All posts tagged "Zurich Film Festival"
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The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2018
What is it you’re after—the art of cool, or the cool of art? The fact is, all of the most imaginative, surprising, and downright wild...
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“It’s A Statement”: Director Ewan McGregor and Jennifer Connelly Talk Politics and Parenting in American Pastoral
Prior its debut at the 2016 Toronto Film Festival, American Pastoral had seen a long road to production. Adapted from Phillip Roth’s Pulitzer Prize winning...
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Zurich Film Festival 2016: Five Days of Towering Cinema, Landscapes – and Prices
The flatscreen television in my hotel room greets me with a crawl of text across the top of the screen. “Welcome to the Hotel Zurich,...
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The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2014
Our annual list of the world’s weirdest and most wonderful cinematic celebrations: the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World. It’s the feeling every moviemaker...
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Dispatches from Zurich Film Festival 2014: Part 2
Urban perfection! Impeccably curated cinema! International glamour! The 10th edition of the Zurich Film Festival kicked off September 25, and MovieMaker editor-at-large Peter Weed is...
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Dispatches from Zurich Film Festival 2014: Part 1
Urban perfection! Impeccably curated cinema! International glamour! The 10th edition of the Zurich Film Festival kicked off September 25, and MovieMaker editor-at-large Peter Weed is...
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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...
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 cancer diagnosis hidden...