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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
One day, when there's real interactivity, it will be just like life, with stories generating themselves. People will be getting online, and some guy will decide to shoot some other guy. Suddenly, a thriller exists.
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Slevinth Heaven
Screenwriter Jason Smilovic on Lucky Number Slevin
Here's the set-up: You're the son of a New York video store owner, proclaiming to your mom, "I'm gonna make it as a screenwriter." Using her unconditional support as fuel, you fire up the ol' laptop and churn out more words per minute than Mavis Beacon can track. Suddenly, multiple production teams jump on board. Paul McGuigan, director of the cult hit Gangster No. 1, joins the team. To seal this sweet deal, Sir Ben Kingsley, Morgan Freeman and Bruce Willis sign on. Things become exciting. This is the life of screenwriter Jason Smilovic.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Build your foundation with the basics: Read folk stories, fairy tales, ancient plays, Shakespeare and mythology (and not just Greek and Roman-explore Chinese, African and Native American myths as well). Each offers a unique perspective on the world and the human condition and could be the foundation for your next big idea.
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Novel Scribe
Screenwriter Matthew Waynee explores the Unknown
What would you do if you woke up chained inside a dungeon and couldn't remember anything about how you got there or what you had done? You could be a good guy or a bad guy, a hero or a traitor. In that moment of unknown terror, what would you do? These are the questions that screenwriter Matthew Waynee explores in his new film, Unknown.
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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
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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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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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
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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Timing is Everything
A Conversation with Series 7 Writer-Director Daniel Minahan
Before seven strangers headed off to the Australian Outback to do battle with ferocious beasts and other contestants, Daniel Minahan was hard at work on the screenplay for Series 7, a movie that takes reality TV to the ultimate Twilight Zone degree.
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Crime Pays for Writer Alan Sereboff
A Conversation with Alan Sereboff
It's hard to write one screenplay at a time, let alone more than one! Here, Hollywood's newest scribe, Alan Sereboff, talks about making it in Hollywood and how he handles the pressure of adapting Adrenalynn, Snowblind and Omerta, while his own script,The Payback All-Star Revue, is in development.
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James Schamus’ Kung Fu Writing
A Conversation with James Schamus
When it comes to independent film stalwarts, James Schamus has worked with some of the biggest. For Ed Burns' breakthrough film, The Brothers McMullen, Schamus served as executive producer and he helped to produce that film's follow-up, She's The One.
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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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