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Dekanalog @dekanalog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
AMOEBA director Siyou Tan has been named one of @filmmakermagazine.com's 25 New Faces of Film 2026! "Tan has an assured, intuitive sense of how to calibrate teenage mischief, angst, and sincerity." AMOEBA opens in 2027 from Dekanalog.
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Siyou Tan
The director of coming-of-age films who makes teenage emotions leap off the screen.
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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 29/09/2026
“Mocap allowed production to begin without knowing what the movie would look like.” James N. Kienitz Wilkins writes about making his latest film, The Misconceived, with motion capture: ”a tool to characterize the fragmented digital society in which we live.” filmmaker.substack.com/p/a-farewell...
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A Farewell to Flesh
Man without a movie camera: one filmmaker’s adventures in motion capture.
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Caroline von Golum @carolineavenue.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This year's 25 New Faces interviews are up at the @filmmakermagazine.com Substack and as always I continue my tireless mission to secure North Hollywood's rightful place in film history filmmaker.substack.com/p/caroline-g...
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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 22/09/2026
"You're continually incentivizing people to work on the wrong projects ... and you can obviously see the knock-on effects in what's actually getting made." — Daniel Goldhaber Max Cea reports on the writer-director industrial complex: filmmaker.substack.com/p/the-myth-o...
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The Myth of the Multi-Hyphenate
The industry has transformed to favor filmmakers who write their own scripts, making artists with ambitious original ideas feel like they have to do it all.
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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 16/09/2026
"[THE BATTLE OF CHILE] contains the passion and poetry of telling with real interest what the people were living." To honor the passing of the great Chilean director Patricio Guzmán, we are revisiting Anthony Kaufman's 2020 interview with him: filmmaker.substack.com/p/the-indefa...
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The Indefatigable Patricio Guzmán
The late Chilean documentarian reflects on his move from vérité epics to lyrical essay films.
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Louise Weard @weard.moe · 11/09/2026
thank you so much to @filmmakermagazine.com <3 Proud to be alongside my fellow Canucks @avalonfast.bsky.social and @sophyromvari.bsky.social
25 New Faces of Film 2026
a series of caricature by David Cardoza and Dan Welch
feature the 25 filmmakers:
Kevin Walker & Jack Auen
Avalon Fast
Yanis Gaye
Caroline Golum
Phoebe Jane Hart
kekahi wahi
Adam & Zack Khalil
Sarah Lasley
Michelle J. Li
Alena Lodkina
Saffron Maeve
Danny Scharar & Harris Mayersohn
Blair McClendon
Lindsey Normington
Juanita Onzaga
Xenia Patricia
Hansel Porras Garcia
Inney Prakash
Sophy Romvari
Siyou Tan
Mars Verrone
Connor Sen Warnick
Louise Weard
Aidan Zamiri
Charlotte Zhang
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Caroline von Golum @carolineavenue.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
ICYMI: this old head is honored to be among this year's 25 New Faces of Film in @filmmakermagazine.com! A thousand thank-yous to @44getting.bsky.social and @celizotte.bsky.social for pole-vaulting me into the pantheon and David Cardoza + Dan Welch of Cashiers du Cinema or capturing my likeness!
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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 03/09/2026
Pleased to reveal @neon-rated.bsky.social's trailer for David Greaves’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM, which revisits footage shot in 1972 by his father, William Greaves, at a gathering of Harlem Renaissance luminaries. Find Greaves in conversation with Garrett Bradley in our fall issue, out soon!
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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 29/08/2026
Dolly Parton and Tim Curry were "extremely intentional about their presence in the culture, wanting to leave a meaningful mark rather than simply take up space." In our weekly editor's letter, @celizotte.bsky.social pens a remembrance of both performers: filmmaker.substack.com/p/dolly-part...
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Dolly Parton and Tim Curry Lived Their Truths
Both knew you couldn’t get anywhere without something to say.
