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Issue #31 [December 1998]

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

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: 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.

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.

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

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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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