All posts by Caleb Hammond
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High-Concept High School: The Teenage Experience Gets Universal in Ry Russo-Young’s Before I Fall
For those of us suffering fatigue from the endlessly recycled Young Adult genre, Ry Russo-Young’s adaptation of Lauren Oliver’s YA bestseller Before... -
Criterion Crash Course: Moviemaking Lessons From Criterion’s The Tree of Wooden Clogs
Whether you’re a moviemaker, critic or devoted film collector, lovers of cinema can all agree: A Criterion Collection release is a stamp... -
How to Do the Hustle: Use Craigslist, IMDbPro and Other Job Boards to Jumpstart Your Film Career
The daunting task of moving to a new city alone and attempting to break into the notoriously nepotistic community that is the... -
Gimme Shelter: Seven Movies About Immigration
In the light of Donald Trump’s recent executive order temporarily banning travel from seven Muslim-majority countries into the Unites States, we’re revisiting... -
Festival Spotlight: Myrtle Beach International Film Festival’s Jerry Dalton Keeps Politics Strictly Out of It
Think of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and “film” might not the first word to enter your mind. If so, you haven’t met... -
Criterion Crash Course: Moviemaking Lessons From Criterion’s The Executioner
Whether you’re a moviemaker, critic or devoted film collector, lovers of cinema can all agree: A Criterion Collection release is a stamp... -
Crowdfunder Pick: Vidiots Video Store in Santa Monica
Crowdfunding has become an invaluable tool for the indie filmmaker seeking funds for the start or completion of a project. And here... -
Criterion Crash Course: Moviemaking Lessons From Criterion’s The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
Whether you’re a moviemaker, critic or devoted film collector, lovers of cinema can all agree: A Criterion Collection release is a stamp... -
“You’re in the Business of Storytelling:” Meera Menon on Equity and How Investment Banking Parallels Filmmaking
Early on in Meera Meenon’s new film, Equity, investment banker Naomi (Anna Gunn) delivers a speech at her alma mater, asking that... -
Premade to Order: 20 Credit Sequence and FX Templates That Will Raise Your Game
Have you gotten so caught up with the rest of your film that you’ve left precious little time to put together a...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles...Inside the Issue: Directing
Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid...Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s...