All posts tagged "woody allen"
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’69 at 50: A Look Back at the Legacy of Nine Movies From 1969
Polarizing political rhetoric, culture wars, fiercely divided opinions about the moral fiber of the president, troops dying far from home in a war most citizens question, debates...
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Nicole Holofcener: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Nicole Holofcener’s films often focus on her fumbling protagonists’ neurotic tendencies, but her approach to moviemaking is a rejection of hopeless self-absorption. Fittingly, Holofcener grew...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Rob Reiner
As Michael “Meathead” Stivic, Rob Reiner played the impassioned, political, and socially active foil to Carroll O’Connor’s bigoted father-in-law, Archie Bunker, in Norman Lear’s classic...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: James Ivory
It’s hard to believe that James Ivory grew up anywhere other than England—the Oregonian moviemaker’s name is so synonymous with a certain genre of lush...
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How They Did It: Burning Annie Arrived at Distribution After a Long, Long Decade Of Catastrophes
If an indie film is lucky enough to get distribution at all, the release is its one shot, a match you can’t strike twice. Yet...
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Improvised Anxiety: On the Rocks is a Painfully Hilarious Microbudget Feature
Incredibly uncomfortable and relentlessly hilarious, On the Rocks, the first feature from Alex Kavutskiy and Ariel Gardner, is a tragicomedy of epic proportions. The story...
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Cinema Law: What You Should Know About Using Other Peoples’ Quotes in Your Film
Q: I’m making a film and I’d like to use a quote from a famous person in the script. Are quotes considered intellectual property and...
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Viva Mexico: Walls Are Torn Down at Los Cabos International Film Festival 2016
The warm sea air hits my face as soon as I exit the Los Cabos International Airport. I’m greeted by what appears to be a...
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Things I’ve Learned As a Moviemaker: John Turturro
Throughout Brooklyn-born John Turturro’s three decades in movies, his distinctive presence has been stamped onto such diverse classics as Do the Right Thing, Quiz Show and...
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Don’t Call It a Comeback: Barbara Kopple Talks About Her New Doc, Miss Sharon Jones!
Barbara Kopple has a lot to celebrate this weekend. In addition to her 70th birthday, her newest documentary, Miss Sharon Jones!, opens in theaters today, adding...
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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 are just a handful...
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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 Antarctic waters as...
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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 cancer diagnosis hidden...