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“Remake” Confronts a Father’s Grief and a Filmmaker’s Responsibility
The ethical core of “Remake” is McElwee’s own cinematic practice, a subject that has come to the fore in previous films of his, when…
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The Twenty-Six-Year-Old Behind “Obsession,” a Terrifying Tale of a Crush Gone Awry
“It starts from a very innocent place with Bear. I wanted it to be relatable. We’ve all had a crush on someone who didn’t like us…
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Elle Fanning Gets Maternal
The Oscar-nominated actress discusses collaborating with Nicole Kidman, the art of playing a performer, and her new series, “Margo’s Got…
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In Film, Sometimes the Greatest Drama Is Offscreen
Directing movies is also a matter of production—of the interpersonal, the administrative, and the technical practicalities that go into…
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What a “Melania” Cinematographer Hoped to Accomplish
What did you make of the President and Melania? And what’s different about filming a movie in the White House or on Air Force One? Well,…
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One Last Sundance in Park City
I encountered a version of this phenomenon on the first morning of my first Sundance. Trying to find my way around festival headquarters,…
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Nouvelle Vague Finds the Secret of Filmmaking | National Review
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Chloé Zhao Has Looked Into the Void
How did this book make its way to you? I was driving through New Mexico to the Telluride Film Festival, and that’s when Amblin called me…
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How Noah Baumbach Fell (Back) in Love with the Movies
It was somewhere on a deserted highway in Ohio at about 4 A.M., with a rain machine, while I was shooting “White Noise.” I think I felt,…
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“Megadoc” Shows Francis Ford Coppola Going for Broke on “Megalopolis”
Figgis comments that Coppola uses the script as a mere premise, and he likens Coppola’s approach to it as “instinctive,” calling the…
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A Glow of Discovery in the Chill of Sundance
The Sundance Film Festival has long established itself as the most important showcase for American independent cinema, piping out work…
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How “Nickel Boys” Critiques the Camera in America Cinema
Taken together, three recent films provoke a profound questioning of how and why we guard the border walls separating documentaries from…
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Leos Carax’s Self-Portrait Film “It’s Not Me” Is So Him
Fully half of the best films ever—from Charlie Chaplin’s to Claude Lanzmann’s—are replete with cinematic selfies. Yet they are rare over…
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The Best Movies of 2024
A year ago, I wasn’t sanguine about the state of ultra-low-budget filmmaking; this year, the D.I.Y. domain accounts for many of the best…