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'Messing with the Machine': Jacques Audiard on Palme d'or-Winning 'Dheepan'

"The genre of the film slowly evolves at the same rate that the characters are evolving." French auteur Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, Rust & Bone) sat down with No Film School at AFI 2015 to discuss...

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Using Non-Actors to Push Reality Boundaries

Aren't we all actors, anyway? Last spring, a strange thing happened: I walked into my garage and stumbled upon my roommate building an AR-15 rifle. This, naturally, led me into a line of questioning:...

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'Graduation': Cristian Mungiu on 'Preserving Life's Ambiguity' with Realist...

Cristian Mungiu explains how he "respects reality" in his narrative films—but that fiction is more fair than documentary. Cristian Mungiu's Palme d'Or-winning drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days is...

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'I, Daniel Blake' Writer Paul Laverty on Climbing the 'Enormous Mountain' of...

Paul Laverty faced the challenge of dramatizing bureaucracy in Cannes-winning I, Daniel Blake. At Cannes last year, a single film took critics and audiences alike by storm. Palme d'Or winner I, Daniel...

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'Lovesong': Why You Should Make Your First Film 'Exactly How You Envision It'

Director So Yong Kim: 'We thought that we'd capture something — or maybe not. It was a big gamble.' Making its premiere at Sundance 2016, Lovesong follows the intimate, long-time friendship between...

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Watch: Forget Realism, Embrace Formalism

Your film, your world, your rules. Realism is favored everywhere in today's film world. Even as we march headfirst into an endless parade of comic book movies and sci-fi spinoffs, the popular choice...

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The Dardenne Brothers' List of 79 Favorite Movies is a Masterclass in Realism

Add all of these to your must-watch list immediately. When the comfortable sheen of fiction quickly gives way to the unsettling currents of reality, you know you're watching a Dardennes film. Brothers...

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Watch: The Keys to Tobe Hooper's Horror in 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'

Real blood, dead animals, and unrelenting tension are just a few of the ingredients that will keep 'Chainsaw' terrifying forever. The world mourned the loss of pioneer horror filmmaker Tobe Hooper...

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How the Dardennes 'Anchor Movies in Reality' with Long Takes and...

With 'The Unknown Girl,' Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have crafted a suspenseful moral tale about the consequences of inaction. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne don't mind if the camera misses some...

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'Messing with the Machine': Jacques Audiard on Palme d'or-Winning 'Dheepan'

"The genre of the film slowly evolves at the same rate that the characters are evolving." French auteur Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, Rust & Bone) sat down with No Film School at AFI 2015 to discuss...

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Using Non-Actors to Push Reality Boundaries

Aren't we all actors, anyway? Last spring, a strange thing happened: I walked into my garage and stumbled upon my roommate building an AR-15 rifle. This, naturally, led me into a line of questioning:...

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'Graduation': Cristian Mungiu on 'Preserving Life's Ambiguity' with Realist...

Cristian Mungiu explains how he "respects reality" in his narrative films—but that fiction is more fair than documentary. Cristian Mungiu's Palme d'Or-winning drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days is...

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'I, Daniel Blake' Writer Paul Laverty on Climbing the 'Enormous Mountain' of...

Paul Laverty faced the challenge of dramatizing bureaucracy in Cannes-winning I, Daniel Blake. At Cannes last year, a single film took critics and audiences alike by storm. Palme d'Or winner I, Daniel...

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'Lovesong': Why You Should Make Your First Film 'Exactly How You Envision It'

Director So Yong Kim: 'We thought that we'd capture something — or maybe not. It was a big gamble.' Making its premiere at Sundance 2016, Lovesong follows the intimate, long-time friendship between...

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Watch: Forget Realism, Embrace Formalism

Your film, your world, your rules. Realism is favored everywhere in today's film world. Even as we march headfirst into an endless parade of comic book movies and sci-fi spinoffs, the popular choice...

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The Dardenne Brothers' List of 79 Favorite Movies is a Masterclass in Realism

Add all of these to your must-watch list immediately. When the comfortable sheen of fiction quickly gives way to the unsettling currents of reality, you know you're watching a Dardennes film. Brothers...

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Watch: The Keys to Tobe Hooper's Horror in 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'

Real blood, dead animals, and unrelenting tension are just a few of the ingredients that will keep 'Chainsaw' terrifying forever. The world mourned the loss of pioneer horror filmmaker Tobe Hooper...

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How the Dardennes 'Anchor Movies in Reality' with Long Takes and...

With 'The Unknown Girl,' Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have crafted a suspenseful moral tale about the consequences of inaction. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne don't mind if the camera misses some...

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Watch: How Stanislavski Reinvented Acting

We have Konstantin Stanislavski to thank for the naturalism of modern performance. For most of recorded history, acting was, simply put, a performative act. The theater was a place of grandiosity,...

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Watch: How to Effectively Use a Smartphone in Your Movie

Do smartphones provide filmmakers with the opportunities to organically incorporate technology into their stories? Whether filmmakers like it or not, smartphones are here to stay. I'd even hazard a...

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