All posts tagged "Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker"
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Jonas Mekas
“I hope you’re taping this. One day I would like to have a copy,” Jonas Mekas tells me from his New York apartment. At 95, the...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Marc Forster
With All I See is You, director Marc Forster consciously pivots back toward the ambiguous feature, the once prevalent film that straddles various genres leaving...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Uwe Boll
A German enfant terrible (or just plain terrible, for many critics) moves to Vancouver in the late ’90s and builds a name making gore-driven adaptations...
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“A New Manifesto for F(i)lm:” A (Satirical) Excerpt from Ayoade on Ayoade
Richard Ayoade is a cinephile. That much is made abundantly clear in Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey, his book of essays, interviews with himself...
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Things I’ve Learned As a Moviemaker: Gaspar Noé
Is it easy being cinema’s reigning enfant terrible? No, but Gaspar Noé wears the title well. This year, the Argentinian moviemaker, who lives and works...
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My Golden Rule (For Directors): Wallace Shawn
Although I think of myself primarily as a writer, and I’ve written films, I’ve never directed a film. Most of my experience in film comes...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton is a man who has lived many lives throughout his long, consistently intriguing career. The star of A Simple Plan, Monster’s Ball,...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Errol Morris
In his groundbreaking documentaries, Errol Morris has tackled pet cemeteries (Gates of Heaven), the torture of suspected terrorists at Abu Ghraib (Standard Operating Procedure), Vietnam-era...
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Things I’ve Learned: Wim Wenders’ 50 Golden Rules of Moviemaking
Wim Wenders is known for his poetic and emotional films, like 1984’s Palme d’Or-winning Paris, Texas and 1987’s Wings of Desire – the latter netting...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Michael Ballhaus
Michael Ballhaus, ASC is an indisputable cinematography great. As a key collaborator for directors such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Martin Scorsese, Mike Nichols and Robert...
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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...