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  • Movie News

5 Times Al Pacino and Robert De Niro Almost Played Each Other’s Roles

Robert De Niro and Al Pacino are still going strong. Here are five times the old friends almost played each…

2 months ago
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17 Great Martin Scorsese Scenes to Mark His 80th Birthday

Martin Scorsese, the greatest moviemaker, turns 80 today, and we're celebrating with a look at 17 of his greatest scenes.…

1 year ago
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Martin Scorsese at 80: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker

Martin Scorsese turns 80 Thursday, and in honor of his birthday, we're sharing this edition of Things I've Learned as…

1 year ago
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Paul Schrader Says Shooting The Card Counter Digitally Helped Him Retain Final Cut

The Card Counter writer-director Paul Schrader has been making classic films since the 1970s — but he still embraces digital…

3 years ago
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Inside Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese’s Decades-Long Quest to Make a George Gershwin Biopic

The Internet is littered with cinematic what-ifs: castings that almost happened, sequel ideas someone scotched, amazing-sounding pitches that proved to…

3 years ago
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David Fincher Calls Joker ‘a Betrayal of the Mentally Ill’

David Fincher said in an interview to promote his new film The Mank that he considered last year's hit Joker to…

3 years ago
  • Inside MM - Acting

Mads Mikkelsen: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker

From Death Stranding to Star Wars to Marvel, from prestige TV (Hannibal) to high-profile Oscar contenders (At Eternity’s Gate), Mads Mikkelsen can be…

4 years ago
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Martin Scorsese’s Biggest Oscar Competition? Joker, a Movie He Inspired

Martin Scorsese's The Irishman has no bigger challenger this Oscar season than Joker, a film heavily inspired by Scorsese's own…

4 years ago
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13 Joker Easter Eggs and Inspirations: The King of Comedy is Just the Start

Joker received 11 Oscar nominations Monday, the most of any film this year, including for Best Picture, Best Director and Best…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

13 Joker Easter Eggs and Inspirations: The King of Comedy is Just the Start

Todd Phillips’ Joker borrows unapologetically from other movies, especially Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and King of Comedy. One way Joker…

5 years ago
  • Book Reviews

Book Review: Transcendental Style in Film

In 1972, film student and aspiring critic Paul Schrader published his landmark study on spirituality in cinema, Transcendental Style in…

6 years ago
  • Directing

Blow by Blow: How Francois Truffaut and His New Wave Contemporaries Deconstructed Filmmaking

As one of the founding fathers of the French New Wave, Francois Truffaut used cinema to capture “truth 24 times…

6 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
  • Movie News

All-Seeing Eye: God’s Front-Row Seat in the Films of Martin Scorsese (Video)

Many of Martin Scorsese's characters fancy themselves masters of their own universe. But what makes them so sure? As we've…

7 years ago
  • Things Learned

Paul Schrader: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker

Paul Schrader is learning a lot these days. Simultaneously excited about the future of moviemaking and pessimistic about its finances,…

7 years ago
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Still Worth the Fare: Taxi Driver Screens at Tribeca Film Festival to Celebrate its 40th Anniversary

The Tribeca Film Festival nearly stopped all traffic for the 40th anniversary of Taxi Driver at the Beacon Theater on…

8 years ago
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  • Interviews

Sticking it Out, Winning Big: Ben Mendelsohn Comes Up Aces Again in Mississippi Grind

If you’ve seen Ben Mendelsohn onscreen, chances are you’ve been afraid of him. The Australian actor has played some of…

9 years ago
  • Festival Spotlight Friday
  • Festivals

Festival Spotlight Friday: Onwards and Upwards with Cinequest 2014

Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Cinequest Film Festival isn't shy about its home’s rich history of technological revolution.…

10 years ago
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  • Festivals

Cinequest 2013: 4k technology and an international lineup make the Bay Area festival unmissable by Kyle Rupprecht

Now in its 23rd year, Cinequest Film Festival (CQFF) is devoted to discovering exciting up-and-coming moviemakers, as well as showcasing…

11 years ago
  • Other

Taxi Driver: New Taschen Book Features Photographs by Steve Schapiro From the Set of the Scorsese Classic

Taxi Driver was an unlikely hit in 1976. At a time when audiences were lining up for traditional genre entertainments—Rocky…

13 years ago
  • Movie News

Comfortable State of Anxiety: An Interview with Martin Scorsese

A ramble with America’s Greatest Living Director about his long career and his new “eastern western,” Gangs of New York.…

22 years ago