Lena Dunham Never Asked to Be the Voice of Women’s Sexuality Onscreen
Quick-witted, self-deprecating, and unafraid to show human bodies doing all sorts of things, Lena Dunham never set out to define women’s sexuality. It simply interested her as a fruitful avenue of...
View ArticleHaving Finland Stand in for the U.S. Gave an Offbeat Veneer to Riley Stearns’...
Riley Stearns has proven himself a master of off-kilter world building. Both his last feature, the Jesse Eisenberg starrer “The Art of Self Defense,” and “Dual,” which recently premiered at the...
View ArticleHow Bill Nighy and Aimee Lou Wood Helped Remake ‘Ikiru’ in Oliver...
In “Living,” director Oliver Hermanus delivers a new take on Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 classic “Ikiru,” swapping Tokyo for London and Takashi Shimura for Bill Nighy in the lead role. With a script from...
View ArticleHow Amy Poehler Found a New Angle Into ‘I Love Lucy’ for Documentary ‘Lucy...
When Amy Poehler was first approached by Ron Howard to direct a documentary about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, she was interested but cautious. Though “I Love Lucy” was only on the air for five...
View ArticleDylan Southern and Will Lovelace Assembled a ‘Collage’ of Early-2000s Rock in...
Years in the making, Lizzy Goodman’s oral history of the New York City rock scene between 2001 and 2011, “Meet Me In The Bathroom,” excited filmmakers Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace when they first...
View Article‘Coming 2 America’ Honored the Original’s Makeup and Hairstyling but Found...
Consider This: Conversations highlight film’s award-worthy productions through panel discussions with the artists themselves. The above video is presented by Amazon Studios and hosted by Jim Hemphill....
View ArticleHow to Combine Sci-Fi with a Western? The ‘Outer Range’ Team Explains at the...
Sometimes, for a television crafts artist, genre can make your job a lot easier. Science fiction and westerns are both genres with distinct enough aesthetics to provide a starting point when designing...
View ArticleWatch ‘Wednesday’ Crafts Team Discuss Bringing the ‘Addams Family’ Icon to...
“Wednesday” is one of the biggest hits in Netflix history. An old-meets-new instant classic that pairs a stunning lead performance by Jenna Ortega with the moody atmosphere fans around the world have...
View ArticleJane Levy Filmed an Abortion Scene in ‘A Little Prayer’ the Day Roe v. Wade...
Jane Levy’s character in Angus MacLachlan’s new film “A Little Prayer” makes the difficult choice to have an abortion, something that comes as a shock to her small-town community and her in-laws with...
View ArticleFranz Rogowski on ‘Passages’: ‘Love, Sometimes, Is Ridiculous and Painful’
“Passages,” Ira Sachs’ bruising eighth feature, almost seems like it’s headed toward a kind of origin story of his own relationship in real life: This film, co-written with Mauricio Zacharias forms a...
View Article‘Cassandro’ Gave Gael García Bernal a Different Superhero Experience from His...
At the 2023 Sundance Film Festival to promote his new Amazon Studios film “Cassandro,” Gael García Bernal is excited for his fans to see a story about a gay athlete that was embraced by the macho world...
View ArticleWatch ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Crafts Team on Defying War Movie...
In Edward Berger’s “All Quiet on the Western Front,” one of the most famous anti-war stories gets a 21st century makeover. The second adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel, Berger’s film...
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