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Bulletproof on Broadway
By Jeff Schwager
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.
Clerks Proves Ignorance is Bliss
By MovieMaker Staff
With no budget and a toy slate, Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier show all you really need are guts.
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.
Features: Confessions of the Adrenaline Junkies
By Kathleen McInnis
Stuntmen and women are the unsung heroes of the motion picture industry. Why do they do it?
Sound Acting Advice
By Colleen Patrick
Establishing and training your voice can mean a potentially lucrative supplement to your acting income.
Tough Gal Faye Dunaway Keeps Going with Arizona Dream
By Kathleen McInnis
Despite her status as a film legend, American studios still seems reluctant to release Dunaway's finely crafted and low-profile "art" films.
Carty Talkington Hits the Mark with Love and a .45
By Tom Allen
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.
Tom Noonan Tries to Figure Out What Happened
By Lyall Bush
Financed with his own money, actor and first-time director Tom Noonan's What Happened Was... has become another 1994 indie success story.
Fresh Director Boaz Yakin Proves You Can Make it Sans the Hype
by Ann Hedreen
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?
In My Japanese Cousin, The Talent’s in the Music
By George Wing
Maria Garguilo finds the Seattle scene a source of fledgling actors and cheap labor for her first feature, The Year of My Japanese Cousin.
Notebook: MM Notebook
By Timothy Rhys
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.
Features: Reviews: Ed Wood Have Been Proud
By Paula Hunt
Tim Burton, who gave the horror genre a “Leave it to Beaver” twist with Frankenweenie, made Paul Reubens a role model in Pee Wee’s Big Adventure and added a hint of menace to Batman, has moved beyond TV-land inspirations to make a movie about a moviemaker. With Ed Wood, Burton has created a weirdly loving portrait of a man often mentioned as the worst director of all time.
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