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@filmmakermagazine.comHugo Emmerzael speaks to Isabelle Stever and Anna Melikova about balancing fragile tenderness with political urgency in I RARELY WAKE UP DREAMING, now playing at the New York Film Festival. filmmaker.substack.com/p/isabelle-s...
@celizotte.bsky.socialReposted by @filmmakermagazine.comfrom TIFF, i wrote about VR, acting as a feat of strength, and the breath of fresh air that is Matt Barats!
@filmmakermagazine.com“So many movies this fall season are obsessed with arguing for cinema’s right to exist.”
Chloe Lizotte (@celizotte.bsky.social) on I PLAY ROCKY, ELSINORE, PRIMETIME, and Big Tech's imagined crisis of cinema. filmmaker.substack.com/p/soft-skill...
@coreyatad.comReposted by @filmmakermagazine.com“Defiance of simulacrum, defiance of verisimilitude—even in service of factual content—opens up new doors for image-making.”
for @filmmakermagazine.com, i interviewed Matthew Rankin about his hilarious, surreal dive into Canadian conservative political arcana, Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney
@dekanalog.bsky.socialReposted by @filmmakermagazine.comAMOEBA director Siyou Tan has been named one of @filmmakermagazine.com's 25 New Faces of Film 2026!
"Tan has an assured, intuitive sense of how to calibrate teenage mischief, angst, and sincerity."
AMOEBA opens in 2027 from Dekanalog.
@filmmakermagazine.com“Mocap allowed production to begin without knowing what the movie would look like.”
James N. Kienitz Wilkins writes about making his latest film, The Misconceived, with motion capture: ”a tool to characterize the fragmented digital society in which we live.”
filmmaker.substack.com/p/a-farewell...
@carolineavenue.bsky.socialReposted by @filmmakermagazine.comThis year's 25 New Faces interviews are up at the @filmmakermagazine.com Substack and as always I continue my tireless mission to secure North Hollywood's rightful place in film history filmmaker.substack.com/p/caroline-g...
@filmmakermagazine.com"You're continually incentivizing people to work on the wrong projects ... and you can obviously see the knock-on effects in what's actually getting made." — Daniel Goldhaber
Max Cea reports on the writer-director industrial complex:
@filmmakermagazine.com"[THE BATTLE OF CHILE] contains the passion and poetry of telling with real interest what the people were living."
To honor the passing of the great Chilean director Patricio Guzmán, we are revisiting Anthony Kaufman's 2020 interview with him:
@weard.moeReposted by @filmmakermagazine.comthank you so much to @filmmakermagazine.com <3 Proud to be alongside my fellow Canucks @avalonfast.bsky.social and @sophyromvari.bsky.social
@carolineavenue.bsky.socialReposted by @filmmakermagazine.comICYMI: this old head is honored to be among this year's 25 New Faces of Film in @filmmakermagazine.com!
A thousand thank-yous to @44getting.bsky.social and @celizotte.bsky.social for pole-vaulting me into the pantheon and David Cardoza + Dan Welch of Cashiers du Cinema or capturing my likeness!
@filmmakermagazine.comPleased to reveal @neon-rated.bsky.social's trailer for David Greaves’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM, which revisits footage shot in 1972 by his father, William Greaves, at a gathering of Harlem Renaissance luminaries. Find Greaves in conversation with Garrett Bradley in our fall issue, out soon!
@filmmakermagazine.comDolly Parton and Tim Curry were "extremely intentional about their presence in the culture, wanting to leave a meaningful mark rather than simply take up space."
In our weekly editor's letter,
@celizotte.bsky.social pens a remembrance of both performers:
@filmmakermagazine.com"Beverly understood how to communicate with filmmakers emotionally. That changed the entire culture." — Bradford Young
Kya Lou moderates a roundtable with film chemist Beverly Wood and cinematographer Bradford Young on the alchemy of color correction:
@filmmakermagazine.comTake a deep dive into the world of Niu Lai, a bolt from the blue, outsider art blockbuster. @celizotte.bsky.social writes in our weekly editor's letter:
@filmmakermagazine.comAn essay about Ari Aster would come back to haunt Sophie Lewis in ways she couldn't have predicted.
@kimkelly.bsky.social interviews Lewis about the movie review that was unexpectedly introduced as evidence in the Prairieland ICE Detention Facility case:
@dwhdaily.bsky.socialReposted by @filmmakermagazine.comDavid Lynch @latimes.com, Fatih Akin @nybooks.com, Samy Burch @filmmakermagazine.com, Francis Ford Coppola @ Metrograph, Adam Curtis @thequietus.com …
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@filmmakermagazine.com"I saw the area as a stage for their ever-shifting relationship. [...] At times, it can seem like heaven; at other times, like hell." — Kiyoshi Kurosawa on THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER.
Jawni Han ( @kimchimarx.bsky.social ) speaks with the J-horror auteur:
@filmmakermagazine.com"It's important to me that these works are earnest—not sentimental, but not coming from a place of cynicism."
—Jane Schoenbrun.
From our summer issue, Grace Byron interviews the director of TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA:
@jonahjeng.bsky.socialReposted by @filmmakermagazine.comFor those who missed it, I examined the work of indie action pioneer @ericjacobus.bsky.social for @filmmakermagazine.com.
