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.... -
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... -
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... -
“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,... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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 –... -
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...
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Sydney on the Map: To Land Breakout Roles, Sydney Sweeney Draws Her Own Maps of the Characters She Inhabits
A reverent initiate of a patriarchal regime; a disturbed young psychiatric hospital ward; a sexually questioning teen with a flair for the dramatic; a mysterious denizen...Inside the Issue: Directing
Think Like A Photographer: Generation Wealth’s Lauren Greenfield Shares How Still Techniques Make Better Movies
The biggest change I experienced when I went from making pictures to making films was the sense of an arc—of creating a story over time, and...Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: Casting Unknowns Was Key to Finding the Laughs and Lived-In Feel of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade
Before I directed my first film, Eighth Grade, I had heard that 90 percent of directing is casting. I’m sure there are other directors who weigh...2