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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
You have to choose your battles, so to speak, when doing lower budget films.
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The Importance of Intention
A Conversation With Heist Editor Barbara Tulliver
There's something to be said for being in the right place at the right time. Barbara Tulliver made her move to the cutting room quite by chance, starting in commercials and eventually assisting directors David Mamet and Milos Forman in the late '80s. When Mamet's regular editor was unavailable to work on Homicide, he offered Tulliver the job. Since then, she's edited a steady stream of films for the prolific director, including last year's State and Main and this year's Heist.
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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
Watch as many old movies as possible.
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Getting Personal
An Interview with Writer/Director Allison Anders
For writer/director Allison Anders, life has not always been "like the movies." From a tumultuous upbringing to the demands of motherhood while pursuing her career, Anders has worked tirelessly to make a name for herself in the film industry. Today, she remains one of America's most prolific and recognized female moviemakers, a reputation she's gained by giving the audience a piece of herself with each film.
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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
If you want to learn what kind of a filmmaker you are then trust your artistic instincts first, commercial instincts second and parents' instincts last. If you want to make a lot of money, reverse these.
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The Director who Defies Audience Expectations
An Interview with Brad Anderson
Leave it to writer/director Brad Anderson to defy audience expectations. Though he's often been pigeonholed as 'the romantic-comedy guy' following the success of his first two features, The Darien Gap (1995) and his breakthrough hit, Next Stop Wonderland (1998), he's changing that rep with his latest two films. First up is the psychological thriller Session 9, followed closely by the romance with a sci-fi twist, Happy Accidents. Here, Anderson talks with MM about his conscious decision to cross genres and why he's looking forward to making a studio film.
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Indie Movie Guide
Reviews of some of the independent film world's newest independent films
In this month's edition, check out reviews of: Definitely Not Hollywood, The Heck with Hollywood, Chick Movie, Sally and Angela, Homedaddy and Fusion One.
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Talent and Toughness: Are Great Directors Born or Made?
Working director Guy Magar takes two decades of experience on the road with his take-no-prisoners weekend film school.
Director Guy Magar just completed the suspense thriller Children of the Corn: Revelation, based on Stephen King's original story for the Miramax/Dimension label, slated for release October 14th, 2001. His film directing credits include Showdown, starring Matt LeBlanc of TV's "Friends," Stepfather 3 (HBO World Premiere), and the cult thriller Retribution.
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The Peak Experiences of Pip Karmel
He will talk me through the rushes when we're having screenings at the end of the day but it's either pretty self explanatory; when you look at the material you can see what he's intending.
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The Peak Experiences of Pip Karmel
Editor/director shines in her latest, Hearts in Atlantis
Though she went to film school to become a director in her own right (which she has accomplished with Me, Myself, I), it was while still in school that Pip Karmel began her collaboration with director Scott Hicks. Since then, she's returned to the editing chair twice -- both times for Hicks -- first to cut Shine, and now for his latest film, Hearts In Atlantis.
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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
Keep the actors relaxed, and keep them in the moment so that they can listen to each other and focus, so that they're genuinely affected and not just waiting to say their lines.
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Terry Zwigoff’s Ghost World
Despite studio fame and fortune, the Crumb documentarian is still righteously angry after all these years
Director Terry Zwigoff's 1994 film Crumb garnered a degree of critical acclaim and audience support that typically proves elusive for other documentary moviemakers. Yet Zwigoff-about as anti-Hollywood a figure as one could envision-waited seven years to follow up that success with another feature (a timeframe elongated by the director's involvement in an aborted Woody Allen documentary).
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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
I like to direct each scene knowing it's part of a much bigger fabric.
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Prolific Aussie Helmer Beresford takes on Bride of The Wind
Film chronicles story of woman with a most extraordinary range of love affairs of any woman in history
After 30 years of moviemaking and almost as many features to his credit, Australian director Bruce Beresford is far from a household name in the US. With a handful of classics under his belt-Breaker Morant, Tender Mercies, Crimes of the Heart, Driving Miss Daisy, Black Robe-he typifies the seasoned journeyman for whom good work is its own reward.
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Indie Movie Guide
Reviews of some of the independent film world's newest independent films
In this month's edition, check out reviews of: Definitely Not Hollywood, The Heck with Hollywood, Chick Movie, Sally and Angela, Homedaddy and Fusion One.
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Triangles and Tribulations
How Two Moviemakers Helped to Revolutionize the Online Distribution Game
Since 1991, Anthony Soohoo has been at the forefront of the Internet revolution, working with such giants as Apple, Yahoo!, NEC and Inktomi. In his current position as COO of ALWAYSi, a leading online film exhibition and distribution site, he continues to keep one step ahead of Internet trends.
