Ashby director Tony McNamara
An excerpt from an interview I did with Ashby writer/director Tony McNamara for Filmmaker Magazine. The film stars Nat Wolff as a suburban Virginia high schooler taken under the wing […]
The Gift cinematographer Edu Grau
Beginning with this chat with A Single Man and The Gift cinematographer Edu Grau, I’ll be doing a weekly interview column for Filmmaker Magazine entitled Shutter Angles. In The Gift, Jason […]
Five Frames with Body Parts writer/director Eric Red
I turned 13 in the winter of 1990. It’s not a touchstone of youth with many official perks. There’s no driver’s license. No right to vote. No bars. Just skin […]
VHS Video Cover Art author Tom Hodge
When my dad plunked down a few bucks at a rent-to-own store to take home his first VCR, he and I christened it with a double-bill of AIP’s Frogs and […]
12 Angry Men Inside Amy Schumer cinematographer Jonathan Furmanski
“Women don’t need orgasms. It’s science.” – Juror #10 (Paul Giamatti) Back in February a trolling movie critic questioned whether comedian Amy Schumer could possibly stir the loins of male […]
Cake cinematographer Rachel Morrison
From the moment she began hijacking the family camera as a grade schooler, there was little doubt Rachel Morrison would live her life peering at the world through a viewfinder. […]
On the Road: The Aut-O-Rama Twin Drive-In Theatre
Furious 7 may boast an $190 million budget and a billion dollars in worldwide box office receipts, but it’s still essentially a drive-in B-movie sold on car chases and girls, fistfights […]
Steadicam operator Larry McConkey talks his Goodfellas Copacabana shot
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the release of Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas, a film that had such an impact on me as a 12-year-old that – a quarter century later – I still distinctly remember the first time I saw it. It was on HBO and the broadcast began well after midnight yet I stayed up all night to see it through […]
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