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R.I.P Ben Best, co-creator of Eastbound & Down; Werner Herzog's advice; Hawkeye trailer; Queen's Gambit wins big at the Creative…
Nick Fituri Scown explains Werner Herzog helped inspire him and Julie Seabaugh to make their documentary Too Soon: Comedy After…
R.I.P. Ennio Morricone; Tom Cruise benefits from relaxed quarantine policies, and Werner Herzog directed a film in a language he…
The new Werner Herzog film Family Romance LLC is about a real-life Japanese company that invites customers to rent fathers.
Michel Grey, writer and producer of the indie horror-thriller Days of Power, shares how to shoot a safe and successful…
"Filmmakers are excellent liars. Our greatest lie is how long we tell ourselves a film will take to make," says…
A Gray State examines the complicated history of David Crowley, a young filmmaker and right-wing hero whose project Gray State…
I had the honor of attending last weekend's Telluride Film Festival as a member of its 44th Student Symposium, which…
Werner Herzog told moviemaking students at his workshop in Western Cuba there would be no planning allowed, and even forged…
Cate Blanchett is every woman in Julian Rosefeldt’s feature film Manifesto, based on the German artist/director’s multi-screen video art installation.
When it rains it pours, and in April 2017, showers of weirdness and wisdom came down on MovieMaker.com. Christian Bale,
Werner Herzog talks poetry, politics, food waste, Donald Trump and Mike Tyson in this wide-ranging interview on his films' view…
One idea that was very important early on in our film Neptune was the creation of a living mandala. The…
My film "Supot" is about a boy who refuses a ritual circumcision intended to usher him into manhood. He tries…
Photographer Fabrice Dall'Anese was MM's man on the ground at the Toronto International Film Festival, and captured the portraits in…
There are few more passionate storytellers working today than Jeff Feuerzeig, whose Author: The JT LeRoy Story is in theaters…
Telluride Film Fest announced their lineup the morning before kicking off the event. Now those who decided to go months…
In the spirit of Werner Herzog’s exploratory futurism, here are three things his doc Lo and Behold can teach moviemakers…
This simple moment of play, captured in the 1973 film Hot Pepper by the late, great documentarian Les Blank, exemplifies…
Giuseppe Andrews—and the gobsmackingly untraditional making of Garbanzo Gas—is the subject of Adam Rifkin’s Giuseppe Makes a Movie. It’s a…
In 1979, Werner Herzog made Nosferatu the Vampyre. Today it stands as one of the strongest among over 200 film…
This week’s Wisdom Wednesday brings you five short and punchy golden rules from Academy Award-winning documentarian Errol Morris.
MovieMaker Manifesto: Men and women of contemporary independent film, auteurs and fans alike, you downtrodden and enraged creators of beauty,…
Pioneering German director Werner Herzog talks about the influences and "fortuitous accidents" that make up his cinematic oeuvre.