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Hearing What’s In Your Head: Kenneth Lonergan On His Process of Writing As a Director

Kenneth Lonergan is a playwright, screenwriter, and director best-known for his searing Oscar-winning original screenplay for Manchester by the Sea.…

5 years ago
  • Winter 2017

15 Essential Empathetic Films: Movies to Change Minds, Mold Moral Consciousness and Heal the World

In Steve James’ beautiful documentary Life Itself (2014), these are the first words we hear from critic Roger Ebert, whose…

7 years ago
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Gold from Straw: Brotherhood, Perseverance, and Creative Editing in Mistaken for Strangers

Tom Berninger turns a would-be straightforward rockumentary about his brother’s band into an extraordinarily rich, moving tale of fame, fortune…

10 years ago
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All in the Family: Cinema’s Baddest Black Sheep

Black sheep. There seems to be one or two in every family: dysfunctional relatives who, no matter how much they…

11 years ago
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Mark Ruffalo’s Blind Faith

Mark Ruffalo's breakthrough role as Laura Linney’s estranged and road-wearied brother in You Can Count on Me had critics and…

16 years ago
  • Articles - Directing

Mark Ruffalo’s Revenge: A Long Strange Trip to the Promised Land

My great aunt, who was quite comfortable financially, used to cut napkins in half at the dinner table. When I…

20 years ago