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Old Cat, New Tricks: Casting Frankie Valenti in Tiger Orange by Wade Gasque
Director Wade Gasque’s first feature, Tiger Orange, premieres at Los Angeles’ Outfest on July 18. The film centers around two gay brothers forced to reconnect after their father’s death. We asked...
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Wisdom Wednesday: Errol Morris’ Five Golden Rules of Moviemakingby Errol Morris
This week’s Wisdom Wednesday brings you five short and punchy golden rules from Academy Award-winning documentarian Errol Morris. In his groundbreaking and critically acclaimed documentaries,...
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Getting to The Other Shore: the Inspiring Diana Nyad Documentary (Part One of...
We’re celebrating the opening of our latest VOD offering, The Other Shore, with a splash: a two-part interview with director Timothy Wheeler and producer Kevin Abrams. Make sure to read part two, and...
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An Interview with Director Stephen Frears: on Strong Women, William Wyler,...
On the occasion of the U.S. release of Philomena, starring the ever-formidable Judi Dench as its classically-named heroine, MovieMaker writer Jeff Meyers attempts to pry open the equally venerable...
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Wisdom: Paul W.S. Anderson’s Rules Can Be Deadly
Paul W.S. Anderson first gained recognition in his native England when he wrote and directed Shopping, starring Jude Law, in 1994. Though the film was banned in several British cinemas and released...
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Reality Bites: 20th Anniversary Retrospective with Ben Stiller
Reality Bites, that seminal early-’90s snapshot of post-college love and ennui, turns 20 years old this week, first premiering February 18, 1994. We dug out an interview with director Ben Stiller from...
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Wisdom: Atom Egoyan’s Golden Rules
This Wisdom Wednesday, director Atom Egoyan tells us his golden rules for happiness, both in the realm of moviemaking and life in general. The Egypt-born, Canada-bred Egoyan has written, directed,...
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Wisdom: Chris Weitz’s Golden Rules of Filmmaking
This week, our Wednesday Words of Wisdom come from the Hollywood jack-of-all-trades that is Chris Weitz. The consummate professional reminds fellow moviemakers to avoid clichés and always mind their...
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Editor’s Weekend Pick: Short Term 12
MovieMaker‘s pick of the films out in theaters this week is the award-winning, heart-pumping Short Term 12, and we’re celebrating its release with an exclusive article by writer-director Destin Daniel...
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Wisdom Wednesday: Errol Morris’ Five Golden Rules of Moviemakingby Errol Morris
This week’s Wisdom Wednesday brings you five short and punchy golden rules from Academy Award-winning documentarian Errol Morris. In his groundbreaking and critically acclaimed documentaries,...
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Reality Bites: 20th Anniversary Retrospective with Ben Stiller
Reality Bites, that seminal early-’90s snapshot of post-college love and ennui, turns 20 years old this week, first premiering February 18, 1994. We dug out an interview with director Ben Stiller from...
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Things I’ve Learned: Atom Egoyan
This Wisdom Wednesday, director Atom Egoyan tells us his golden rules for happiness, both in the realm of moviemaking and life in general. The Egypt-born, Canada-bred Egoyan has written, directed,...
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Fictionalizing Truth: Lee Daniel’s The Butler & More
We’ve all seen those stately biopics (usually with Oscar aspirations), in which renowned actors portray real-life historical figures (Patton, Queen Elizabeth, Gandhi, etc). They are often interesting...
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Wisdom Wednesday: Julie Taymor’s 10 Golden Rules of Filmmaking by Julie Taymor
Massachusetts-born director Julie Taymor is daringly uncompromising in her vivid, larger-than-life cinematic visions, and urges other moviemakers to be the same in this Wednesday’s Words of Wisdom. The...
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MovieMaker Editor’s Pick: Prince Avalanche by MovieMaker Editors
MovieMaker’s Editor’s Weekend Pick is director-writer-producer David Gordon Green’s Prince Avalanche, starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch. Prince Avalanche, adapted from the Icelandic film Either Way...
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Thor Freudenthal Sets Sail with Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters by Kyle Rupprecht
Logan Lerman and Thor Freudenthal on the set of Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters. Photo by Murray Close. German-born moviemaker Thor Freudenthal started his career in visual effects and animation,...
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Best Of: The Most Bodacious Surfing Movies
Much like an ocean wave, the surfing movie subgenre has seen its share of peaks and valleys. The innocuous yet charming 1959 teen comedy Gidget is often credited as bringing the surfing subculture into...
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Tattoo Nation: Director Eric Schwartz (Part 2)
In Part One (of this interview, we talked to Colorado-based Tattoo Nation director Eric Schwartz about his transition from still photography to film, finding his heavily-inked subjects, and the...
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Fictionalizing Truth: Lee Daniel’s The Butler & More
We’ve all seen those stately biopics (usually with Oscar aspirations), in which renowned actors portray real-life historical figures (Patton, Queen Elizabeth, Gandhi, etc). They are often interesting...
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Reality Bites: 20th Anniversary Retrospective with Ben Stiller
Reality Bites, that seminal early-’90s snapshot of post-college love and ennui, turns 20 years old this week, first premiering February 18, 1994. We dug out an interview with director Ben Stiller from...
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