A renaissance of female filmmakers producing works of substance and volume with accomplished storytelling and filmmaking prowess suggests an industry sea change.…
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Read MoreThe Oscars face diminished cultural relevance in a modern era where nominated films largely lack prestige and the notion of Hollywood grandeur has long since faded to black. Here's why.…
Read MoreI sat down with director/writer/producer Michael Angelo Covino and writer Kyle Marvin at Google HQ to discuss The Climb, their film about a tumultuous but enduring friendship.…
Read MoreInto the Wild: Benh Zeitlin on Filmmaking as Exploration of Faraway Lands, Childhood Wonders
Benh Zeitlin’s Oscar-nominated, 2012 masterpiece Beasts of the Southern Wild was a preternaturally accomplished first feature, a richly evocative portrait of a young girl’s coming of age in a Louisiana delta that was part social, and part magical, realism. As a most deserving Best…
Read More“A Great Way to Live a Life”: Just Mercy Stars Karan Kendrick and Tim Blake Nelson on Illuminating Real-Life Drama
In Just Mercy, young, Harvard-educated attorney Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) eschews a big law firm career in favor of starting a life-changing Alabama organization dedicated to exonerating wrongly accused death row inmates. It’s a strong, thoughtful and moving drama with as good an…
Read MoreFilmmaker Tom Harper on Flying High with The Aeronauts’ Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne
Filmmaker Tom Harper on Flying High with The Aeronauts’ Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne Filmmaker Tom Harper is having quite a year, first with Wild Rose, about a Glasgow ex-con nursing a dream of becoming a Nashville country star, and now his new picture…
Read MoreTrey Edward Shults, Kelvin Harrison, Jr. and Taylor Russell Make Waves in Emotional Story of American Family
Trey Edwards Shults’ emotional Waves begins with a swirling camera capturing a moment ripped out of life, or time, in the romance of a south Florida teen couple who, for a brief moment, have what seems like about everything. They are young, smart, popular and…
Read MoreBreakout Star Thomasin McKenzie Balances Tenderness and Strength in Jojo Rabbit, Leave No Trace
It’s sometimes referred to as a once-in-a-generation talent. And it would not be an overstatement to say that nineteen-year-old New Zealand actress Thomasin Mckenzie, currently on screens in Taika Waititi’s jaunty wartime satire Jojo Rabbit and the gritty, Henry V monarchy drama The King,…
Read MoreMaiden Heroine Tracy Edwards Changed the World to Suit Herself, and Everyone Else, in Boundary Crossing Voyage—and Life
She was always going to do exactly what she wanted. At 15, British youth Tracy Edwards unceremoniously left an unhappy Wales home to start a new life in the Greek port of Piraeus, quickly finding work as a stewardess on a yacht cruising the…
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