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Top 10: MovieMaker’s Top 10 films of 2012 (list 1 of 2)
So, I figured out that I have seen 37 movies this year that I liked enough to consider putting them on this list. 37! That’s a lot, right? That’s like, a movie every ten days or so. That’s not how I...
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Top 10: MovieMaker’s second, and perhaps even more pretentious, “Best Films...
This is my first year with MovieMaker. Accordingly, when I sat down to mull over my 2012 Top 10 films list, I needed, first, to define my role as a critic and trend-arbiter. But what the hell is my...
View Article2013 Forecast: My premature “Ten Best” list for 2013 by Josh Ralske
You can either look at January as a studio dumping ground and a wasteland, or you can see it as full of potential for the coming year. I’m not going to pretend to be able to guess what those crazy...
View ArticleRotterdam 2013: Hivos Tiger Award-winner Daniel Hoesl discusses Soldate...
The 2013 International Film Festival Rotterdam, as always, awarded some of the most progressive young filmmakers in the world with the coveted Hivos Tiger Award. In this dispatch, MovieMaker chats with...
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Fake Independence and Reel Truth, Pt. 1: Ray Carney’s incendiary film...
As Filmmaker Magazine reported in its latest issue, the seminal expert on John Cassavetes’ oeuvre, Ray Carney, has refused to relinquish control of a cache of experimental film prints belonging to the...
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Fake Independence and Reel Truth, Pt. 2: A look back at the criticism of Ray...
Read Part 1 We want our knowledge easy. We want experiences that will snap like Legos into place with what we are already familiar with. But that’s what great art never does. It gets us out of our old...
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Interiors Journal: Haneke’s Amour by Interiors Journal
Every month, Interiors Journal dissects the floorplan of a film set to investigate the relationship between space and action. This month they’re focusing their attention on Michael Haneke’s Academy...
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Fake Independence and Reel Truth, Pt. 3: Plastic emotions and lite art by Ray...
Read Part 1 Read Part 2 Read Part 4 Surely I’m not the only person in America weary of stylistic games and jokes. I can’t be the only one who wants a movie to teach me something, to change me—not...
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Fake Independence and Reel Truth, Pt. 4: Approaching a film set with a truly...
Read Part 1 Read Part 2 Read Part 3 My favorite metaphor for thinking about artists is as students and teachers. (Since I’m a teacher, I admit that my occupation probably biases me.) Like students and...
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East of Eden: Megan Griffiths’ harrowing tale of sex-trafficking and survival...
Eden, Megan Griffiths’ stunning new film, exists within the perverted—and unsettlingly pervasive—world of human sex trafficking. A lucrative global industry, the CIA estimates that 50,000 women and...
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The Way, Way Back: Coming of Age in Hollywood by Kyle Rupprecht
Young adulthood has long represented a rich source of inspiration for moviemakers. This confusing and confused life stage offers moviemakers ample room for gross-out comedy, tender drama, tragedy and...
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