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Issue #10 [November 1994]

Features: Lessons From Orson
By Henry Jaglom
One of Orson Welle's closest friends in his later years, Henry Jaglom shares advice from his mentor. Plus, a review of a "new" Welles film.

Features: What Do Distributors Want From Us, Anyway?
By Keith Bearden
The second installment on our continuing series on "How to Avoid Distribution Hell." This time we talk to four microdistributors.

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Issue #09 [September 1994]

How To Lose $1.2 Million And Shoot Your Feature Anyway
By Kathleen McInnis
Seattle moviemaker Tim Hines gives Crispin Glover the heave-ho, loses $1.2 million in financing and makes his feature anyway. All in one continuous take.

Jonathan Blank
By Kathleen McInnis
Jonathan Blank does Amsterdam.

Alex Winter
By Keith Bearden
Alex Winter freaks out.

Rutger Hauer
By Lyall Bush
Rutger Hauer gets old.

Notebook: MM Notebook
By Timothy Rhys
What a long, strange trip it's been - and we're not quite a year old yet.

Festival Beat
By Brian O'Hare
The Independent Feature Film Market in New York is where indies go to get noticed.

Stars in Your Eyes? Here’s Looking at You
By Colleen Patrick
Take it from Frank Capra - using your eyes effectively is one of the keys to becoming a film star.

“Heads Up” Video Monitoring Is Here
By Kennedy Grey
Virtual Vision's "heads up" video monitor may soon be a practical alternative in the field.

Bloody Sam’s Misogynistic Vision
By Rustin Thompson
Did Sam Peckinpah hate women? While the director's cinematic voice was lone and eloquent in his idealized depiction of the traditional American male, his females definitely got no respect.

The Motion Picture Association of America: Natural Born Censors?
By Jeff Schwager
When Clerks got slapped with the dreaded NC- 17, Jeff decided to recap the MPAA's reasoning behind a ratings system he believes is seriously out of order.

Features: Lina Wertmüller, Lost and Found
By Jon Silberg
Although Ciao, Professore! is an upbeat departure from her previous work, that doesn't mean the brilliant Italian director is any easier to understand.

Features: Is Film School Worth It?
By Tom Allen
Didn't two or three really great movies get made before anyone ever heard of film school? Is formal education really the answer for aspiring moviemakers? Several successful motion picture directors give us their opinions.

Features: Wild Hill
By Marianne Cotter
Like Peckinpah before him, Walter Hill has been accused of making movies that revel in violence. He answers that charge and talks about his new film, Wild Bill.

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Issue #08 [August 1994]

Features: Shaking It Up On The Internet
By Wendy Wilson
Moviemaker Tiffany Shlain uses multimedia to take on distributors and Hollywood.

Tonya Harding Financed My Film
By Keith Bearden
Tonya Harding Financed My First Film

John Dahl
By Keith Bearden
Red Rock West

D. Russell
By Pete Sheehy
Spanking the Monkey

Letters: Letters
By Letters

Notebook: MM Notebook
By Timothy Rhys

Laid Back and Cool, Telluride Style
By Brian O'Hare
Colorado's Telluride Film Festival is one of the coolest summer festivals around.

Auditioning for Love and Money
By Colleen Patrick
Auditioning is what actors really do for a living. Here's how to do it better.

From Russia with Lens
By Jack Watson
Are those new Russian cameras a viable alternative to the cameras you can't afford?

Best of the West
By Tom Barr
From High Noon to Unforgiven, a glance at some of the great Westerns.

Stillman’s Wit
By Jeff Schwager
Once again Whit Stillman proves that small, dialogue-driven films can still find an audience. Especially if they're witty.

Features: Psycho Analysis
By Paula Hunt
Long before Friday the 13th, before Nightmare
on Elm Street, before Halloween, there was Psycho.
You don't need a Ph.D. to understand this film, and after
reading this article, you'll realize that wouldn't help anyway.

Features: First Lady of Horror
By Kathleen McInnis
In a new book Janet Leigh remembers how she terrified the nation 34 summers ago in one of the greatest horror films of all time.

Features: Back on the Mainscreen
By Tom Allen
Moviemakers are starting to take the shorter format seriously, as markets start to open up for the first time in recent memory.

Features: Out of the Shadows
By Jeff Schwager
Screenwriting has been very good to David Koepp, who's had five of his scripts made into major Hollywood movies in the last two years.

Features: Decline of the Western
By Lyall Bush
Sure the Western's back, but do today's directors really understand what made "cowboy movies" one of the best loved genres in the world?

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Issue #07 [June 1994]

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Issue #06 [May 1994]

Mein Seattle Kampf
By Alec Carlin
A tongue-in-cheek look at the struggles of one Seattle-based producer.

Steady as He Goes
By Tom Allen
Brad Nelson of Seattle shoots and all-steadicam feature and shakes up the film world.

Letters: Letters
By Letters

Festivals for the Masses
By Brian O'Hare
A new column highlighting… you guessed it-film festivals. This month we look at Seattles' Asian American and Gay and Lesbian Festivals.

The Killer B’s Return
By Tom Barr
He was no James Cagney, but Richard Widmark is at his insane best in Fox Video's Gangster Collection.

And The Beat Goes On
By Jeff Schwager
Why The Beatles have always been fertile cinematic territory.

Features: Is Seattle Asleep at the Reel?
By Kathleen McInnis
Seattle's hot, it's sexy, and as far as film production goes, it's dead. This potentially lucrative location is definitely missing the ferry, but is it really all the Canadians' fault?

Features: Regarding Henry
By Marianne Cotter
A portrait of Henry Jaglom, the "West Coast Woody Allen." This self-made moviemaker, whose latest project is BabyFever, explains why women keep him Eating.

