CONTENTS
TOP: PHOTOGRAPH BY ANDREW COOPER / COURTESY OF SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT; ABOVE: PHOTOGRAPH BY FABRICE DALL’ANESE
ON THE
COVER
6 SUMMER 2019 MOVIEMAKER.COM
FEATURES
- Hollywood Ending
Writer-director Quentin Tarantino’s
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
is a love letter to moviemaking, to
Los Angeles, and to a career he’ll be happy
to call a wrap on if his next film is his last
By Max Weinstein
- 25 Coolest Fests in the World, 2019
Showing up fashionably late to these taste-
making, trend-setting fests is OK, but miss-
ing out on them is not
By Ryan Stewart and MM Editors
- ’69 at 50
On their 50th anniversaries, we look at how
nine of 1969’s most revolutionary films forever
changed moviemaking and moviegoing
By Peter Weed
- Cold Piece of Work
Richard Linklater avoided producer duties
for the first time in a long time, but still
had to weather Greenland hurricanes mak-
ing Where’d You Go, Bernadette
By Emma Myers
- Best Film Schools in
the U.S. and Canada, 2019
Where to invest in your film education?
Our annual list of 40 first-in-class programs
will help you do your homework
By N.L. Brooks
COLUMNS & DEPTS.
- MM Notebook
By Tim Rhys
- Contributors
- Letters
- Book Reviews
By Sophie Jonsson, Sara Romano,
and Izzy Stroobandt - Indie Law
Our entertainment law expert
pulls your legal questions from
the MM mailbag
By David Albert Pierce, Esq.
- The Innovators
Another year, more gear: Our on-the-
ground industry expert highlights the best
of his tech tests at Cine Gear 2019
By Jon C. Scheide - How They Did It
Shock maestro Ari Aster built a 30-foot
green screen ramp atop a cliff in Hungary
to elevate the horror of Midsommar
By Ari Aster - What’s In Your Kit?
The Art of Self Defense DP Michael Ragen
masters the art of production practicality
with his custom-fit lensing kit
By Michael Ragen
28. How They Did It
The Farewell writer-director Lulu Wang
provides a personal guide to turning
your life story into a memoir movie
By Lulu Wang
32. Eye Piece
DP Jasper Wolf went mano a mano
with an untamed Colombian wilderness
to shoot Monos’ wildly surreal visuals
By Jasper Wolf
50. Festival Beat
Life’s a beach for the shoreside stars
of our 2019 Cannes Film Festival gallery
By Fabrice Dall’Anese
74. Festival Beat
Rare nitrate prints in Hollywood,
networking on Cannes’ Croisette,
and more standout fests from the
spring circuit
79. Advertiser Index /
Call for Entries / Marketplace
80. Things I’ve Learned
as a Moviemaker
By Richard Dreyfuss
QUENTIN TARANTINO,
PHOTOGRAPHED
BY ANDREW COOPER,
ON THE LOS ANGELES
SET OF ONCE UPON A
TIME... IN HOLLYWOOD
AS AGING ACTOR RICK DALTON, LEONARDO DICAPRIO BRINGS OUT THE BIG GUNS FOR QUENTIN TARANTINO’S
ONCE UPON A TIME... IN HOLLYWOOD. READ ABOUT THE FILM ON PAGE 58
CHLOË SEVIGNY CAME TO THE 2019 CANNES FILM
FESTIVAL AS ONE OF MANY STARS IN JIM JARMUSCH’S
THE DEAD DON’T DIE. READ ABOUT THE FEST ON
PAGES 50 AND 74