Author: Jack Giroux
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What The Night Before Director Jonathan Levine Learned Making Five Feature Films
“Whenever people are reverse-engineering a film [for an audience], the audience can fucking feel it,” director Jonathan Levine says, as we walk into the hotel…
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6 Acting Tips From Michael Keaton
Fox Searchlight Michael Keaton is an American treasure. We all love Michael Keaton. We may not all love White Noise or Desperate Measure, but no…
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6 Filmmaking Tips From David Gordon Green
A $40,000 feature, which was rejected from Sundance, launched David Gordon Green’s career. Green wrote and directed his first picture, George Washington, at the age…
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The Stories and Monsters That Inspired Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak
Crimson Peak is one costly horror movie. The Blumhouse model ‐ small risk, high reward ‐ has taken over the genre. We don’t see $20–30…
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Guillermo del Toro on Making a Classic Gothic Romance with Crimson Peak
Universal Pictures We don’t see many movies like Crimson Peak nowadays. Not only because it’s not a sequel or a found-footage horror movie, but because…
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7 Filmmaking Tips from Danny Boyle
Direct from Boyle’s panel promoting ‘Trance’ at the 2013 SXSW Film Festival, we compiled advice from the Oscar-winning director.
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Why You Won’t See a Superhero Movie From Karyn Kusama Anytime Soon
Screen Gems The Invitation is fantastic. There’s a reason why we haven’t shut up about the film since its South by Southwest premiere, because director…
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Patrick Wilson: “When Kurt Russell Looks At You, You See His Soul”
RLJ Entertainment Patrick Wilson has starred in musicals, dramas, romantic comedies, action movies, and a comic book adaptation. Now, with Bone Tomahawk, the versatile actor…
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Brit Marling on the Surprising Reason The Keeping Room Shocks Audiences
Drafthouse Films The Keeping Room is a rare Western in that its main cast is women. Set toward the end of the civil war, the…