Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
Collaborating on The Score I was kind of the cook and all these people were bringing the ingredients. Allowing for Improvisation Improv only works as a tool, not as a free for all. The Guidelines for...
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Collaborating on The Score I was kind of the cook and all these people were bringing the ingredients. Allowing for Improvisation Improv only works as a tool, not as a free for all. The Guidelines for...
View ArticleThings I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
Collaborating on The Score I was kind of the cook and all these people were bringing the ingredients. Allowing for Improvisation Improv only works as a tool, not as a free for all. The Guidelines for...
View ArticleCatching Lightning In a Bottle
Collaborating on The Score I was kind of the cook and all these people were bringing the ingredients. Allowing for Improvisation Improv only works as a tool, not as a free for all. The Guidelines for...
View ArticleThings I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
Collaborating on The Score I was kind of the cook and all these people were bringing the ingredients. Allowing for Improvisation Improv only works as a tool, not as a free for all. The Guidelines for...
View ArticleWillie Nelson Doc Should Feel Like ‘a Conversation with Willie,’ Directors Say
Willie Nelson & Family, the new five-episode, 260-minute docu-series about the music legend by co-directors Thom Zimny and Oren Moverman, should feel “like a conversation with Willie,” they say....
View ArticleMichael B. Jordan Stars in Huge Movies. With Creed III, It’s Time to Direct...
I didn’t recognize the voice at first. We were supposed to be on Zoom, but Michael B. Jordan is a busy man these days. I can’t imagine there’s much time to sit still when you’re editing your first...
View ArticleBlow Up My Life Cracks a Massive Conspiracy Story on a Small Budget
Blow Up My Life filmmakers Ryan Dickie and Abigail Horton initially imagined their first feature-length film being shot on a much larger scale: The film, a dark comedy about a ruthless pharmaceutical...
View ArticleProlific Aussie Helmer Beresford takes on Bride of The Wind
Bruce Beresford directing Sarah Wynter as “Alma Mahler” in the historical drama Bride of the Wind. After 30 years of moviemaking and almost as many features to his credit, Australian director Bruce...
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On The Job of an Editor You have the courage of your convictions. When you’re editing you have to make thousands of decisions every day and if you dither over them all the time, you’ll never get...
View ArticleThe Director who Defies Audience Expectations
Brad Anderson Leave it to writer/director Brad Anderson to defy audience expectations. Though he’s often been pigeonholed as ‘the romantic-comedy guy’ following the success of his first two features,...
View ArticleIn 1-800-HOT-NITE, Nick Richey Enlists a Cobra Kai Star for a Story of Phone...
Nick Richey had a pretty wild childhood, and poured some of his craziest stories into his film 1-800-HOT-NITE, which stars Cobra Kai breakout Dallas Dupree Young as a teenager in trouble who — fleeing...
View ArticleShe Said Director on Why We Don’t See Harvey Weinstein’s Face: ‘It’s Not His...
Maria Shrader’s new Universal drama She Said is based on the book of the same name by New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, whose 2017 report about Harvey Weinstein opened the...
View ArticleHalloween Ends Director David Gordon Green on Killing Your Expectations
Love it or hate it, Halloween Ends, by director David Gordon Green, is a love letter to John Carpenter movies. The conclusion borrows from Carpenter’s movie Christine to create the character Corey...
View ArticleThe Color of Forbidden Fruit
Chen Kaige’s The Promise. Photo: Warner Independent Pictures. The Promise glows with the richest colors this side of an April tulip field. A gorgeous opening shot tracks pink flower blooms shaken from...
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Michael Winterbottom’s The Road to Guantanamo (2006). Get off your butt and make a movie. I think, especially these days, one of the big advantages of DV is you can just make a film. You don’t have to...
View ArticleAndrew Dominik on the NC-17 Rating for Blonde: ‘A Bit of Drama Is a Good Thing’
Andrew Dominik says “a bit of drama is a good thing” when it comes to his Marilyn Monroe movie Blonde being rated NC-17. Of course, he didn’t anticipate getting the higher-than-R rating, and it’s the...
View ArticleAndrew Dominik Says Ana de Armas Made Him Cry on Blonde Set: ‘A Teardrop of...
Andrew Dominik knew he had found his ideal Marilyn Monroe in Ana de Armas. But on the second day of filming for Blonde, he realized just how spot-on she was when her performance in a scene actually...
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Maria Bello, David Koechner and Aaron Eckhart in Jason Reitman’s Thank You for Smoking (2006). Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures. Work out if at all possible. If you’re not too tired, it can clear your...
View ArticleBreaking Director Abi Damaris Corbin Remembers Michael K. Williams: ‘His...
One of the last movies that Michael K. Williams ever acted in, Breaking, comes out in theaters today from director Abi Damaris Corbin. She remembers Williams fondly: “His voice is honey meets gravel,”...
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