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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 28/08/2026
"Beverly understood how to communicate with filmmakers emotionally. That changed the entire culture." — Bradford Young Kya Lou moderates a roundtable with film chemist Beverly Wood and cinematographer Bradford Young on the alchemy of color correction: filmmaker.substack.com/p/beverly-wo...
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Beverly Woods and Bradford Young on Revolutionizing Film Chemistry
Color correction shapes the emotional cadence and climate in which an image lives.
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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 26/08/2026
Take a deep dive into the world of Niu Lai, a bolt from the blue, outsider art blockbuster. @celizotte.bsky.social writes in our weekly editor's letter: filmmaker.substack.com/p/niu-lai-is...
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“Niu Lai” Is an Outsider Art Blockbuster
The bracingly surreal animated film about a newborn cow has become a phenomenon in China.
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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 25/08/2026
An essay about Ari Aster would come back to haunt Sophie Lewis in ways she couldn't have predicted. @kimkelly.bsky.social interviews Lewis about the movie review that was unexpectedly introduced as evidence in the Prairieland ICE Detention Facility case: filmmaker.substack.com/p/how-a-film...
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How a Film Review Ended Up at the Center of a Domestic Terrorism Case
A conversation with feminist scholar Sophie Lewis about the Ari Aster essay that she didn’t expect to be taken out of context.
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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
David Lynch @latimes.com, Fatih Akin @nybooks.com, Samy Burch @filmmakermagazine.com, Francis Ford Coppola @ Metrograph, Adam Curtis @thequietus.com … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
Laura Elena Harring walks down a palm-lined street in David Lynch’s MULHOLLAND DR. (2001).
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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 11/08/2026
"I saw the area as a stage for their ever-shifting relationship. [...] At times, it can seem like heaven; at other times, like hell." — Kiyoshi Kurosawa on THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER. Jawni Han ( @kimchimarx.bsky.social ) speaks with the J-horror auteur: filmmaker.substack.com/p/dungeon-ma...
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Dungeon Master: Kiyoshi Kurosawa on “The Samurai and the Prisoner”
Blending “Throne of Blood” with “The Silence of the Lambs,” the J-horror director stages a murder mystery inside a besieged 16th-century castle.
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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 10/08/2026
"It's important to me that these works are earnest—not sentimental, but not coming from a place of cynicism." —Jane Schoenbrun. From our summer issue, Grace Byron interviews the director of TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA: filmmaker.substack.com/p/jane-schoe...
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Jonah Jeng @jonahjeng.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
For those who missed it, I examined the work of indie action pioneer @ericjacobus.bsky.social for @filmmakermagazine.com.
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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
wrote this week’s @filmmakermagazine.com newsletter on Tony, which gave me fresh eyes on Matt Johnson’s earlier work…but it’s a packed weekend for movies, so sign up to be the first to read our summer issue coverage of Camp Miasma and Late Fame next week! filmmaker.substack.com/p/working-cl...
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Working-Class Zero
Matt Johnson’s “Tony” is less an Anthony Bourdain biopic than a story of masculine role models.
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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 07/08/2026
"TONY fits neatly alongside [Matt] Johnson’s other movies, in which characters make decisions informed by the allure of masculine cultural archetypes—and the thin, often self-deluding line between alpha males and beta males." @celizotte.bsky.social writes: filmmaker.substack.com/p/working-cl...
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Working-Class Zero
Matt Johnson’s “Tony” is less an Anthony Bourdain biopic than a story of masculine role models.
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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 07/08/2026
"Twenty years ago, a movie filmed for a couple thousand bucks in the Bay Area delivered action sequences that left most Hollywood offerings in the dust." Read @jonahjeng.bsky.social 's appreciation of CONTOUR, Eric Jacobus's DIY action masterpiece: filmmaker.substack.com/p/applied-ph...
