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Los Angeles Independent Film Festival
Sundance spillover finds indie oasis in Tinseltown
Sundance spillover finds indie oasis in Tinseltown.
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Raising Cain with Abel Ferrara
The director of Bad Lieutenant has developed a cult following by exploring the deepest, darkest corners of humanity.
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The Vision Alan Rudolph
At long last, the direg last, the director of Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle decides to deal with reality.
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Reviews: Ed Wood Have Been Proud
Tim Burton, who gave the horror genre a “Leave it to Beaver” twist with Frankenweenie, made Paul Reubens a role model in Pee Wee’s Big Adventure and added a hint of menace to Batman, has moved beyond TV-land inspirations to make a movie about a moviemaker. With Ed Wood, Burton has created a weirdly loving portrait of a man often mentioned as the worst director of all time.
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Confessions of the Adrenaline Junkies
Stuntmen and women are the unsung heroes of the motion picture industry. Why do they do it?
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Sound Acting Advice
Establishing and training your voice can mean a potentially lucrative supplement to your acting income.
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Tough Gal Faye Dunaway Keeps Going with Arizona Dream
Despite her status as a film legend, American studios still seems reluctant to release Dunaway's finely crafted and low-profile "art" films.
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Carty Talkington Hits the Mark with Love and a .45
In Love and a .45, writer-director Carty Talkington has created a stylized, darkly comedic journey through the contemporary American landscape of murder, media, music, controlled substances and unbridled love. Fast-paced and infused with a refreshingly twisted take on pop culture, the film lures the viewer in with its peculiar charm before springing a plot and tone shift that at once stuns and captivates. Filled with unexpected strong performances and a rollicking musicality that often runs counterpoint to the dramatic mood, the film hardly plays like a directorial debut.
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Tom Noonan Tries to Figure Out What Happened
Financed with his own money, actor and first-time director Tom Noonan's What Happened Was... has become another 1994 indie success story.
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Fresh Director Boaz Yakin Proves You Can Make it Sans the Hype
Fresh is a knockout of a first film. Well-crafted and poetically paced, it is a movie so simple and straightforward in storyline that it feels like a completely “fresh” approach to moviemaking. So how did director Boaz Yakin do it? Where did it all begin?
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In My Japanese Cousin, The Talent’s in the Music
Maria Garguilo finds the Seattle scene a source of fledgling actors and cheap labor for her first feature, The Year of My Japanese Cousin.
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MM Notebook
At the risk of sounding irritatingly cheerleaderesque, this month I had a notion to devote my few hundred words of spout-off space to the public’s receptiveness to independent moviemaking in this country. There is just no question that independent moviemaking in America is entering a Golden Age of sorts, and that the public, the general moviegoing and TV-watching audiences, are responsible for it. Maybe it’s because more viewers today are moviemakers themselves.
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Lessons From Orson
One of Orson Welle's closest friends in his later years, Henry Jaglom shares advice from his mentor. Plus, a review of a "new" Welles film.
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What Do Distributors Want From Us, Anyway?
How To Avoid Distribution Hell
The second installment on our continuing series on "How to Avoid Distribution Hell." This time we talk to four microdistributors.
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Clerks Proves Ignorance is Bliss
With no budget and a toy slate, Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier show all you really need are guts.
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Bulletproof on Broadway
There were those who thought his career was over, but with Bullets Over Broadway Woody Allen survived and proved again that even at his worst, he's one of the best.
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Wild Hill
Walter Hill Rides The Western Wave.
Like Peckinpah before him, Walter Hill has been accused of making movies that revel in violence. He answers that charge and talks about his new film, Wild Bill.
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Is Film School Worth It?
How Valuable is Film School?
Didn't two or three really great movies get made before anyone ever heard of film school? Is formal education really the answer for aspiring moviemakers? Several successful motion picture directors give us their opinions.
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Lina Wertmüller, Lost and Found
Not Missing, Just Misinterpreted
Although Ciao, Professore! is an upbeat departure from her previous work, that doesn't mean the brilliant Italian director is any easier to understand.
