In today's Movie News Rundown: R.I.P Eastbound & Down co-creator Ben Best; Werner Herzog's advice on just doing it; a…
Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11 is a documentary about how the comedy world tried to bring laughter back after the horror…
In today's Movie News Rundown: Ennio Morricone, one of the greatest film composers who will ever live, is gone. Let's…
The new Werner Herzog film Family Romance LLC is about a real-life Japanese company that invites customers to rent fathers…
“Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life."—Werner Herzog When we began the journey to…
Filmmakers are excellent liars. Our greatest lie is how long we tell ourselves a film will take to make. If…
David Crowley was a 25-year-old filmmaker in Apple Valley, Minnesota, when he began filming a project he called Gray State—creating…
I had the honor of attending last weekend's Telluride Film Festival as a member of its 44th Student Symposium, which…
“I used to think of myself as a pilgrim, though now I am trying to be a good soldier of…
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,…
"Did you drink some sort of strange herbal tea this morning?" That question, asked of me by Werner Herzog as…
One idea that was very important early on in our film Neptune was the creation of a living mandala. Though…
I know you’re thinking: How did this kid from New York end up making movies on the other side of…
Photographer Fabrice Dall'Anese was MovieMaker's man on the ground at the 41st Toronto International Film Festival, which ran September 8-18…
“If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million correct facts. But…
The 43rd Telluride Film Festival whirs into action from September 2-5, 2016, in Telluride, Colorado. As per tradition, the festival…
Werner Herzog doesn’t own a cell phone, but that doesn’t make him a technophobe. At first glance, the poster for…
On a naked corner in the American South, a young black girl boosts herself up on a yellow fire hydrant,…
Two days. $1,000. A camcorder and pack of tapes. A cast of alcoholics, drug addicts (who were picked from heroin…
In 1979, Werner Herzog made Nosferatu the Vampyre. Today it stands as one of the strongest among over 200 film…
In his groundbreaking documentaries, Errol Morris has tackled pet cemeteries (Gates of Heaven), the torture of suspected terrorists at Abu…
If French film in the 1950s was a convalescent in a hospice, as Godard and Truffaut claimed, the Nouvelle Vague…
Despite the years he has spent on location in the Peruvian Amazon, on the Sahara, and in Australia, the United…