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Soldiering On
Screenwriter Eric Axel Weiss on adaptations and Evian bottles
Plenty of screenplays have instigated debates. A few have incited riots. But only Eric Axel Weiss can lay claim to writing a script that prompted a Sundance audience member to launch an Evian bottle across a crowded room-nearly clobbering Oscar-winning actress Anna Paquin.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
The one lesson I've learned over and over again is that you can only learn from your own mistakes. No matter how much advice you have before you embarks, you need to learn your filmmaking lessons in the first person.
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Getting Technology Out of the Way
The Orphanage's Stu Maschwitz and Scott Stewart talk digital
When you've spent much of your career mastering the art of visual effects with George Lucas' Industrial Light + Magic, there's only one place to go: The Orphange. Founded by three former ILM visual effects artists, The Orphanage is focused on high-end VFX services and animation for features and broadcast, original motion picture and television production and digital filmmaking technology development and licensing.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Films were marked by the personality of the filmmakers. Even when they were reinventing genres, the filmmakers didn't just churn out marketable product-the made great films which were also box office hits with the public. The movies were smart and the studios were making money.
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First-Run Home Movies
Larry Meistrich on Film Movement
What does a producer do after finding tremendous success with more than 100 independent films and having served as the head of a top indie studio for more than 10 years? If you're Larry Meistrich, founder of the now-defunct Shooting Gallery and producer of such Oscar-nominated films as Sling Blade and You Can Count on Me, you could invent a whole new kind of distribution company and attempt to change the face of indie film exhibition.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Learn your job and learn it well. Be considerate of other people. And work hard. If you do that, everything should come to you.
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Owen Roizman Looks Back
Famed DP brings his legend to UCLA
Take most any hardcore film buff's top 10 list, compare it with cinematographer Owen Roizman's resumé and chances are good that you'll find some crossover. With movies as memorable as The French Connection, The Exorcist, The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 and Network to his credit, Roizman's resumé is deep enough to make even the most talented moviemaker envious.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Approach every project as if it were your first. Be open to where it takes you.
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The Camera Turns Inward
DP Thomas Ackerman gets documented on "Project Greenlight"
A cinematographer's place is behind the camera. But
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Bucking the Digital Trend
Several moviemakers are embracing Super 16 for their new features
DV may be the format making headlines, but many experienced moviemakers aren't ready to give up on film just yet. While many are heralding HD as the medium of choice, a handful of moviemakers who are shooting Super 16 sat down to discuss the renewed interest in 16mm--and Super 16 in particular.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
I like to do the low-budget films in between bigger movies because I learn things on low-budget movies that I can apply to bigger ones. The bigger ones usually run on fear--everybody is just always trying to cover themselves; they're afraid to do things. So the only way to express yourself artistically in a lower-budget medium.
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Back to Basics
Famed DP Elliot Davis returns to Super 16 with Thirteen
If you're familiar with Elliot Davis' work at all, you know he's a world-class
cinematographer. But he prefers the simple label of "artist." Specifically, "an
artist who expresses himself through cinematography." He's collaborated with
several high profile directors, such as Steven Soderbergh and Spike Lee, but
his latest movie, Thirteen, was directed by newcomer Catherine Hardwick. Here,
Davis discusses the common vocabulary he shared with Hardwick, hand answers
some of Thirteen's many critics.
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Finding a Movie’s Core
Famed DP John Seale claims it's all about the actors
In a career that's spanned almost three decades and several
Academy Award nominations, John Seale is proud to count Peter
Weir, John Badham, Michael Apted, Barry Levinson, George Miller,
Sydney Pollack, Ron Howard, John Boorman, Rob Reiner, Lawrence
Kasdan and Anthony Minghella among his list of collaborators.
While awaiting the release of Cold Mountain, his third
film with Minghella, and settling into James L. Brooks' new
project, Spanglish, Seale took a few minutes to discuss
the ways he keeps his work fresh and why his best film will
always be his next one.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Six months after I finish shooting a movie, I look at it with a horrifying eye. 'What was I thinking of? That's so silly that I'd love to reshoot it.' In one funny kind of way it's because of the editing; you see the rhythm and the flow of the film and you'd love to reshoot it.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
There are only two questions you need to ask yourself. The first is: What are you going to do? The second is: How are you going to do it?
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First Impressions
Celebrated cinematographer Fred Murphy knows what he wants
Fred Murphy may say it's by chance that he's managed to escape
being pigeonholed as a DP, but it's certainly not the luck
of the draw that's brought him to his current prominence
in the industry. Fresh off the set of David Koepp's Secret
Window, starring Johnny Depp, Maria Bello and John Turturro,
Murphy talked straight about his desire to be challenged—and
why all DPs like their movies dark.
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A Moviemaker Under the Influence
Richard LaGravenese discusses his non-fiction debut
Chat with any moviemaker long enough, and the subject of the
"New Hollywood" films of the 1970s is likely to
come up. It was this decade that helped forge the relationship
between moviemakers Richard LaGravenese and Ted Demme—and
was the impetus for their new collaboration, A Decade
Under the Influence.
