All posts tagged "Winter 2015"
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Scar Tissue: Mommy is Xavier Dolan’s Most Serious, Sincere Film Yet
With his latest feature, Mommy, Xavier Dolan has rid himself of pretense. “I come from a very mainstream background,” the 25-year-old Quebecois... -
Maps to the Stars: David Cronenberg’s New Age L.A. Nightmare
Maps to the Stars, director David Cronenberg’s masterpiece about Tinseltown and its strange inhabitants, is a perfect reflection of the auteur’s entire... -
Rip City Rendezvous: Portland Film Festival Writes its Own Narrative
When Portland Film Festival director Josh Leake called me to say he wanted my first independent feature to debut as the opening... -
Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2015: Top 10 Big Cities
All this week, we’re releasing the 2015 edition of our annual Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker list, in... -
Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2015: Top Five Small Cities
All this week, we’re releasing the 2015 edition of our annual Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker list, in... -
MovieMaker’s Winter 2015 Issue: On Newsstands January 30, 2015
MovieMaker Magazine’s 112th issue, Winter 2015, will be distributed at the Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals from January 22nd to February 1,... -
Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2015: Top Five Towns
All this week, we’re releasing the 2015 edition of our annual Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker list, in... -
Taking History by the Horns: Circumstance, Talent and Willpower Come Together in Selma
The making of movies invites the making of myth. Especially when it turns out well, the story of how a film managed... -
Park City 2015: 13 Picks from Sundance and Slamdance
After three exalted decades, Sundance maintains its spot on the international film festival circuit as the premiere U.S. event of the year,...
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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...1Inside the Issue: Directing
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...Inside the Issue: How To
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...