day, 12 Years a Slave
Toronto International Film Festival 2013 correspondent Jeff Meyers continues his screening diary in this installment, covering screenings of Like Father, Like Son, Le Week-end, Labor...
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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...