All posts by Alex Ross Perry
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New Film, New Challenge: How Alex Ross Perry Built Intricate Sets, Embraced Collaboration to Make Golden Exits
Each film is about its own challenges. This doesn’t mean logistical hurdles but, rather, the challenge of never repeating yourself, of always... -
The Marriage of Character and Plot: Alex Ross Perry on Screenwriting
Listen Up Philip‘s writer-director, Alex Ross Perry, investigates the primary symbiosis of the writing process. A movie begins with a single image...
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Sydney on the Map: To Land Breakout Roles, Sydney Sweeney Draws Her Own Maps of the Characters She Inhabits
A reverent initiate of a patriarchal regime; a disturbed young psychiatric hospital ward; a sexually questioning teen with a flair for the dramatic; a mysterious denizen...1Inside the Issue: Directing
Think Like A Photographer: Generation Wealth’s Lauren Greenfield Shares How Still Techniques Make Better Movies
The biggest change I experienced when I went from making pictures to making films was the sense of an arc—of creating a story over time, and...Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: Casting Unknowns Was Key to Finding the Laughs and Lived-In Feel of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade
Before I directed my first film, Eighth Grade, I had heard that 90 percent of directing is casting. I’m sure there are other directors who weigh...2