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An American in Tokyo
A Conversation with American Short Shorts' Doug Williams
For more than a decade, Douglas Williams has been working to bring together American and Japanese cultures. As president and co-founder of the American Short Shorts Film Festival, he's found a way to ingrain the American short film format into Japanese culture.
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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
You have the courage of your convictions. When you're editing you have to make thousands of decisions every day and if you dither over them all the time, you'll never get anything done.
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Master of the Hidden Cut
A Conversation with Editor Anne Coates
During her more than 50 years in the craft, editor Anne Coates has been a collaborator and ally to many of the world's finest directors including Sidney Lumet, David Lynch, Milos Forman and Steven Soderbergh. Currently on the set of Adrian Lyne's Unfaithful, she talks with MM about her fairytale beginnings with The Red Shoes.
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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
I think it's really important to always keep in mind that you are an outsider and if you're trying to make something that's realistic, you need to do a certain amount of work to make sure that it's alright.
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Coming of Age
A Conversation with Indie Auteur Jim McKay
With the release of 1996's Girls Town, writer/director Jim McKay showed that teen films can be political. Though he's returning to familiar territory with Our Song, he proves that similar subject matter can yield a completely original and compelling story.
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Life Lessons
An Interview with John Singleton
With his new picture, Baby Boy, writer-director John Singleton returns to his own backyard in South Central Los Angeles for an uncompromising look at the life of a young man in a state of arrested development.
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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
Story is my guideline. I know the improv has to hit certain points. There will be a few things in a scene that [the actors' have got to hit in order for my entire story to work into a two-hour movie.
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Catching Lightning In a Bottle
A Conversation with Frank Oz
Frank Oz's success as a director comes from a passion for building believable characters, a quality that is evidenced in his latest film, the star-studded heist flick, The Score.
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Filling A Void
HDFEST's Issac Alexander Speaks About the Future of Moviemaking
Perhaps even before George Lucas informed the movie industry that there is life after film, Issac Alexander and Marisa Cohen were in the planning stages of HDFESTãthe world's first festival dedicated solely to the exhibition of high definition products.
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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
Sometimes you can see better and tell a story better if you are outside a little bit.
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Lucky Breaks
Q & A with Cinematographer Jim Denault
Since lensing his first feature, Michael Almereyda¼s Another Girl, Another Planet, in 1992, cinematographer Jim Denault has become the DP of choice for some of the independent film world's most recognized talents. Now, he's teamed up with director Jim McKay (Girls Town) to help create the realistically gritty world of three young women growing up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in Our Song.
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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
I like to put myself in the position of the audience, because they don't know any of that stuff anyway.
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Q & A with Planet of the Apes Editor Chris Lebenzon
For the past two decades, Lebenzon has been averaging about one feature per year, working alongside such directors as Tim Burton, Michael Bay and Tony Scott.
For the past two decades, editor Chris Lebenzon has been averaging about one feature per year, working alongside such directors as Tim Burton, Michael Bay and Tony Scott with such films as Ed Wood, Crimson Tide and Pearl Harbor to his credit. This summer, Lebenzon's most recent work can be seen in Planet of the Apes.
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Rewriting Literature
A Conversation With Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Over the course of a career that began some 40 years ago, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has penned over 20 screenplays-almost exclusively for director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant. In Q & A with MM, Jhabvala discusses her lates film, The Golden Bowl, her longtime collaboration with the Merchant/Ivory team and the difficulties in adapting literature to the big screen.
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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
They don't want freedom. They sometimes complain and say 'You are telling me exactly what I have to do!' but they love it. They love it when the part is laid out for them, and they don't have to make those kinds of decisions. You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor.
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Mythology and Moviemaking
A Conversation with John Boorman
Like the tropical nightmares of Joseph Conrad, the films of John Boorman lead us down rivers-real and imagined-into the heart of what ails us, and the quest for a remedy. Boorman's latest picture, The Tailor of Panama, adapted from the novel by John Le Carre, takes us back to the wasteland-this one of the tropical, urban variety.
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Inventor of the Online Film Festival
A Conversation with ClickFlick's Michael Perry
There aren't too many peaks in the motion picture world that Michael Perry hasn't scaled. After attending film school, Perry began directing television commercials. From there, he launched a lengthy and successful career as a music producer. And in 2000, he stuck a flag atop the Internet with his company, ClickFlick.
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The Franchising of a Film Festival
An Interview with FirstGlance Founder Bill Ostroff
FirstGlance Film Festival founder Bill Ostroff is quite adept at juggling many responsibilities. When not working as a full-time moviemaker, writer or production coordinator, he finds the time to run the world's first and only bi-coastal film festival, FirstGlance.
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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
Encourage the actors after every take. Acting is like jumping without a parachute-it's a scary thing to do. My acting coach made me try it once, so I know.
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