“There Was an Opportunity to Make the Movie More Romantic …
Dec 24, 2024 · Tommy Dewey is best known for playing Alex Cole on the Hulu series Casual for five seasons. This year, two movies benefit from his talents—the Jason Reitman ensemble comedy Saturday Night, and Caroline Lindy’s romantic/horror/comedy Your Monster, where he brilliantly plays the titular character.On this episode, he talks about what went into deciding on the proper mixture of absurdity and ...
Awards Season Analysis: First Time Filmmakers in the 2024 Race
Dec 5, 2024 · While it’s not uncommon for a filmmaker to earn an Oscar nomination for directing their first narrative feature—directors to do so since the turn of the century include Emerald Fennell, Jordan Peele, Benh Zeiltlin, Tony Gilroy, Rob Marshall and Spike Jonze—it’s very rare for a film debut to win best director. Only six have accomplished the feat: Marty ’s Delbert Mann, West Side Story ...
“It’s Not Precisely an Image, It’s More Like a Sensation”: Quentin ...
Nov 2, 2022 · One of the funniest movies of 2022 is Quentin Dupieux’s Incredible But True. On November 8, it’s available on streaming and Blu-ray from Arrow, but as far as I know, it has no American distributor since its world premiere in Berlin last February. One has to wonder whether Dupieux is now only considered to be a French local delicacy, even after the perverse joys and glorious idiocies of ...
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“Stereotypes Help People Delegitimize Other People and Ideas …
Dec 6, 2024 · While the eruption of violence at the US Capitol on January 6th left most Americans dazed and confused — and too many journalists and talking heads scrambling to dissect the psyche of the rioters as if they were extraterrestrial beings and not our actual next-door neighbors — multimedia artist Michael Premo had been listening and filming throughout the summer of 2020 with open ears and ...
“This Isn’t Just Any AI”: Director Pete Sillen on Bina48 and His ...
Jan 20, 2024 · Filmmaker: I think of you as someone who shoots, who has a relationship with subjects in the room, so it’s interesting that you basically made a heavily archival version of this film before you got to even shoot. Sillen: In the end, I’m a camera person. And with this, I kind of felt like I was making a film with a hand tied behind my back. In the end, this is probably 25% archival, which ...
“Don’t Call It ‘Magic Realism'”: Andrea Arnold on Returning to ...
Nov 11, 2024 · Shot and set in Gravesend, a town in Kent, England, Andrea Arnold’s new film Bird, starring newcomer Nykiya Adams alongside Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski, is a portrait of a young girl coming of age under chaotic circumstances.Twelve-year-old Bailey, played brilliantly by Adams, is bound by poverty and a dearth of options to her unstable father, Bug (Keoghan); she seeks solace in whatever ...
“The Film Is Not About AI, Not About Werner Herzog, and Never …
Nov 21, 2024 · Piotr Winiewicz’s About a Hero is as mindbogglingly complex as its eye-catching logline is simple: “A murder mystery – unwittingly starring Werner Herzog.” More precisely, the Polish filmmaker’s doc is actually an adaptation of a script in which the aforementioned cinematic maverick travels to the fictional Getunkirchenburg to investigate the strange death of a local factory worker ...
25 New Faces of Independent Film 2024 - Filmmaker Magazine
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“I Love Corrugated Cardboard”: David Lowery on Directing
Dec 4, 2024 · Director David Lowery admits he loves Christmas (he was born the day after), and that’s part of the reason why he embarked on his latest project: An Almost Christmas Story, a CG animated short for Disney from producer Alfonso Cuarón, who conceived the film with writer Jack Thorne.Set during the holiday season, An Almost Christmas Story sees a young owl named Moon who unexpectedly taken from ...