Toolkit Podcast Ep. 60: With “Fallout,” McQuarrie takes an enormous step as a director by unlocking how to inject his action sequences with the same emotional clarity he brings to his writing.
Waithe shares a funny story about testing for “Master of None” and her advice to actors auditioning when “the safe choices aren’t happening anymore.”
“Barry” co-creators Bill Hader and Alec Berg talk to IndieWire about building a dark, violent show that played off the audience’s expectation of Hader as a lovable comedian.
Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers look back at how their show evolved into its remarkable final season.
Filmmaker Toolkit Podcast: Simien talks about his need to create classical cinema frames for black faces, how Kubrick changed film music and his upcoming horror race-satire “Bad Hair.”
The showrunner behind the plot-twisty network sitcom talks about the power of memory and avoiding the M. Night Shyamalan trap.
Toolkit Podcast: David Kajganich breaks down the process of creating the historical horror story and why, after originally pitching the show as 5-season anthology, he’ll be handing over the reins.
Tookit Podcast: One of the year’s best episodes of TV was also one of the riskiest. Director Hiro Murai breaks down how he and Glover kept “Teddy Perkins” from becoming a bad SNL sketch.
In the latest episode of IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast, Schrader breaks down the narrative devices he uses to destabilize his audience.
Zhao said with her Bass Reeves biopic, she’ll direct a more traditional cast like she did with her first-timers: “You can work with an actor in a certain way, you can create an environment like Terrence Malick has always done.”
From “Punch-Drunk Love” to Audrey Hepburn to the Coen Brothers, del Toro doesn’t hide the countless films and directors who inspired his greatest work.
How the legendary director of “Hoop Dreams,” “The Interrupters” and this year’s Oscar-nominated “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail” gets ordinary people to be themselves on screen.
