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"You Have to Find a Balance Between the Eroticism and the Reality": Ashley Connor on Sharp Stick
Filmmaker Magazine - 22 Jan 2022 21:00
For Sharp Stick, her first feature film since 2010’s Tiny Furniture, Lena Dunham relates the adventure of Sarah Jo, a 26-year-old virgin, as she woos the father of Zach, an intellectually disabled child for whom she ca...
"The Challenges We Had Were All Related to Nature": DP Barbara Alvarez on Utama
Filmmaker Magazine - 22 Jan 2022 18:45
In Alejandro Loayza Grisi’s Utama, an ailing man tries to persuade his elderly Quechuan grandparents weathering a drought on the Bolivian Altiplano to move away from their lifelong home and join him in the city. Shot o...
"It's a Lot Easier to Make a Genuine Connection With Someone Without a Whole Bunch of Gear in Between You and Them": DPs Zac Manuel & Justin Zweifach on Descendant
Filmmaker Magazine - 22 Jan 2022 23:30
Just north of Mobile, Alabama is the historic community of Africatown founded by 32 West Africans who were transported to the US on the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to enter the country. Margaret Brown’s Descend...
"This Film is Here to Illuminate and Mediate Objectification for You": Editor Cecily Rhett on Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
Filmmaker Magazine - 22 Jan 2022 23:00
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power is Nina Menkes’ adaptation of her own talk connecting the objectification of women in cinema to employment discrimination and sexual assault. Unlike the talk, however, the film is organize...
"I Wanted the Cinematography to Take a Backseat to the Story and Main Character": DP Adam Stone on 2nd Chance
Filmmaker Magazine - 22 Jan 2022 22:45
2nd Chance continues director Ramin Bahrani’s concern with people on the margins of society pursuing the American Dream. The documentary examines the case of Richard Davis, a bankrupt pizzeria owner who invented the bu...
"The Idea of an 'Audience' Has Been Deconstructed" | Amy Poehler, Lucy and Desi
Filmmaker Magazine - 22 Jan 2022 22:30
The last two years have prompted much contemplation and reconsideration of the reasons why we make our films as well as the ways in which we make them. What aspect of your filmmaking--whether in your creative process, th...
Why In The Heights Flopping Felt So 'Sh---y' To Star Melissa Barrera
Cinema Blend - 22 Jan 2022 22:30
Following Melissa Barrera involvement in 2022's first commercial hit, she reflects on the poor box office performance of In the Heights.
"Skate Videos Really Influenced My Sensibility as a Filmmaker": Editor Bryan Mason on Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Filmmaker Magazine - 22 Jan 2022 22:15
In Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, Emma Thompson plays a retired schoolteacher who is certain she has never had good sex. She decides to change that by checking into a hotel room and hiring a sex worker, but he quickly app...
Scream's David Arquette Recalls How Wes Craven First Encouraged Him To Date Courteney Cox
Cinema Blend - 22 Jan 2022 22:12
David Arquette remembers Wes Craven as the man who helped him pursue his Scream co-star, Courteney Cox.
"Acting Is Truly Not Just About the Language You Speak": Editor Linda Jildmalm on Hatching
Filmmaker Magazine - 22 Jan 2022 21:45
Hatching, a Finnish film that combines satire of modern “lifestyle” blogging with elements of coming-of-age films and body horror, follows a socially isolated pre-teen girl, Tinja, as she discovers and then nurtures ...
"We Can't Afford to Waste Half of the Talent in Our Industry" | Hanna Bergholm on Hatching
Filmmaker Magazine - 22 Jan 2022 21:30
The last two years have prompted much contemplation and reconsideration of the reasons why we make our films as well as the ways in which we make them. What aspect of your filmmaking--whether in your creative process, th...
"It's Easy to Get Tunnel Vision on a Project Without Seeking Out Other Forms of Art": Editor Catrin Hedström on Sharp Stick
Filmmaker Magazine - 22 Jan 2022 21:15
Sharp Stick, Lena Dunham’s return to feature filmmaking after 12 years, is an intimate, character-driven film focusing on Sarah Jo, a naïve, woman in her mid-twenties embarking on an affair with the father of the chil...
"You Have to Find a Balance Between the Eroticism and the Reality": Ashley Connor on Short Stick
Filmmaker Magazine - 22 Jan 2022 21:00
For her first feature film since 2010’s Tiny Furniture, Lena Dunham relates the adventure of Sarah Jo, a 26-year-old virgin, as she woos the father of Zach, an intellectually disabled child for whom she cares. As the f...
"Capturing the Scale of the Amazon Rainforest Is an Impossible Task": DP Alex Pritz on The Territory
Filmmaker Magazine - 22 Jan 2022 20:30
The Territory takes viewers deep inside the Brazilian Amazon, allowing them to bear witness to the ongoing conflict that has pitted Indigenous inhabitants against settlers looking to capitalize on the land. The film capt...
[Sundance Review] 'Watcher' Is an Atmospheric and Stylish Paranoid Thriller!
Bloody Disgusting - 22 Jan 2022 20:17
Director Chloe Okuno (“SLUT”, V/H/S/94's "Storm Drain") channels the likes of Roman Polanski and Alfred Hitchcock for her throwback style feature debut. Watcher preys on the paranoid vulnerability of an isolated woma...
"COVID Helped Us Discover a New Way to Create This Film" | Alex Pritz, The Territory
Filmmaker Magazine - 22 Jan 2022 20:15
The last two years have prompted much contemplation and reconsideration of the reasons why we make our films as well as the ways in which we make them. What aspect of your filmmaking--whether in your creative process, th...
Sundance 2022 Critic's Notebook: Mija, Mars One, Emergency
Filmmaker Magazine - 22 Jan 2022 20:00
When does a virtual film festival start? The types of film screenings, audience accommodations, parties, panels, social spaces, diversity and development programs, residencies, labs, medical procedures and contingency pl...
"My Hope Is That These Amazonian Voices Are Heard": Editor Carlos Rojas Felice on The Territory
Filmmaker Magazine - 22 Jan 2022 20:00
The Territory, which highlights ongoing conflicts in the Amazon between its Indigenous inhabitants and Brazilian politicians and businessmen, was co-produced by the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau community. The film thus grants first-ha...
"It's Always About Time and Not Having It": DP Greta Zozula on Summering
Filmmaker Magazine - 22 Jan 2022 19:45
With Summering, James Ponsoldt wanted to make a film that his young daughter would appreciate, and the result is a coming-of-age story about four girls planning one final weekend of fun before middle school. They unexpec...
"The Movie We Made Is Really Very Close to the Movie I Imagined": Editor Darrin Navarro on Summering
Filmmaker Magazine - 22 Jan 2022 19:30
Summering is James Ponsoldt’s ode to childhood in which four girls who discover something in the woods and make a questionable decision to keep it a secret and solve the mystery on their own. The coming-of-age story al...
"Perhaps It's a Miracle to Make Films" | Ricky D'Ambrose, The Cathedral
Filmmaker Magazine - 22 Jan 2022 19:15
The last two years have prompted much contemplation and reconsideration of the reasons why we make our films as well as the ways in which we make them. What aspect of your filmmaking--whether in your creative process, th...
Ana De Armas Fans File Lawsuit Over Actress' Cut Yesterday Role
Cinema Blend - 22 Jan 2022 19:07
After seeing a trailer for the film Yesterday, two fans were not happy to learn that the film did not actually include an appearance from Ana De Armas.