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Just Do It
DV Dojo's Michael Rosenblum on the democratization of moviemaking
Part health club, part Internet café and part moviemaker hangout, New York City's DV Dojo is changing the way people approach film-and taking their students from "aspiring moviemaker" to "first-time director" in as little as one weekend.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
The one piece of advice that I would impart to anybody who is looking to be an editor or any other aspect of this business is always remember that making movies is about investigating all possibilities. You should always be open to different options. If you get focused into making something one way, you may not make the best film.
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Life with Spike
Moviemaker Sam Pollard puts his money where his mouth is
Though he's best-known as a frequent collaborator of Spike Lee, both as editor and producer, Samuel Pollard isn't afraid of wearing the hat of writer or director, either-or putting his money where his mouth is.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
There are films that are made as pieces of expression-films that are made because people need to tell certain stories and need to get things out of them. Then there are films that are made because a group of executives around a conference table decide that they need to slot in Movie X during Release Pattern Y to fulfill Demographic Z.
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From Blockbusters to Billy Bob
Screenwriter Ed Solomon makes directorial debut with Levity
A subtle character drama is probably not what you'd expect
as the directorial debut from the scribe behind such Hollywood
blockbusters as Men in Black and Bill and Ted's
Excellent Adventure. But to hear Ed Solomon tell it, you
can't judge a moviemaker by his/her IMDB credits.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
The chances of getting rich from an indie movie are so slim that you might as well consider it to be zero, so instead have some fun doing it.
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Digital Straight Talk
DVFilm's Marcus van Bavel tells it like it is
Whether you're looking for a place to transfer your latest project or just to get some solid advice on the ever-changing world of digital technology, DVFilm's owner and chief engineer Marcus van Bavel will give it to you straight.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Never be afraid of being fired. Stick to your guns if you know something is right. You'll usually be respected for it later.
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Hands-on-Moviemakers
New York Film Academy students discuss the film school experience
Deeming itself the "hands-on film school" since opening its doors 10 years ago, the New York Film Academy has been dedicated to the belief that "a top-quality education in filmmaking should be accessible to anyone with the drive and ambition to make films." Here, students Don Boner and Peter Cohen square off about how far that education has taken them.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
I believe the cinematographer needs to create a framework or philosophy for him or herself so that they can visualize the film in every detail, from the macro to the whole.
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Lessons from Confidence Man
Q & A with director James Foley
After the screening of his new film last month, James Foley,
the director of such modern American classics as Glengarry
Glenn Ross and After Dark My Sweet talked about
his craft to a packed AFI audience.
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A DP’s Basic Instinct
Cinematographer Steve Mason on film and family
Who you know might be the first step to success in Hollywood, but the Australian film community plays by a different set of rules. Even with a successful producer dad—and frequent dinner guests such as Peter Weir and Philip Noyce—Steve Mason had to work his way into the industry. As he wrapped shooting on Luke and Andrew Wilson’s The Wendell Baker Story, Mason took time to rap with MM on his more than two decades behind the camera.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
After people tell you they have "problems" with your script, let it sit for a month, change the title sheet and send it out telling everyone you've done a major "re-write"-you will be amazed how much their perception changes!
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Digital Monster
Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato talk about shooting Party Monster on DV
While the decision to shoot digital rather than film is a
big one for any first-time feature moviemaker, Fenton Bailey
and Randy Barbato are not typical first-time helmers.
Though Party Monster marks their feature directorial
debuts, they have been working together in the non-fiction
realm for several years now, with such films as The Eyes
of Tammy Faye and Monica in Black and White to
their credit.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
I am very respectful of the relationship between the director and the DP. I have never inserted myself into the discussion of the look of the film, but I have, of course, requested specific shots.
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The “Image Processor” as Unsung Hero
An Interview with Kristina Boden
Having worked consistently with Michael Almereyda (on Happy
Here and Now and Hamlet) and Paul Schrader (including
Auto Focus and Light Sleeper), editor Kristina
Boden maintains an open mind when any new project comes
up-even after a very full decade of experience.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
(a.k.a. 10 Random Thoughts That Make Me Sound Wise)
An Interview with Kristina Boden
Having worked consistently with Michael Almereyda (on Happy
Here and Now and Hamlet) and Paul Schrader (including
Auto Focus and Light Sleeper), editor Kristina
Boden maintains an open mind when any new project comes
up-even after a very full decade of experience.
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Creating the Pixar Phenomenon
Screenwriter/genius Andrew Stanton on family films and fish
Writing the words that will come out of a flesh-and-blood
actor's mouth is one thing. But writing dialogue for a wooden
cowboy, a renegade ant, a child-scaring monster and a kidnapped
clownfish is a completely different story-and writing process.
Finding Nemo's Andrew Stanton talks about
what it takes to succeed in the family entertainment game.
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