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 director says. He...
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 body of work:...
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 night premiere, it...
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 three parts: the...
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 three parts: the...
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, 2015. It is...
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 three parts: the...
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 to emerge from...
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, bringing some of...
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(More) Essential Moviemaking Podcasts: Five Laudable Audibles for Your Educational Pleasure
Directing is a fairly strange craft to try to learn, in part because you rarely get a chance to watch other directors at work. Determined moviemakers exhaust all the...
1Inside the Issue: Festivals
50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2017
Are film festivals getting better? That is, are they providing you—independent moviemakers—more of the things you want and need? I think they are. After all, it makes sense: With...
9Inside the Issue: Producing
How to Always Deliver: Denise Di Novi on Gilding a Package, Dealing With the Artistic Temperament and Sniffing Out Hits
Denise Di Novi has forged a moviemaking career by avoiding the kind of carelessness that often bankrupted her peers. Instead, she developed and refined a keen sense for emotional...