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Master of the Universe
Director Frank Coraci has the world in the palm of his hand
Curtiz and Bogart. Kurosawa and Mifune. Herzog and Kinski. Scorsese and De Niro. Coraci and Sandler? College buddies Frank Coraci and Adam Sandler may not be aiming to make the next Casablanca, but there’s no denying the magic that exists in their collaborations. Of the five feature films that Coraci has directed, Sandler has starred in three of them—including The Wedding Singer and The Waterboy—and together they’ve brought in close to a half billion dollars at the box office.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
I think, especially these days, one of the big advantages of DV is you can just make a film. You don't have to wait two years while someone decides whether or not to finance your script. As soon as I hear someone is waiting for a financier to finance a script I'm like 'Just write the script! What have you got to lose?' It doesn't cost you anything to write, so why don't you just write the script?
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Just Shoot It
Michael Winterbottom owes much of his prolificacy to the digital revolution
It's hard to imagine Michael Winterbottom ever being bored. Since 2002 he's leapfrogged from one project to the next, releasing at least one film a year, each as different in story as it is in style. This year he has released two: First was the comedy Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, where Winterbottom teamed with Steve Coogan to adapt what's known as the "unfilmable novel." Now it's his most political film to date, the DV docudrama The Road to Guantanamo, which won him the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.
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The Color of Forbidden Fruit
Chen Kaige lights up the screen with The Promise
Longtime fans of Asian cinema might be jarred by director Chen Kaige's radical stylistic turn with The Promise. But they shouldn't be surprised. Having endured China's Cultural Revolution during his youth, the director is no stranger to abrupt cultural shifts, violent social upheaval and the need for adaptation.
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‘Populist Festival’ Matures
Manhattan Short Film Festival's Nicholas Mason brings it to the people
Ever thought you had better taste than a film festival jury? Well, now's your chance to prove it! Celebrating its sixth year, the Manhattan Short Film Festivaldecided to go online-and give the first 100,000 visitors to their Website the chance to "be the judge" of their film festival, broadcast live from NYC's Union Square Park on Sunday, September 28th. But whether you attend the live, free event or log on and watch, one thing's for sure: choosing the best of this talented dozen will be a difficult task. The winning prize? Resources and cash to make a feature film!
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Freedom and Frustration
48-Hour Film Project's Mark Ruppert on Creativity and Limitations
Entering into its third year, the 48 Hour Film Project has invaded more than a dozen cities worldwide-beginning in our nation's capital and traveling as far overseas as Auckland, New Zealand and London, England. Now, with the National Film Challenge, you can be a moviemaker anywhere and participate. Ruppert discusses the Project's genesis and why such a short timespan is freeing and frustrating all at once.
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All Grown Up
Kansas International Film Festival founder Ben Meade on Kansas' biggest film event
The Kansas International Film Festival may be located only halfway to Hollywood, but their dedication to innovative and socially conscious films extends to the moviemaking capital and beyond. Founded in 2001, the fourth annual Kansas International Film Festival will take place this September--but MM sat down with festival founder Ben Meade to discuss how moviemakers can get involved today.
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Indie Movie Guide
Reviews of some of the independent film world's newest independent films
In this month's edition, check out reviews of:Iditarod... A Far Distant Place, Making a Killing: Philip Morris, Kraft and Global Tobacco Addiction, Alzira: A Matriarch Tells Her Story, and Nice Guys Sleep Alone.
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An Interview With DV Expo’s Scott Gentry
Setting goals and taking on challenges is nothing new for Scott Gentry.
When Scott Gentry decided to launch his own automotive video production company, DV Magazine became his guide to buying tools. He enjoyed the magazine so much, in fact, that he eventually sent the editors a resume, which led to working his way from the sales department to publisher. Now, as Group Director, he oversees not only the magazine and Website, DV.com, but the DV Expo tradeshow.
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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
In terms of progressing either as a technician or, if you like, an 'artistically-inclined technician,' as long as you keep practicing your art, it's going to get better.
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From the Battlefield to the Deep End
A high contrast conversation with British cinematographer Giles Nuttgens
For British cinematographer Giles Nuttgens, the accolades he's receiving for The Deep End must seem like a trip from the ridiculous to the sublime. Last year critics described his work on the John Travolta bomb Battlefield Earth as dark and murky. But that was last year...
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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
You have to choose your battles, so to speak, when doing lower budget films.
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The Importance of Intention
A Conversation With Heist Editor Barbara Tulliver
There's something to be said for being in the right place at the right time. Barbara Tulliver made her move to the cutting room quite by chance, starting in commercials and eventually assisting directors David Mamet and Milos Forman in the late '80s. When Mamet's regular editor was unavailable to work on Homicide, he offered Tulliver the job. Since then, she's edited a steady stream of films for the prolific director, including last year's State and Main and this year's Heist.
