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  • The Rundown

Coppola Gets A Star; James Caan Is Still Annoyed; A Three-Horse Oscars Race

The Godfather turns 50 this week and director Francis Ford Coppola gets a much-deserved award commemorating his career; meanwhile, James…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

2022 SXSW Film Festival Lineup Features World Premiere of Still Working 9-5 Doc (Video)

The lineup for the 2022 SXSW Film Festival is out, and highlights include headlining films like Richard Linklater’s Apollo 10…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

Crimes Against Your Ears: Inside the Auditory Slasher Sound of Violence

To create the murderous soundscapes of Sound of Violence, Jussi Tegelman first tried to scare himself. The sound designer used…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

How We Made Our Film We Don’t Deserve Dogs — Almost Alone

Matthew Salleh is the director, cinematographer and editor of We Don’t Deserve Dogs, which chronicles the relationship between dogs and…

3 years ago
  • Oct Rundown

Movie News: SXSW Fallout; 1988 v. 2020; Vanilla Ice Reconsidered

Movie News: A new doc looks at filmmakers' dashed 2020 SXSW dreams; a deep-dive on how films have changed since…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

Documentaries That Deserve Distribution — So Everyone Can Finally See Them

We want to recommend some fantastic documentaries: The Donut King, P.S. Burn This Letter Please, M for Magic, Finding YingYing, Whirlybird,…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

Movie News: American Psycho Is 20; Watch SXSW Pilots; Frightening Al Pacino

In today's Movie News: We talk to Christian Bale and many more about American Psycho turning 20; you can watch…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

Online Film Festivals Unite Movie Lovers Separated by COVID-19

The San Luis Obispo International Film Festival was one of the countless public gatherings that changed its plans because of…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

Movie News Roundup: Weinstein Gets 23 Years; What The Hunt Isn’t; Cannes Update

Welcome to MovieMaker’s Movie News Roundup, where we succinctly summarize movie news and just movie news — always with links…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

SXSW Cancelled Due to Coronavirus Fears

SXSW is cancelled because of coronavirus fears, the beloved festival announced Friday. “The City of Austin has cancelled the March…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

Movie News Roundup: Black Widow Won’t Budge; Will Cannes Be Canned?; Batmobile Revealed

Welcome to MovieMaker’s Movie News Roundup, where we succinctly summarize movie news and just movie news — always with links…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

Ethan Hawke Shows the Power of Empathy and Love in Adopt a Highway

Huddled together in a dingy motel room in a scene from Logan Marshall-Green's Adopt a Highway, a former prisoner, played…

4 years ago
  • Inside MM - How To

Breaking and Entering, Part One: How To Shoot Down Self-Doubt and Pay the Rent While Making It In the Film Industry

Becoming a moviemaker seemed like an impossibly ambitious goal when I was growing up. I was living in Brazil, watching bootleg copies…

5 years ago
  • Moviemaking

The Story of Ingrid: What It’s Like to Make a Documentary on a $15K Budget

I met Morrisa Maltz during SXSW in 2016 when she came to a panel on micro-budget filmmaking that I put…

5 years ago
  • Inside MM - How To

Inside the Creative Process: Karyn Kusama Walks Through Five Phases of Production, From Screenwriting to Distribution

Guest Moviemaker Karyn Kusama has been through a lot in her career. Kusama broke out in 2000 with her debut…

5 years ago
  • MM Guide 2019

Working the Crowd: How Indie Crowdfunding Campaigns Have Evolved, and Some Savvy Ways to Keep Up

Why this film? Why you? Why now? Each arm of your crowdfunding campaign—from video, to narrative, to rewards, to backer…

5 years ago
  • Movie News

Exclusive: Pamela Adlon Won’t Let Michael Kelly Get All Square That Easy (Video)

John Zbikowski (Michael Kelly) is a small town bookie having a hard time collecting on outstanding debts. After a one…

6 years ago
  • Interviews

"You Don’t Have to Be a Friend. Just Establish Trust": Dealt’s Luke Korem on Getting Doc Subjects to Be Themselves

MovieMaker got to spend some time with Richard Turner at SXSW this year and we can confirm a common rumor about…

7 years ago
  • Editing

Moonlight Co-Editor Nat Sanders Talks Quitting Your Day Job, Disagreeing With Directors and That Awkward Oscars Moment

Though his nomination for a Best Editing Oscar for Moonlight wasn't as monumental as his co-editor Joi McMillon's—she was the first African-American to…

7 years ago
  • Moviemaking

Delivering Results: How Alice Lowe Wrote Prevenge in a Week and Shot it in 11 Days… While Pregnant

So, I had been attempting to develop a feature, with a view to directing. But development was slow and torturous:…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

Who Does Native American Culture Belong To?: Mat Hames Poses the Question in Documentary What Was Ours

Mat Hames is a filmmaker who is more interested in raising questions than giving answers. That much is clear from…

7 years ago
  • Movie News

Crowd Teasers: Joel Edgerton Threatens Violence From Behind a Sick Beard in It Comes at Night Trailer

Exactly half of the trailer for Trey Edward Shults’ new thriller It Comes at Night consists of an eerie walk…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

Two Time’s the Charm: An Interview with Mike Birbiglia on Don’t Think Twice

Improv is all about "yes, and," taking what your scene partner says, and building off of his or her statement.…

8 years ago
  • Winter 2016

Listen and Learn: Five Essential Podcasts to Augment Your Movie Education

What if, when you’re stuck in traffic, instead of listening to Adele’s “Hello” for the thousandth time, you could be…

8 years ago