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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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Filling A Void
HDFEST's Issac Alexander Speaks About the Future of Moviemaking
Perhaps even before George Lucas informed the movie industry that there is life after film, Issac Alexander and Marisa Cohen were in the planning stages of HDFESTãthe world's first festival dedicated solely to the exhibition of high definition products.
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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
Sometimes you can see better and tell a story better if you are outside a little bit.
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Lucky Breaks
Q & A with Cinematographer Jim Denault
Since lensing his first feature, Michael Almereyda¼s Another Girl, Another Planet, in 1992, cinematographer Jim Denault has become the DP of choice for some of the independent film world's most recognized talents. Now, he's teamed up with director Jim McKay (Girls Town) to help create the realistically gritty world of three young women growing up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in Our Song.
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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
I like to put myself in the position of the audience, because they don't know any of that stuff anyway.
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Q & A with Planet of the Apes Editor Chris Lebenzon
For the past two decades, Lebenzon has been averaging about one feature per year, working alongside such directors as Tim Burton, Michael Bay and Tony Scott.
For the past two decades, editor Chris Lebenzon has been averaging about one feature per year, working alongside such directors as Tim Burton, Michael Bay and Tony Scott with such films as Ed Wood, Crimson Tide and Pearl Harbor to his credit. This summer, Lebenzon's most recent work can be seen in Planet of the Apes.
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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
They don't want freedom. They sometimes complain and say 'You are telling me exactly what I have to do!' but they love it. They love it when the part is laid out for them, and they don't have to make those kinds of decisions. You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor.
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Mythology and Moviemaking
A Conversation with John Boorman
Like the tropical nightmares of Joseph Conrad, the films of John Boorman lead us down rivers-real and imagined-into the heart of what ails us, and the quest for a remedy. Boorman's latest picture, The Tailor of Panama, adapted from the novel by John Le Carre, takes us back to the wasteland-this one of the tropical, urban variety.
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Inventor of the Online Film Festival
A Conversation with ClickFlick's Michael Perry
There aren't too many peaks in the motion picture world that Michael Perry hasn't scaled. After attending film school, Perry began directing television commercials. From there, he launched a lengthy and successful career as a music producer. And in 2000, he stuck a flag atop the Internet with his company, ClickFlick.
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The Franchising of a Film Festival
An Interview with FirstGlance Founder Bill Ostroff
FirstGlance Film Festival founder Bill Ostroff is quite adept at juggling many responsibilities. When not working as a full-time moviemaker, writer or production coordinator, he finds the time to run the world's first and only bi-coastal film festival, FirstGlance.
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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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The Madness of a Method Editor
It's Still All About the Storytelling for Robert Ferretti, A.C.E.
Though he's earned a name for himself working on big-budget action flicks like Rocky V, On Deadly Ground, Showdown in Little Tokyo and Die Hard 2, Robert Ferretti has proven his versatility by being the creative force in the editing room for such off-beat independent fare as Dwight Yoakam's South of Heaven, West of Hell and Timothy Rhys' Men in Scoring Position.
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Things I’ve Learned As A MovieMaker
Always make movies for yourself. Never try to second-guess the public in any sort of way because you will always fall flat on your face.
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Shooting on Instinct
An Interview with Michael Radford
Oscar-nominated moviemaker Michael Radford has explored the worlds of George Orwell (1984) and Pablo Neruda (Il Postino); Africa (White Mischief) and Scotland (Another Time, Another Place); and now the exotic world of a San Fernando Valley strip club known as The Blue Iguana.
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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
There is no greater thing than to keep learning, and you do that when you have the opportunity to work with the most creative people in the world, as you do in the movie business.
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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
You learn to stay true to the page. No matter how hard this movie got in terms of the logistics, I focused on the script. What does this scene mean to me? What does that line mean to me?
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Life on Mars
A Conversation with Red Planet's Antony Hoffman
First-time director Antony Hoffman's recently released Red Planet has got film fans wondering: is there life on Mars? And, if so, why is he searching for it in the Australian outback?
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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
What I have learned from my filmmaking experience is to trust my instincts.
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Shooting Action
An Interview with Renny Harlin
Finnish director Renny Harlin has been actively making big-budget, action films in the U.S. since the mid-1980s, when he made a splash with the high-profile sequels A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Warriors and Die Hard 2: Die Harder.
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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 Gray Goes the Distance
An Interview with James Gray
We haven't heard much from director James Gray since he wowed us with his directorial debut, Little Odessa. This month, James Gray is back with an all-new film and an all-star cast including Faye Dunaway, Ellen Burstyn and Mark Wahlberg in The Yards.
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Ed Harris’ Artist’s Sensibility
Ed Harris on Pollock - The Man and the Film
Ed Harris has long been heralded as one of the better actors of our time, and he's gotten two Oscar nods to prove it (Apollo 13; The Truman Show). Along with taking on the title character in the new film Pollock, Ed Harris has turned auteur by adding two new titles to his resume: director and painter?
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Michael Berenbaum: Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
First and foremost, you have to trust yourself, not let anyone talk you out of what you want. You have to trust your heart.
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Dale Pollock’s World Wide Web of Film
An Interview with Dale Pollock
Dale Pollock, author, moviemaker, and current dean of the film school at the North Carolina School of the Arts, has strong opinions on all things cinema. Among his many credits are writing Skywalking, George Lucas's biography, and producing films such as Blaze and Set it Off.
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It’s Official—Pre-production Begins
“I never ask people for permission to make a film. Instead, I present them with the fact that I’m making a film. If they’re wise, they’ll get in on it early.”
—Francis Ford Coppola
Last week our unit production manager for Rufus Rex officially started work and I paid UPS an astounding amount of money to deliver a letter to the Republic of Georgia officially inviting our lead actress to the United States. We’re also officially in pre-production on the grassroots (my preferred term, since I dislike “microbudget”—no art should be defined by its budget) movie Rufus Rex, which my 15-year-old son, Nick, and I wrote together last winter.
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