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Issue #31 [December 1998]

Beauty Beneath the Brutality: Japanese Masters Mizoguchi and Ozu
By Rustin Thompson
Kurosawa's contemporaries nearly forgotten by American audiences.

The Director’s Heart: Akira Kurosawa, 1910-1998
By Carmen Ficarra
His films stand out as some of the most visually arresting of all time.

Features: Bryan Singer, Confidence Man
By Patrick Francis
His first feature, Public Access, won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize. His second, The Usual Suspects, achieved extraordinary commercial success. His new movie, the risky, controversial Apt Pupil, should sin its unusually self-assured young director new fans and new respect for a vision and style all his own.

Features: Strategies for Selling Your Film
Eric Sherman with Karen Holly
Director-producer-author Eric Sherman tells us what he's learned over the years on the fine art of getting someone to buy your art.

Features: Walter Murch: Cutting from the Heart
By Victor Wishalla
The Academy Award-winner explains why timing and instinct are everything.

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Issue #30 [September 1998]

The Three-Week Screenplay
By Dov S-S Simens
How to write your first draft in 21 days.

Features: Demystifying Deliverables
By Paul Tarantino
You're finished with your film and you think you've really accomplished something. You have. But don't gloat until you're sure your movie is completely deliverable. Here's a checklist.

Features: Getting the Most out of Film School
By MovieMaker Staff
You'll be graduating from film school before you know it. What happens then? Or are you thinking of taking the plunge and have a few programs to check out? What should you look for?

Features: Billy Bob Thorton: The Hillbilly Orson Welles
By David Geffner
From Arkansas to Armageddon, Billy Bob Thorton reflects on what a long, strange trip it's been.

Features: Micro Budget Movement and the Digital Revolution
P. Broderick, J. Bachar, S. Noegel, G. Wing, and C. Zack
Peter Broderick is determined to empower indie moviemakers. His company's philosophy may represent the Next Wave in the micro-budget feature movement.

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Issue #29 [July 1998]

Myth-making With Natural Light
By Rustin Thompson
The artistry of late, great cinematographer Nestor Almendros.

Self-Distribution Secrets
By Dov S-S Simens
No distributor? You're not out of the game yet.

Features: Titanic’s Cinematographer Russell Carpenter
By Christopher Zack
The 15th of the world's greatest living cinematographers featured this issue, Oscar-winning DP Carpenter discusses James Cameron, arduous shoots, and the "little pictures" he'd like to tackle next.

Features: Best Cameras For The Independent Moviemaker
By Justin Clayton
Light years beyond film theory, an eclectic sampling of working DP's share the nuts-and-bolts details on the cameras they prefer for independent moviemaking and why.

Shooting Stars: Interviews with the World’s Greatest Living Cinematographers
By David Geffner
From Storaro and Wexler to Hall and Nykvist, they're all h, they're all here. Geffner tracked down cinema's most revered light-painting legends and made them talk about art, film and some favorite moments.

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Issue #28 [April 1998]

Smart, Clean, Raw
By Kathleen McInnis
What an indie movie should be.

Lesli Linka Glatter
By Erich Leon Harris
A conversation with Lesli Linka Glatter, director of the indie film, The Proposition.

MovieMaker Breakthrough Award Winners Tell Their Stories
By Harris Done
Done's Sand Trap wins at Hollywood Film Festival and Higby's Matters of Consequence wins at New Orleans film Festival. Read how these indie filmmakers survived and flourished in the grinding ordeal of low-budget moviemaking.

Julia Stiles
By Timothy Rhys
A veteran at the tender age of sixteen, Julia Stiles tells MovieMaker how she's working her way into The Industry.

Rus Raves and Rants
By Rustin Thompson
The best and worst of 1997 on video. Indie writer and director, Rus Thompson, reviews 14 indie films of transfixing beauty and mystical exploration as well as some flops that are embarrassing to watch.

Letters: Letters
By Letters

Features: Up and Away with Michael Apted
By Pamela Klaffke
The acclaimed, enigmatic British director of the 28-Up series reflects on his career and his unique new documentary film, Inspirations.

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Issue #27 [January 1998]

Casting: What To Look For
By Judith Weston
Author and educator Judith Weston offers insights from her many years of casting for the movies.

The Daytrippers and Fearless Filmmaking of Ocean Tribe
By George Wing
Sex, lies team saw gold in Greg Mottola and Will Geiger shoots for the stars in Mexico.

Features: An Overview of Desktop Moviemaking
By Michael E. Phillips
Digital moviemaking didn't take off until 1992, but now about 80 percent of Hollywood movies are edited digitally. As costs come down, the indies are beginning to catch up.

Features: Bridget Fonda On Her Own Terms
By Timothy Rhys
She believes that to define is to diminish, but nothing can diminish the fact that the actress who plays Jackie Brown's raunchy party girl is the definition of laid-back California cool.

Features: Ray Carney on The State of Independent Film, Part II
By Ray Carney
MovieMaker's favorite independent film pundit takes a few jabs at the motion picture establishment and attempts to get us to stop taking true indie film artist for granted.