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Brían F. O’Byrne and Ralph Fiennes in Conclave. Every Tuesday Tyler Coates publishes his new Filmmaker newsletter, Considerations, devoted to the awards race.
Fall 2024 - Filmmaker Magazine
The New You: Aaron Schimberg on A Different Man. Aaron Schimberg has always had a personal interest in facial disfigurement. The New York–based writer-director was born with a bilateral cleft lip and palate, along with other medical issues, and has spent the majority of his filmmaking career grappling with people’s perception of him.
Winter 2024 - Filmmaker Magazine
The Passionate Epicures: The Taste of Things Director Tran Anh Hung Interviewed by Frederick Wiseman A long-gestating passion project for Tran Anh Hung, The Taste of Things takes as its starting point Marcel Rouff’s eccentric, echt-French novel The Life and Passion of Dodin-Bouffant, Gourmet, which follows Dodin-Bouffant in the wake of the death of his longtime cook and occasional sexual ...
Spring 2024 - Filmmaker Magazine
“I Hope It’ll Be Comforting to Trans People, Because the Butterfly Narrative Leaves Out the Reality of the Experience”: I Saw the TV Glow Director Jane Schoenbrun Interviewed by Gregg Araki “I often don’t remember my dreams, and so when I do, I’ve learned to listen to what my subconscious could be trying to tell me,” director Jane Schoenbrun told Filmmaker in …
Winter 2025 - Filmmaker Magazine
Dec 16, 2024 · Hits & Misses 2024: Case Studies of Six Sundance 2024 Premieres. In September, Variety declared, “Indie Films Are Staging a Box Office Comeback,” touting the success of the films Longlegs, Thelma and Late Night with the Devil as signs of life for a segment of the industry “crushed by COVID, strikes and streaming,” as reporter Brent Lang wrote.
Cinema is Not a Sport: My End of the Year List, 2024
Dec 18, 2024 · At the end of each year comes the excitement of listing my favorite released films. This is a moment where I like to reflect on the status of modern cinema. When great films populate my list, ones that make my heart pound, I become alit with hope. Great is the desire to believe in the work being ...
“Musicals Are the Hardest Thing I Could Ever Cut”: Editor Myron ...
Dec 12, 2024 · For Myron Kerstein, whose work on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s feature debut Tick, Tick… Boom! earned him a 2022 Oscar nomination for best editing, cutting a musical number is no different than any other scene in a movie. With Wicked, the editor’s third collaboration with director Jon M. Chu (following Crazy Rich Asians and In the Heights), Kerstein had roughly 250 hours of footage to assemble ...
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Summer 2023 - Filmmaker Magazine
Decisive Moments: Earth Mama Director Savanah Leaf in Conversation with Derek Cianfrance There are two long back-and-forth tracking shots in Savanah Leaf’s wise, emotionally full debut feature, Earth Mama. In the first, the pregnant Gia—a 24-year-old Oakland single mother fighting for custody of the two young children she already has lost to state-sponsored foster care—purposefully ...
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 ...