American Pastoral: Kelly Reichardt’s “First Cow”
“It’s not capturing grand landscapes, but people who have very small lives.”
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“It’s not capturing grand landscapes, but people who have very small lives.”
“I think the idea of being trapped in a house that won’t let you leave is an experience that every single human being on...
“He’s kind of a living embodiment of the idea that our future will be better, and I think people need that right now.”
Director Natalie Erika James explains she wanted to use “a multigenerational story to create a character driven, emotionally resonant horror.”
“ knew exactly what to do,” says “Hamilton” director Thomas Kail. “My job was to not get in the way of that.”
“We didn’t know at the end of all of this whether or not there would be a place that would embrace the kind of...
Inspired by true stories, Apple TV+ anthology series uses stylized, dramatized vignettes to go beyond the headlines.
“When you’re in a Shirley Jackson story you sort of descend from a reality into a dream and you sort of don’t know when...
“It’s very clearly the case that technology and technological advances are happening at a rate that we are not able to keep up with.”
“Only Spike will jump up and celebrate like the Knicks have scored when it’s a great edit.”
"The film closes the distance between people by inviting close looking, and in turn close feeling, and allows the audience the feeling of witnessing...
“I wanted to signal that we are telling a familiar story. One you’ve probably seen before. But we’re going to be as inventive and...
The revolution will be not be telemarketed.
The HBO series "incorporates and commingles animation, documentary, confession, satire, music video, and magic-realist fantasia."
Cianfrance brought his naturalistic approach to the series, eschewing rehearsals and much of the planning that often goes into narrative filmmaking in favor of...
Through many interviews and a trove of archival materials, the HBO series focuses on these murders, the victims and those they left behind.
A visionary media critic and public access television host, Marion Stokes sought to create a comprehensive archive of American television that would one day...
The film, director Marilyn Ness says, addresses "the most challenging questions facing police, citizens and the leaders tasked with protecting them."
The complexity of the shot required detailed storyboards, a special set house built with removable walls, and a precisely timed choreography.
“A mirror-lined chamber populated with a dazzling and seemingly vast array of LED lights creating a disorienting sense of limitless space”
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“Nothing beats reality. From the first day of shooting the subjects, we realized that we’d never know how the days would end up and...
“Ryan wanted the obvious glitz and glamour but also to pull back the gilded curtain of Hollywood and expose the darker side of sex...
“Leigh and I really loved how artificial and austere the motion control camera moves were,” says cinematographer Stefan Duscio
“Staying true to the intent of the book, while also doing the things necessary to make it a viable miniseries, it was kind of...
“I assumed these images were staged for a science fiction film, but when I learned that this is in fact a real structure, and...
“Many times he will describe what he wants to shoot and I will think ‘that’s going to be really difficult,’ but somehow we always...
Series DP David Mullen discusses the cinematography behind the Emmy-winning series, now in its third season on Amazon Prime.
“Believe the hype: The film is beautiful and shattering, a paean to the female gaze that’s shot by women, directed by a woman, and...
“Condensing the action of one day in the life of someone at the lowest rung of the power hierarchy into an hour-and-a-half cinematic experience...
Director Benh Zeitlin: “Life should be a great adventure!”
“The film isn’t a closed-off piece; it allows for a space, a crack through which the spectator can enter and exit.”
“More like an avant-garde comedy special or a particularly cool TED Talk than a traditional doc”
“It just felt like an amazing challenge, to make this world about a young woman that needs to be taken seriously."
"It’s not about you having all the right ideas. As a director, it’s about how can we have the same goal and collaborate on...
“The challenge was to create a new type of series that looks at the pathology of animal people and the ethics of keeping exotic...
“My editor was like, ‘Man, you bit off a lot with this one. It's in a different language, it's period, it's a...
“You see that a group of folks with disabilities can rally around and be incredibly savvy and make some incredible decisions and plans and...
“I told all my departments,” explains “Emma.” director Autumn de Wilde, “the colors need to feel edible.”
“We liked the idea of small-town Maine as a kind of ‘alternative Wild West’—a remote, on-the-fringe place with its own rules, familiar but still...
Filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie team with acclaimed cinematographer Darius Khondji for a high stakes thriller set in the Diamond District of New York...
Go inside the imaginations of directors like Spike Jonze, Michael Gondry, Dave Meyers, Dom & Nic, and OK Go’s resident genius Trish Sie