“You Provide Everything That’s in Every Shot”: Production Designer Sara K White and Director Susanna Fogel
The Flight Attendant Ahead of the first-ever International Production Design Week, the Production Designers Collective has coordinated a series of interviews with directors and production designers, in which they discuss their working dynamics and mutual passion for the craft of…
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‘The Persian Version’s Maryam Keshavarz on Bringing the Story to Life
The Big Picture Director Maryam Keshavarz explores immigrant experiences and the complexities of family relationships in her comedy-drama The Persian Version. The film follows Leila and her journey to discover her parents' true reasons for moving to America, revealing a…
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Bridging Past and Present Amidst Israel’s Turmoil with Mishory, Schoenberg Featured, Interviews, News Film Threat
In reflection with Fioretta’s director Matthew Mishory and subject Randy Schoenberg While art can often imitate life, it’s a rare film that can intersect with reality or current affairs to connect its purpose beyond the filmgoing audience. The documentary Fioretta,…
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Goosebumps Producers Discuss Season One and How to Make a Good Reboot
R.L. Stine published 62 little books in the Goosebumps franchise between 1992 and 1997, turning the classic horror and sci-fi of The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits into a hit YA series, long before YA franchises dominated the libraries.…
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“We Had to Row a Kayak to the Camera Truck to Save the Film Cans”: Director Derek Cianfrance and Production Designer Inbal Weinberg
Production designer Inbal Weinberg and writer-director Derek Cianfrance Ahead of the launch of the first-ever International Production Design Week, the Production Designers Collective has coordinated a series of meetings between directors and production designers in which they discuss the particularities…
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Tim Miller on Comic Book Movies, ‘Best Served Cold’ with Rebecca Ferguson
The Big Picture Tim Miller believes there is still plenty of life left in the superhero genre and that there are many different types of stories to be told beyond men and women in tights. Miller mentions his favorite recent…
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“The Price of Making a Movie is That I Have to Direct It”: Todd Solondz on Happiness
Happiness Todd Solondz’s indelible Happiness was released 25 years ago today. Filmmaker is reposting here its interview with Solondz, the cover story of our Fall 1998 issue. — Editor Winner of the Critic’s Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival,…
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‘Suitable Flesh’s Joe Lynch on Making a Movie With “Madness & Body Swapping”
The Big Picture Joe Lynch's Suitable Flesh is a body-swap horror movie based on the H.P. Lovecraft story, The Thing on the Doorstep. Heather Graham leads as Dr. Elizabeth Derby, a psychiatrist who finds herself in the middle of a…
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The Delinquents Filmmaker Rodrigo Moreno Discusses Existentialism and Fables
Evolving the played-out cinematic scenario of a bank robbery into a well-thought-out and provocative message on living to serve versus living to live, Argentine writer and director Rodrigo Moreno scored a huge win with both critics and audiences alike with…
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‘Once Upon A Studio’ Directors on Creating a Short for the Disney 100
The Big Picture Once Upon A Studio is a short film celebrating the 100th anniversary of Walt Disney Animation Studios, featuring 543 characters from over 85 Disney films. The short combines hand-drawn and CG animation, taking the audience on a…
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‘The Walking Dead Daryl Dixon’ Showrunner on That Epic Season Finale
The Big Picture Showrunner David Zabel discusses the freedom of focusing on Daryl Dixon's individual story in "The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon" spin-off series, allowing for a different kind of storytelling within the larger universe. Zabel highlights the collaborative relationship…
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Stephen Dorff on His Uniquely Experimental New Film Divinity
What would it take to achieve immortality of the body and mind? A new experimental feature by innovative filmmaker Eddie Alcazar explores this idea to thrilling and mind-bending effect. Divinity features a stellar cast, including veteran actor Stephen Dorff (Blade,…
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