MovieMaker Magazine

MovieMaker is a U.S. magazine dedicated to the craft and industry of filmmaking, particularly highlighting independent cinema. Established in 1993 by Timothy Rhys, it started as a local publication in Seattle. The magazine is released four times a year and is now headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

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Bring Her Back Directors on the Horror of Watching Their New A24 Release with an Audience

1 week ago | moviemaker.com | Greg Gilman

A24’s new horror release Bring Her Back is so scary, even directors Danny and Michael Phillipou were scared to watch it in a theater. Of course, their fear stems from an anxiety that only filmmakers who have spent years making a deeply personal project can truly understand. “We’re so nervous about showing it,” Michael Phillipou tells MovieMaker a week after a bi-coastal first-look screening. “We were mixing right up to the last day, then we finished it and went straight to do promotion.
Bring Her Back Directors on the Horror of Watching Their New A24 Release with an Audience

1 week ago | moviemaker.com | Greg Gilman

A24’s new horror release Bring Her Back is so scary, even directors Danny and Michael Philippou were scared to watch it in a theater. Of course, their fear stems from an anxiety that only filmmakers who have spent years making a deeply personal project can truly understand. “We’re so nervous about showing it,” Michael Philippou tells MovieMaker a week after a bi-coastal first-look screening. “We were mixing right up to the last day, then we finished it and went straight to do promotion.
12 Classic Movies That Are Still a Pleasure to Watch

1 week ago | moviemaker.com | Tim Molloy

We’ve all watched classic movies that are indisputably great, but aren’t much fun. These classic movies easily stand the test of time. Alfred Hitchcock’s crackling thriller stars Cary Grant as T.R. Devlin, a U.S. agent with a very cool name who recruits the notorious Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman, magnetic) to do his dirty work. Then people start falling in love and things get spectacularly messy.
In Benjamin Wong's Ba, a Father Becomes Death to Provide for His Daughter

1 week ago | moviemaker.com | Tim Molloy

Like many filmmakers on the verge of becoming parents, Ba director Benjamin Wong worried that having a child might hurt his creativity: Would he have time to labor over screenplays while caring for a small new person? “There’s this pressure in that season in your life, before you have children, to make your career — make things happen,” he says.
13 Silence of the Lambs Details Most People Missed

1 week ago | moviemaker.com | Tim Molloy

Here are some details about Silence of the Lambs you probably missed, unless you’re a diehard fan or a bit of a psychopath. If you haven’t seen the 1991 masterpiece, please do. The film, by director Jonathan Demme, follows young FBI trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) as she is dispatched to charm imprisoned serial killer Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) to seek insights into a string of killings by Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine).
The 12 Most Convenient Ventilation Shafts in Movies

1 week ago | moviemaker.com | Tim Molloy

Ventilator shafts turn up an awfully lot in Hollywood productions. Let’s vent about it with these 12 examples. Besides having the best title of any movie, IT! The Terror From Beyond Space appears to be the first film to introduce the idea of the very convenient air shaft. When the first manned expedition to Mars is invaded by an unknown entity, one brave member of the team volunteers to go poke around in the air shaft, or ventilation shaft, or ventilation duct, or whatever you want to call it.
The Wes Anderson System: The Phoenician Scheme Director and His Team on Time and Money

1 week ago | moviemaker.com | Joshua Encinias

“When you’ve made a lot of movies, you develop your own systems for how to go about them,” says Wes Anderson. He’s in Paris, where he lives much of the time, far from Hollywood, giving one of the first interviews about his 13th feature film, The Phoenician Scheme. “Movies are complicated,” he explains. “Sometimes you’re trying to do something difficult very fast, and when you have a group that works together, they find their own way to navigate these missions.
Maybe Bad Acting Is the Problem With Your Movie?

1 week ago | moviemaker.com | Tim Molloy

As the editor of MovieMaker, I’m asked to watch a lot of low-budget, DIY, independent movies, and hear a lot of complaints from indie filmmakers about why their films don’t get press coverage, or into film festivals, or into theaters: The industry doesn’t value creativity, the distribution model is broken, corporations are bad. Maybe all these things are true. But the most common thing I notice in movies that can’t seem to catch a break is just… bad acting. That’s all.
7 Oscar Best Picture Winner Movies That Would Never Be Made Today

1 week ago | moviemaker.com | Tim Molloy

Here are seven Oscar Best Picture winner movies that would never be made today. And if you think Hollywood will respond to Donald Trump’s re-election by being less sensitive, you probably didn’t live through the last Trump Administration. We aren’t here to gripe about “cancel culture” or “wokeism,” or to hold the past accountable to the standards of the present.
12 Great Young Actors Who Made It Without Family Connections

1 week ago | moviemaker.com | Tim Molloy

Here are 12 young actors who made it without family connections — just hard work and tons of talent. Raised in Australia by a single mom, with three siblings, Barbie star Margot Robbie had some very normal jobs before becoming one of Hollywood’s biggest young actors who made it without family connections — she cleaned houses, and worked at a surf shop and at the Subway sandwich chain, as she told MovieMaker in a 2020 interview.