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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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Best of the West
Take a quick gallop through this column and you can't go wrong at the video store next time you're hankerin' for a Western.
From High Noon to Unforgiven, a glance at some of the great Westerns.
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From Russia with Lens
We'd been hearing conflicting reports about those new, low-cost Russian cameras. So we decided to check them out for ourselves.
Are those new Russian cameras a viable alternative to the cameras you can't afford?
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Auditioning for Love and Money
Forget about trying to please the director-getting the part takes getting the character
Auditioning is what actors really do for a living. Here's how to do it better.
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Laid Back and Cool, Telluride Style
Intimacy, not elitism, is the motto for the organizers of the 20th annual summer affair in Colorado
Colorado's Telluride Film Festival is one of the coolest summer festivals around.
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MM Notebook
Letters
D. Russell
Spanking the Monkey
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John Dahl
Red Rock West director John Dahl draws inspiration from classic film noir
Red Rock West
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Shaking It Up On The Internet
Moviemaker Tiffany Shlain uses multimedia to take on distributors and Hollywood
Moviemaker Tiffany Shlain uses multimedia to take on distributors and Hollywood.
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Tonya Harding Financed My Film
In which Rustin Thompson, professional voyeur, turns trash into cash for the sake of art
Tonya Harding Financed My First Film
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The Rage of Innocents
A MovieMaker interview with actors Ian Hart and Stephen Dorff on love, torment and the making of BackBeat.
Actors Stephen Dorff and Ian Hart talk about youth, passion, and fighting for the right reasons on the set of BackBeat.
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BackBeat Cheat Sheet
Fortunately, docudramas like BackBeat don't live and die by their historical authenticity.
How accurate should moviemakers be when shooting "docudramas?"
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Regarding Henry
With the release of BabyFever, this independent's independent has proven again he's found a formula that works.
A portrait of Henry Jaglom, the "West Coast Woody Allen." This self-made moviemaker, whose latest project is BabyFever, explains why women keep him Eating.
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Is Seattle Asleep at the Reel?
In the competition to attract producers, Seattle is gaining a dubious reputation as the Greta Garbo of film cities. Do we really want to be alone?
Seattle's hot, it's sexy, and as far as film production goes, it's dead. This potentially lucrative location is definitely missing the ferry, but is it really all the Canadians' fault?
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And The Beat Goes On
Backbeat is the latest example of the cinema's ongoing romance with The Beatles.
Why The Beatles have always been fertile cinematic territory.
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The Killer B’s Return
The production code may have lessened their firepower, but the later noir gangster movies are still a blast.
He was no James Cagney, but Richard Widmark is at his insane best in Fox Video's Gangster Collection.
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Festivals for the Masses
Along with the Seattle International Film Festival, the city plays host to two less-known festivals this month.
A new column highlighting… you guessed it-film festivals. This month we look at Seattles' Asian American and Gay and Lesbian Festivals.
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua is Leader of the Pack
New Disney family film Beverly Hills Chihuahua found its way to the top this past weekend, grossing an impressive $29 million. Last weekend's box office-topper, Eagle Eye, took the number two spot with $17.7 million. Michael Cera comedy Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist claimed number three with a gross of $12 million while number four went to the romantic Nights in Rodanthe (last week's number two) with $7.4 million. Rounding out the top five was Ed Harris' critically acclaimed Western Appaloosa. The buzzed-about How To Lose Friends & Alienate People came in well below expectations, making only $1.4 million and barely hanging on at number 19.
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