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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? (No comments yet)


Sound Acting Advice

Establishing and training your voice can mean a potentially lucrative supplement to your acting income. (1 comment)


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. (No comments yet)


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. (No comments yet)


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. (No comments yet)


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? (No comments yet)


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. (No comments yet)


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. (No comments yet)


Clerks Proves Ignorance is Bliss

With no budget and a toy slate, Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier show all you really need are guts. (No comments yet)


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. (No comments yet)


Ben Stiller Bytes

An Interview with Ben Stiller

When Reality Bites for Ben Stiller, he creates his own. And he's on a roll. (No comments yet)


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