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The Black List Founder Franklin Leonard on AI, Transparency, and Knowing Your Favorite Films

"It is a deeply courageous thing to share something you’ve written, that is 100 or more pages long, and ask…

4 weeks ago
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With Breathe, Stefon Bristol Aims for Spike Lee Meets Steven Spielberg

Breathe director Stefon Bristol’s love for sci-fi began with Jurassic Park. As he grew up and thought about how, as…

1 month ago
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Eli Roth Q&A on Thanksgiving, ‘the Only Critic That Matters,’ and Protecting Cats

Thanksgiving director Eli Roth is known for merciless horror, but he has his limits. He'll peel the skin off a…

3 months ago
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In Dandelions, a Filmmaker Meets the Secret Russian Father He Never Knew — Camera In Hand

When Dandelions filmmaker Basil Mironer first got a Facebook message telling him he had a secret father in Russia, he…

4 months ago
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June Squibb on Being a Breakout Sundance Star at 94 for Thelma: ‘The World Has Changed’

Thelma star June Squibb’s moment in the spotlight is a long time coming. Squibb’s acting career began in 1948 at…

4 months ago
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True Detective: Night Country Director Issa López on Closing a Flat Circle With Jodie Foster

"Time is a flat circle," Matthew McConaughey told us in the 2014 first season of True Detective. A decade later,…

5 months ago
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‘Let’s Make Something Together’: Director and Vanishing Angle VP Natalie Metzger on the Advantages of Short Films

Natalie Metzger loves short films for a lot of reasons: As a writer-director, she loves telling a tight, punchy story.…

5 months ago
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The Color Purple Director Blitz Bazawule on Manifesting Sisterhood Through Song

One of the signature lines of Steven Spielberg’s 1985 adaptation of The Color Purple is when Squeak indignantly asks Harpo,…

5 months ago
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With Finestkind Oscar Winner Brian Helgeland Goes Back to His Fishing Past

Finestkind writer-director Brian Helgeland was working on a fishing boat when he spotted a book, nearly 40 years ago, about…

5 months ago
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With Rustin, George C. Wolfe Brings a Civil Rights Hero Out of the Shadows

You might not know a thing about Bayard Rustin, the architect of the 1963 March on Washington that brought the…

6 months ago