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Will the Writers Rescue Hollywood?
With new money and new respect, will the writers rescue Hollywood?
Many in the industry wonder if Sony's new deal with screenwriters signals a new trend that will give screenwriters some long-overdue respect and financial reward, or if it is just one more indication of studio desperation in an era of declining motion picture quality.
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Cashing in on Historical Screenplays
New writing paradigms for the 21st Century
This year the five films that were nominated for best picture are all historical dramas. Here are some tips for screenwriting in this ever-popular genre.
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Cyberscribes: The Power of Digital Screenwriting
The Power and Freedom of Digital Screenwriting
What new considerations are there for screenwriters who can now create stories with virtually no limits on their imaginations?
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Hail Preston Sturges
Celebrating the Genius of Writer-Director Preston Sturges
Over 100 years after his death and 50 years after one of the most amazing creative bursts in the history of the movies, audiences are discovering the genius of Preston Sturges again and for the first time.
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Hollywood’s Homeless Screenplays
Buried Treasures: Hollywood's Homeless Screenplays
Why do some of the best screenplays in Hollywood never get made?
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Quintessential Cool: A Conversation with James Coburn
A conversation with James Coburn
Brand-new Academy Award-winner James Coburn talks about acting, women, cigars, sobriety,Yul Brynner, Sam Peckinpah, the internet, etc. Oh, and the new movie that's revived his career, Affliction.
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Spec Sale Strategies
New Ways to Hook That Script Deal
Marketing your script doesn't just mean sending out a few query letters anymore. Here are new ways to give yourself an edge as you look for gold in the lucrative but extremely competitive world of spec screenplays.
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MM Notebook
New writing paradigms for the 21st Century
Letters
Paul Schrader
With Affliction, the enigmatic writer-director's cinema of loneliness finally connects with audiences
With Affliction, the enigmatic writer-director's cinema of loneliness finally connects with audiences.
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Paradise Falls
Director discovers that doing well at festivals is no guarantee
Director discovers that doing well at festivals is no guarantee.
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1999 Sundance, Slamdance and Rotterdam Film Festivals
Sundance, Stamdance, Rotterdam: Trends point to doc resurgence, but 1999 may be year that escapes definition
Sundance, Stamdance, Rotterdam: Trends point to doc resurgence, but 1999 may be year that escapes definition.
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Myles Berkowitz, Walkter Salles
Doc-style comedy has been a success, but best perk was falling
Doc-style comedy has been a success, but best perk was falling.
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Rock the Boat
Stanley Kubrick Crosses the Line
A personal look at what the master meant to one moviemaker
A personal look at what the master meant to one moviemaker.
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The Best Boxing Movies Of All Times
The Best Boxing Movies of All Time
It's an ugly and magnificent game. It's the embodiment of our desire to see the whole of human conflict stripped down to a single, conclusive battle.
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Boxing’s Back
But will the new movies be contenders or pretenders?
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Rebel Director John Boorman
For his latest, Boorman reunites with Deliverance star, Jon Voight, and produces The General, his best movie in years.
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Jackie Chan at the Crossroads
At 44, even as the world's #1 action superstar reaches new heights of popularity, he admits he can't keep up his pace forever. But does that mean he's (gulp) about to turn to romance?
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How to Beat the Odds with Indie Distributors
Outspoken reps from four aggressive companies speak candidly about independent distribution. A must-read story for indie moviemakers.
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Walter Murch: Cutting from the Heart
The Academy Award-winner explains why timing and instinct are everything.
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Strategies for Selling Your Film
Director-producer-author Eric Sherman tells us what he's learned over the years on the fine art of getting someone to buy your art.
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Bryan Singer, Confidence Man
His first feature, Public Access, won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize. His second, The Usual Suspects, achieved extraordinary commercial success. His new movie, the risky, controversial Apt Pupil, should sin its unusually self-assured young director new fans and new respect for a vision and style all his own.
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Beauty Beneath the Brutality: Japanese Masters Mizoguchi and Ozu
Japanese Masters Mizoguchi and Ozu
Kurosawa's contemporaries nearly forgotten by American audiences.
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The Director’s Heart: Akira Kurosawa, 1910-1998
His films stand out as some of the most visually arresting of all time.
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Micro Budget Movement and the Digital Revolution
Peter Broderick is determined to empower indie moviemakers. His company's philosophy may represent the Next Wave in the micro-budget feature movement.
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Billy Bob Thorton: The Hillbilly Orson Welles
From Arkansas to Armageddon, Billy Bob Thorton reflects on what a long, strange trip it's been.
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Getting the Most out of Film School
You'll be graduating from film school before you know it. What happens then? Or are you thinking of taking the plunge and have a few programs to check out? What should you look for?
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The Three-Week Screenplay
Moviemaking Advice From America's #1 Film Instructor
How to write your first draft in 21 days.
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Demystifying Deliverables
You're finished with your film and you think you've really accomplished something. You have. But don't gloat until you're sure your movie is completely deliverable. Here's a checklist.
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Shooting Stars: Interviews with the World’s Greatest Living Cinematographers
Talking with Shooting Stars
From Storaro and Wexler to Hall and Nykvist, they're all h, they're all here. Geffner tracked down cinema's most revered light-painting legends and made them talk about art, film and some favorite moments.
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Best Cameras For The Independent Moviemaker
Light years beyond film theory, an eclectic sampling of working DP's share the nuts-and-bolts details on the cameras they prefer for independent moviemaking and why.
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Titanic’s Cinematographer Russell Carpenter
The 15th of the world's greatest living cinematographers featured this issue, Oscar-winning DP Carpenter discusses James Cameron, arduous shoots, and the "little pictures" he'd like to tackle next.
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Myth-making With Natural Light
Nestor Almendros
The artistry of late, great cinematographer Nestor Almendros.
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Self-Distribution Secrets
No distributor? You're not out of the game yet.
No distributor? You're not out of the game yet.
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