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Applied Physics: The DIY Action Films of Eric Jacobus
The small-town Californian who emulated Hong Kong throwdowns for peanuts.
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Jonah Jeng @jonahjeng.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Excited to share my debut for @filmmakermagazine.com, focusing on CONTOUR and the indie action films of Eric Jacobus. filmmaker.substack.com/p/applied-ph...
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Applied Physics: The DIY Action Films of Eric Jacobus
The small-town Californian who emulated Hong Kong throwdowns for peanuts.
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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 05/08/2026
"We did what we wanted to do, not what we should have done." Out from behind the paywall: B. Ruby Rich ( @brubyrich.bsky.social ) speaks to Yashaddai Owens about JIMMY, now playing @ifccenter.bsky.social and elsewhere. filmmaker.substack.com/p/the-art-of...
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The Art of Arrival: Yashaddai Owens on “Jimmy”
B. Ruby Rich speaks with the director about his speculative portrait of James Baldwin.
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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 02/08/2026
"This was my way of saying 'fuck it.'" Steve Macfarlane interviews Ngozi Onwurah about WELCOME II THE TERRORDOME, the first British film by a Black woman, back in theaters after 30 years: filmmaker.substack.com/p/in-the-hou...
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In the Hour of Chaos: Ngozi Onwurah on “Welcome II the Terrordome”
The first British feature directed by a Black woman is back in theaters after 30 years.
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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 31/07/2026
"Persona is a very deliberate instrument for Charli, who is curious about the conditions that might destabilize it." Chloe Lizotte ( @celizotte.bsky.social ) on expectation and dissonance in Gregg Araki's I WANT YOUR SEX and Charli XCX's MUSIC, FASHION, FILM: filmmaker.substack.com/p/faceoff-gr...
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Face/Off: Gregg Araki and Charli XCX
An underground filmmaker and an international pop star play against type.
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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 31/07/2026
"With Jennifer Lame in the editing room, Christopher Nolan has transformed the abstract into the impressionistic." Corey Atad ( @coreyatad.com ) on what Jennifer Lame's editing brings to Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY: filmmaker.substack.com/p/weaving-th...
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Weaving “The Odyssey”
Editor Jennifer Lame’s third collaboration with Christopher Nolan is an epic of emotional immediacy.
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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 30/07/2026
"I don't mind that people can see fingerprints on the clay or hot glue every now and then." In the latest excerpt from our summer issue, Kambole Campbell ( @kambole.bsky.social ) speaks with Emily Ann Hoffman about her delightfully bizarre animations. filmmaker.substack.com/p/disarming-...
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Disarming the Audience
Emily Ann Hoffman on the power of “human-crafted” animation.
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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 30/07/2026
"The festival has walked an improbable path of occupation, compromise, and survival." Sonya Vseliubska shares standouts from the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, including BLACK MONEY FOR WHITE NIGHTS & Swann Arlaud in A MAN OF HIS TIME: filmmaker.substack.com/p/spa-eclect...
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Spa Eclectics: At Karlovy Vary
The festival’s 60th edition and 80th anniversary acknowledges its inheritance on its own terms.
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 28/07/2026
"A film effectively unstuck in time, in which all events occur simultaneously, gaining shape in a storytelling style akin to recollected memory." for @filmmakermagazine.com, i wrote about Christopher Nolan's editing style and his collaboration with editor Jennifer Lame
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Weaving “The Odyssey”
Editor Jennifer Lame’s third collaboration with Christopher Nolan is an epic of emotional immediacy.
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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 24/07/2026
“The best intimate scenes go beyond sex. It’s like the characters—not the actors—stop performing.” Presenting the cover story from our summer issue: an intimacy coordinator roundtable, moderated by Yehuda Duenyas, the IC of Gregg Araki’s I WANT YOUR SEX. open.substack.com/pub/filmmake...
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Keep Sex Weird
An intimacy coordinator roundtable.
