Filmmaker Magazine

12/06/2024

Michael Premo discusses his doc about Trump supporters in the lead-up to the 2020 election, "Homegrown." The doc opens today at New York's DCTV Firehouse Cinema.

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12/05/2024

David Lowery on making his new CG animated Christmas short for Disney.

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12/05/2024

A report on some of the American independent films showcased at his year's US in Progress festival.

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12/04/2024

Magnus van Horn discusses shooting his Copenhagen-set "The Girl with the Needle" in Poland.

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12/04/2024

Michael Shannon is the guest on this week's Back to One podcast.

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11/27/2024

Lauren Wissot on some of the winning films at this year's IDFA.

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11/26/2024

A panel on "No Other Land," narrative sovereignty and solidarity.

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11/24/2024

Spoke to Rachel Seed about her lovely cross-generational dialogue of a doc, "A Photographic Memory," now playing in NY at DCTV's Firehouse Cinema. https://filmmakermagazine.com/128046-rachel-seed-a-photographic-memory/

11/22/2024

Malcolm Washington on his feature directorial debut, "The Piano Lesson."

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11/18/2024

Emily Mkrtichian on "There Was, There Was Not," which makes its New York premiere this week at DOC NYC.

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11/15/2024

Vadim Rizov reports on this year's Tokyo International Film Festival.

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11/15/2024

18 titles we're recommending out of DOC NYC.

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11/12/2024

Filmmaker Thomas Torrey talks abandoning his planned second feature to quickly make a different picture, a music drama in which all the songs were recorded live on set. Read about "Long December," out today.

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11/12/2024

Filmmaker and actor Jack Dunphy, of the new Talkhouse podcast, "Revelations with Jack Dunphy," is guest on our own Back to One with Peter Rinaldi this week.

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11/11/2024

"Bird" director Andrea Arnold talks working from her unconscious when she conceives of and writes her movies.

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11/11/2024

From our last issue, Johan Grimonprez on his "Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat."

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11/08/2024

With Tyler Taormina's recommended comedy/drama of holiday celebration and excess now in theaters from IFC Films, a repost of our interview with the director of "Christmas Eve in Miller's Point."

Please note that there are additional showtimes of CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER’S POINT that screen with open captions (on-screen display of dialogue and sounds). For those showtimes, click here.Four generations of the Balsano family gather for what may be the last Christmas in their family home on Lon...

11/07/2024

Alan Rudolph takes a look back at "Breakfast of Champions," his time working with Robert Altman and much more.

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