Features: BackBeat Cheat Sheet
By Pete Sheehy
How accurate should moviemakers be when shooting "docudramas?"

The Rage of Innocents
By Kathleen McInnis
Actors Stephen Dorff and Ian Hart talk about youth, passion, and fighting for the right reasons on the set of BackBeat.

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Issue #05 [April 1994]

Are Women Psycho or is it Just Hollywood?
By Shea Salyer
Women are psycho. A billion movie viewers can't be wrong. Can they?

How I Made a 1 Mil. Feature Virtually for Free
By Timothy Rhys
A Seattle man tells how he made a million dollars movie without cash.

Marty and Me
By Timothy Rhys
Dan Algrant tells Martin Scorsese gave him his big break.

Letters: Letters
By Letters

Bitter is Better
By Mike Walker
Hudsucker gets mooned, but Bitter does better.

Bullets as a Gimmick
By Taso Lagos
A moviemaker "bites the bullet" to get his film in the limelight.

Intravenous Video
By Kelly Hughes
Movies affect you like a drug. And reading this column could put you in detox

Bit Men and Hitmen
By Tom Barr
Corman's Carnosaur is a poor man's Jurassic Park. Now that's scary.

The Movies are Shrinking
By Jeff Schwager
A new generation of movie producers are looking to TV for inspiration.

Features: Cut to: The Quick
By Tom Allen
Are the new down-and-dirty, nuts-and-bolts flim seminars a viable alternative to traditional film school?

Features: Grant’s a Hugh Success
By Kathleen McInnis
With three features out this month, coming to America is a lucrative proposition for Hugh Grant.

Features: Peter Coyote is Not P.C. 
By Kathleen McInnis
The favored son of the cult film circuit tells it like it is.

Features: Roman Keeps on Rolling
By Kathleen McInnis
With his devilish new movie, Bitter Moon, Polanski is back. An overview of the influential director's career.

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Issue #04 [March 1994]

Portrait of the Screenwriter as a Young Man
By Kelly Hughes
An interview with George Wing, a Seattle-based screenwriter with lots of options for his future.

Pay Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
Paula Hunt & Tom Barr
Paula Hunt reviews The Phantom Empire, and Tom Barr gives a thumbs up to Behind the Oscar: A Secret History of the Academy Awards.

Notebook: MM Notebook
By Timothy Rhys
Hot air, braggadocio, and ramblings from the editorial department.

American Messiah
By Taso Lagos
American Messiah diary, part IV. In the wee hours, a moviemaker ponders his feature's box office potential.

Scraping Bottom
By Kelly Hughes
More than you ever need to know about the Lucky Charm awards.

Another Getaway
By Tom Barr
With The Getaway remake, Jim Thompson's cult status is alive and well.

Spielberg Finally Wins the Gold
By Jeff Schwager
Oscar predictions and reflections from the editor of LA's BoxOffice Magazine.

Features: Learning the Biz
By Tom Allen
Young moviemakers are seeking a formal education in the craft now more than ever, and it's changing the industry.

Features: Citizen Cotten
By Tom Barr
During his forty-year career, Joseph Cotten's presence was felt in some of the most presitigious films of all time.

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Issue #03 [February 1994]

High on Hollywood
By Kelly Hughes
A strong Washington film industry would be a book for businesses like Steven Wright's helicoptor company.

Letters: Letters
By Letters

Heaven and Earth More Like Purgatory
By Mike Walker
Unlike Pualine Kael, our indomintable reviewer agrees to sit through another Olive Stone extravaganza.

Making a Movie, Cont.
By Taso Lagos
At the editing stage a movie takes ona life of its own.

Posing at the Posies
By Kelly Hughes
A brief analysis of "moshing" as it applies to moviemaking. Seriosly, folks.

A Touch of Welles
By Tom Barr
Orson Welles must be having a good last laugh at that wrap party in the sky.

Making History Hollywood Style
By Jeff Schwager
Speilberg's spoonful of sugar prevents Schindler's List from being one of the all-time greats.

Features: Extreme Projectionist
By Paula Hunt
Dennis Nyback's Pike Street Cinema could be the Northwest's most unusual movie house.

Features: Mike Leigh
By Jeff Schwager
With his Cannes Best-Director award and a hot new movie, Director Mike Leigh may finally get the popular recognition he deserves.

Features: “Making it” in Super 8
By Tom Allen
A new film stock is helping make Super 8 a viable format for professional moviemakers.

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Issue #02 [January 1994]

Features: That’s a Wrap
By Paula Hunt
The First "Annual" Port Townsend Feature Film Conference is a bust

Sweet Little Films
Tim Rhys & Kelly Hughes
Seattle moviemakers Zola Mumford and Tom Hodgson do the chin wag, and we write it down.

Providence Comes Through
By Taso Lagos
The maker of Seattle's latest no-budget feature has a chance to catch his breath.

Video Masturbation
By Kelly Hughes
You can do it all in the video world… but are you the master of your doman?

Carlito’s Way Off
By Mike Walker
Reviews of The Piano and Carlito's Way.

Triumph and Tragedy
By Tom Barr
The only U.S. film ever blacklisted debuts on home video.

Visions From Down Under
By Jeff Schwager
The sensibilities of foreign directors seem to change after coming to America.

Features: McElwee’s March - Part 2
By Paula Hunt
The art hours phenom talks about the changes success has brought to his career.

Features: Joy & Luck in Hollywood
By Jeff Schwager
He may be the busiest screenwriter in Hollywood, but this Oscar-winner wouldn't have it any other way.

Scapegoat: Hollywood
By Mark Eleison
Will the movie industry censor itself now that government has threatened to clean up its act?