What is it to make a movie? Often, we think of singular auteurs almost effortlessly spinning visions of astounding beauty from nothing but their imagination for us to reverentially take in while ...

Zia Anger’s movie about her first movie is full of nested layers, but mostly it’s a meditation on how, and why, we create. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A strip of film from George Méliès' 1897 short "Gugusse and the Automaton," which is thought to be the first film to feature what ...

Best of 2024: The best feature directorial debuts of the year included new names, new ideas, and at least one film cheekily titled "My First Film." Alas, we do love rubric around these parts (you try ...

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Some filmmakers have remade their own films, others have made adapted works they created in other media, many have made films about filmmaking, and many more have dramatized their private lives. Leave ...