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The Motion Picture Association of America: Natural Born Censors?
Like it or not, the MPAA ratings code discourages artistic freedom, but the worst part is that the system may not even be fair to independents without much clout.
When Clerks got slapped with the dreaded NC- 17, Jeff decided to recap the MPAA's reasoning behind a ratings system he believes is seriously out of order.
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Bloody Sam’s Misogynistic Vision
Seduced by booze and drugs and fascinated by prostitutes, Sam Peckinpah took whatever he needed to satisfy his creative urges.
Did Sam Peckinpah hate women? While the director's cinematic voice was lone and eloquent in his idealized depiction of the traditional American male, his females definitely got no respect.
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“Heads Up” Video Monitoring Is Here
Don't throw away the SteadiCam, but this new system can improve your field monitoring.
Virtual Vision's "heads up" video monitor may soon be a practical alternative in the field.
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Stars in Your Eyes? Here’s Looking at You
Great directors will tell you that one of the secrets to becoming an effective movie actor is the ability to communicate through the eyes.
Take it from Frank Capra - using your eyes effectively is one of the keys to becoming a film star.
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Festival Beat
The Independent Feature Film Market in New York sets itself apart as a premier marketing opportunity for independent moviemakers by encompassing scripts, shorts, and works-in progress.
The Independent Feature Film Market in New York is where indies go to get noticed.
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MM Notebook
What a long, strange trip it's been - and we're not quite a year old yet.
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Rutger Hauer
The veteran Dutch actor talks about his latest role, in The Beans of Egypt, Maine and his plans to direct.
Rutger Hauer gets old.
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Alex Winter
From Bill and Ted star to indie director, Alex Winter proves marketing a .feature is no excellent adventure, even for insiders.
Alex Winter freaks out.
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How To Lose $1.2 Million And Shoot Your Feature Anyway
Seattle talent got a break when Tim Hines fired Crispin Glover and his entire Hollywood cast before production of House of the Rising.
Seattle moviemaker Tim Hines gives Crispin Glover the heave-ho, loses $1.2 million in financing and makes his feature anyway. All in one continuous take.
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Jonathan Blank
His "odyssey of Dutch democracy" story has let Jonathan Blank to do the improbable: make a commercially successful documentary.
Jonathan Blank does Amsterdam.
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Decline of the Western
In a shootout with the great westerns of the past, the current crop would be left bleeding in the dust.
Sure the Western's back, but do today's directors really understand what made "cowboy movies" one of the best loved genres in the world?
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Out of the Shadows
David Koepp proves he's Hollywood's hottest screenwriter by adding another blockbuster to his string of big-budget successes
Screenwriting has been very good to David Koepp, who's had five of his scripts made into major Hollywood movies in the last two years.
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Back on the Mainscreen
Short films are making a serious comeback, and that's good news for moviemakers looking for new markets
Moviemakers are starting to take the shorter format seriously, as markets start to open up for the first time in recent memory.
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First Lady of Horror
Janet Leigh talks about cutting, shooting, and working with "Hitch"
In a new book Janet Leigh remembers how she terrified the nation 34 summers ago in one of the greatest horror films of all time.
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Psycho Analysis
The hacks have dissected and picked it apart for almost 35 years, but Hitchcock's masterpiece is still a source of controversy.
Long before Friday the 13th, before Nightmare
on Elm Street, before Halloween, there was Psycho.
You don't need a Ph.D. to understand this film, and after
reading this article, you'll realize that wouldn't help anyway.
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Stillman’s Wit
Metropolitan's director returns and once again shows us that while talk is cheap, it can be interesting and effective.
Once again Whit Stillman proves that small, dialogue-driven films can still find an audience. Especially if they're witty.
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Greg Laemmle—relentless supporter of indie moviemakers—suggested I include moviemaker Tommy Wiseau in my self-distribution series. Turns out Wiseau's movie, The Room, made 10 years ago, has not only become a “cult” phenomenon, but a veritable lesson in paint-by-numbers, cult-by-design moviemaking. Wiseau was very entertaining and still, after all these years, passionate to tell the story of his movie and its conception.
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