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Happy birthday, Noah Baumbach! Check out our interview with the writer-director about how his favorite films, his collaborators, and the influence of Stephen Sondheim guided him in the making of MARRIAGE STORY.
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Reality and fantasy, dreams and memories flow freely into one another in the haunting, layered works of iconoclastic auteur Carlos Saura, arguably the most important Spanish filmmaker to emerge between Luis Buñuel and Pedro Almodóvar.
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Unfolding in a handheld-shot rush of richly impressionistic images, LATE AUGUST, EARLY SEPTEMBER—starring Mathieu Amalric and Virginie Ledoyen—charts the delicate shifts in relationships that occur as subtly and inexorably as the changing of the seasons.
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Michael Schultz is unique in Hollywood. At 83, and still directing TV, the man behind “Cooley High,” “Car Wash” and “Krush Groove” is likely the longest-working Black director in history. We had a series of talks about his 50 years in the business.
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"This is a great, trippy animated film. The visuals are amazing, but it made my list because of the soundtrack. It’s pretty much one musical theme played fifteen different ways, which is a cool exercise. I would love to do a score like this one day."
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"To me KOYAANISQATSI paints a clear picture of society and our unbreakable relationship with technology. It’s brutal, beautiful, and relentless. The film also turned me on to Philip Glass, whose score dominates the senses."
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"THIS IS SPINAL TAP is one of the funniest movies ever. Christopher Guest and his crew have a great track record of hilarity, and it started here. . .Though it’s a mockumentary, I’d venture to say it’s one of the greatest rock docs of all time."
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"There is a whole emotional and visceral universe that can be tapped into with the right sound design, and this film does a great job of forcing the audience to listen to things differently. There’s a lot of sonic space in it."
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"I’m not sure if this was in the script at all, but we came up with a backstory for that costume—it was supposed to be vintage, maybe her grandma’s teenage dress that the girls found in the attic somewhere."
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"Todd gave me complete freedom for Lester. The only direction he gave me was that Lester was afraid of everything. I thought he would cover himself completely so that nothing could touch him.I tried a few different looks made up of thermals and thrift-store pieces."
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"Costume design can be very psychological...You have to look at where people are in their lives and what’s influencing them. What are they listening to? I always like to ask actors what kind of music they think their character listens to."
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"FAYA DAYI is a dream to be returned to again and again, with each viewing revealing a previously unseen visual gem nestled amid others." Read on 's trance-inducing feature debut—a lyrical study of a farming community in Ethiopia.
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"FAYA DAYI is a dream to be returned to again and again, with each viewing revealing a previously unseen visual gem nestled amid others." Read on 's trance-inducing feature debut—a lyrical study of a farming community in Ethiopia.
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