Jim Hemphill
Jim Hemphill is an award-winning filmmaker and film historian who writes about filmmaking craft for IndieWire. His films have screened at the Sundance Film Festival, American Cinematheque, and other festivals and venues, and his writing on cinema has appeared in American Cinematographer, Film Comment, Variety, Filmmaker Magazine, and elsewhere. He is the author of the book “The Art and Craft of TV Directing: Interviews With Episodic Television Directors,” and he has contributed scholarly audio commentaries to dozens of Blu-rays released by the British Film Institute, Kino Lorber, and other labels.
Latest by Jim Hemphill
Tomorrow Belongs To Me
The composer explains why he had to create a five-hour symphonic backstory for his music, how historical research found its way into his score, and why "Nuremberg" changed his perspective on his work and his life.
Ryan Coogler and Paul Thomas Anderson's latest films deserve to be seen on the biggest screens possible, and this December, Warner Bros. is giving viewers another chance to experience them as their makers intended.
Filmmaker Toolkit
The co-writer and director of the touching new dramedy talks about finding a visual language for isolation and connection in a post-COVID world and how Brendan Fraser's character reflects her own life experience
Pass the Remote
Tony Gilroy, Diego Luna, Sanne Wohlenberg, Dan Gilroy, Genevieve O'Reilly, Adria Arjona, Brandon Roberts, and Dave Acord joined IndieWire for a Pass the Remote conversation.
Interview
The casting director behind "JFK," "Natural Born Killers," and "The Rock" talks about her powerful new documentary, which follows her husband's Alzheimer's battle, and why she's happy the Academy is finally recognizing what casting directors do.
Sound and Fury
Sound designer Michael Babcock tells IndieWire about using sound as a tool to convey character in James Vanderbilt's gripping historical drama.
Filmmaker Toolkit
The director of Paramount's new Stephen King adaptation talks with IndieWire about influences, scale, and the nerve-wracking process of showing King the script and finished film.
Rhythm Section
From noisy IMAX cameras to bad weather and foot-stomping dances, the "Sinners" sound team faced a lot of challenges when it came to fully realizing director Ryan Coogler's audacious sonic aspirations. They break down how they did it for IndieWire.
Craft Roundtables
The cinematographer behind some of Spike Lee's best '90s films opens up about his return to features with Luca Guadagnino's latest provocation.
Craft Roundtables
Director of photography Adolpho Veloso visits the IndieWire craft roundtables to talk about how he wanted to evoke a sense of memory and immediacy in his images.
Trailer
After decades of sporadic and limited screenings, the complete version of Tarantino's epic will finally be released nationwide on December 5 — complete with a new anime sequence.
Trailer
Writer/director Fastvold and co-screenwriter Brady Corbet follow "The Brutalist" with an even more audacious metaphor for the agony and ecstasy of artistic creation.
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