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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
If you want to learn what kind of a filmmaker you are then trust your artistic instincts first, commercial instincts second and parents' instincts last. If you want to make a lot of money, reverse these.
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The Director who Defies Audience Expectations
An Interview with Brad Anderson
Leave it to writer/director Brad Anderson to defy audience expectations. Though he's often been pigeonholed as 'the romantic-comedy guy' following the success of his first two features, The Darien Gap (1995) and his breakthrough hit, Next Stop Wonderland (1998), he's changing that rep with his latest two films. First up is the psychological thriller Session 9, followed closely by the romance with a sci-fi twist, Happy Accidents. Here, Anderson talks with MM about his conscious decision to cross genres and why he's looking forward to making a studio film.
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Indie Movie Guide
Reviews of some of the independent film world's newest independent films
In this month's edition, check out reviews of: Definitely Not Hollywood, The Heck with Hollywood, Chick Movie, Sally and Angela, Homedaddy and Fusion One.
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Talent and Toughness: Are Great Directors Born or Made?
Working director Guy Magar takes two decades of experience on the road with his take-no-prisoners weekend film school.
Director Guy Magar just completed the suspense thriller Children of the Corn: Revelation, based on Stephen King's original story for the Miramax/Dimension label, slated for release October 14th, 2001. His film directing credits include Showdown, starring Matt LeBlanc of TV's "Friends," Stepfather 3 (HBO World Premiere), and the cult thriller Retribution.
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The Peak Experiences of Pip Karmel
He will talk me through the rushes when we're having screenings at the end of the day but it's either pretty self explanatory; when you look at the material you can see what he's intending.
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The Peak Experiences of Pip Karmel
Editor/director shines in her latest, Hearts in Atlantis
Though she went to film school to become a director in her own right (which she has accomplished with Me, Myself, I), it was while still in school that Pip Karmel began her collaboration with director Scott Hicks. Since then, she's returned to the editing chair twice -- both times for Hicks -- first to cut Shine, and now for his latest film, Hearts In Atlantis.
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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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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
I like to direct each scene knowing it's part of a much bigger fabric.
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Prolific Aussie Helmer Beresford takes on Bride of The Wind
Film chronicles story of woman with a most extraordinary range of love affairs of any woman in history
After 30 years of moviemaking and almost as many features to his credit, Australian director Bruce Beresford is far from a household name in the US. With a handful of classics under his belt-Breaker Morant, Tender Mercies, Crimes of the Heart, Driving Miss Daisy, Black Robe-he typifies the seasoned journeyman for whom good work is its own reward.
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Indie Movie Guide
Reviews of some of the independent film world's newest independent films
In this month's edition, check out reviews of: Definitely Not Hollywood, The Heck with Hollywood, Chick Movie, Sally and Angela, Homedaddy and Fusion One.
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Triangles and Tribulations
How Two Moviemakers Helped to Revolutionize the Online Distribution Game
Since 1991, Anthony Soohoo has been at the forefront of the Internet revolution, working with such giants as Apple, Yahoo!, NEC and Inktomi. In his current position as COO of ALWAYSi, a leading online film exhibition and distribution site, he continues to keep one step ahead of Internet trends.
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An American in Tokyo
A Conversation with American Short Shorts' Doug Williams
For more than a decade, Douglas Williams has been working to bring together American and Japanese cultures. As president and co-founder of the American Short Shorts Film Festival, he's found a way to ingrain the American short film format into Japanese culture.
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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
You have the courage of your convictions. When you're editing you have to make thousands of decisions every day and if you dither over them all the time, you'll never get anything done.
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Master of the Hidden Cut
A Conversation with Editor Anne Coates
During her more than 50 years in the craft, editor Anne Coates has been a collaborator and ally to many of the world's finest directors including Sidney Lumet, David Lynch, Milos Forman and Steven Soderbergh. Currently on the set of Adrian Lyne's Unfaithful, she talks with MM about her fairytale beginnings with The Red Shoes.
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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
I think it's really important to always keep in mind that you are an outsider and if you're trying to make something that's realistic, you need to do a certain amount of work to make sure that it's alright.
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Coming of Age
A Conversation with Indie Auteur Jim McKay
With the release of 1996's Girls Town, writer/director Jim McKay showed that teen films can be political. Though he's returning to familiar territory with Our Song, he proves that similar subject matter can yield a completely original and compelling story.
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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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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
Story is my guideline. I know the improv has to hit certain points. There will be a few things in a scene that [the actors' have got to hit in order for my entire story to work into a two-hour movie.
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Catching Lightning In a Bottle
A Conversation with Frank Oz
Frank Oz's success as a director comes from a passion for building believable characters, a quality that is evidenced in his latest film, the star-studded heist flick, The Score.
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