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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 23/07/2026
"By refusing to condescend to his lurid B-movie material, [Sam] Neill inhabits it like a church." Adam Nayman (@brofromanother.bsky.social) writes a remembrance of Neill, who threw himself headfirst into blockbusters and B movies alike. filmmaker.substack.com/p/rememberin...
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Remembering Sam Neill
One of the proverbial good guys, Neill threw himself headfirst into blockbusters and B movies alike.
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Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 18/07/2026
A very good mail day today!! My profile of THE FURIOUS’ Kenji Tanigaki in Filmmaker Mag (a debut for me) arrived. As did my contributor’s copy of I’M GONNA GIT YOU SUCKA (I wrote an essay for it).
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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 18/07/2026
"Like Odysseus, people had traveled far—from Boston, from Arizona, from Toronto." Chloe Lizotte ( @celizotte.bsky.social ) files a scene report from the opening night of Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY and tries to get to the bottom of a monocultural moment: filmmaker.substack.com/p/a-long-way...
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A Long Way to See “The Odyssey”
On the scene at Christopher Nolan’s epic opening night.
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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Jeffrey Wright @ebertvoices.bsky.social, John Woo @ BFI, Archivistas Salvajes @ Ultra Dogme, Babylon’13 @documentary.org, La Clef @filmmakermagazine.com, Ultraman @japantimes.co.jp, AI “sloppycats” @avclub.com … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
In Julian Schnabel’s BASQUIAT (1996), Jean-Michel Basquiat (Jeffrey Wright), Andy Warhol (David Bowie), Albert Milo (Gary Oldman), and Bruno Bischofberger (Dennis Hopper) line up for photos.
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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 15/07/2026
“Political commitment is woven into the fabric of the cinema itself.” Botagoz Koilybaeva profiles the La Clef Revival collective, who occupied an arthouse theater in Paris to unlock a new future for cinema. From our summer issue. 📸: Chiara Marinai. open.substack.com/pub/filmmake...
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La Clef Revival Occupies the Cinema
The Parisian cinema collective unlocks a new future for film culture and city life.
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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 15/07/2026
“You can feel the earthiness of the East Village and the rubble, the empty lots, the abandoned buildings.” —Phil Hartman on NO PICNIC on the heels of its historic run at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social . Read David Schwartz on the film’s second life: open.substack.com/pub/filmmake...
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“No Picnic” Feasts at Film Forum
Phil Hartman’s forgotten ode to Manhattan’s Lower East Side gets a second life.
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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 14/07/2026
"Diving into the archive meant confronting a history that isn't taught and that we don't really have access to." Lauren Wissot interviews Lana Daher about her film Do You Love Me, which excavates Lebanon's past through home movies and the rhythms of emotion: filmmaker.substack.com/p/do-you-lov...
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“Do You Love Me” Reassembles Lebanon’s Cultural Memory
Director Lana Daher on excavating Lebanon’s past through archival cinema, home movies, and the rhythms of emotion.
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
talked with Georgia Bernstein about her wonderfully weird, watery debut NIGHT NURSE filmmaker.substack.com/p/take-care-...
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Take Care: Georgia Bernstein on “Night Nurse”
The director talks about her psychosexual first feature.
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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 14/07/2026
"There is something irresistible about Valerie's futile but sincere effort to prevail." From our summer issue, Rafaela Bassili reflects on the transforming entertainment industry depicted in Lisa Kudrow's THE COMEBACK: filmmaker.substack.com/p/lost-in-th...
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Lost in the Funhouse
As the television industry reinvents itself, so does Lisa Kudrow’s protagonist in “The Comeback.”
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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 10/07/2026
We’re thrilled to unveil the summer 2026 issue of Filmmaker! Featuring an intimacy coordinator roundtable, Jane Schoenbrun, John Early, Julio Torres, and much more ☀️ Trailer by Charlotte Gosch / Studio Other Types
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