All posts by Dave Roos
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A Decade Under the Influence of The Blair Witch Project
January evening in 1999, standing in front of the Egyptian Theatre in Park City, Utah, as the line of moviegoers snaked around the side of...
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From YouTube to Borat: The Jackass Generation
Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Paul Soter, Steve Lemme and Erik Stolhanske in Beerfest (2006). I don’t remember how or why I got there, but the...
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Hollywood Goes Green
For those who doubt the awesome power of celebrity, we give you the Toyota Prius hybrid. When the Prius debuted in the U.S. in 2000,...
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Artists Across Borders
Art knows no borders. If only the same were true for artists’ rights. As a recent Italian court case reminds us, American moviemakers are better...
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Collateral Damage
By the old definitions of art and commerce, Hollywood movies are “show business” and independent films—which no one expects to make money—are “cinema.” But now...
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Life After Katrina
Since 2002, the state of Louisiana has been positioning itself as the “other LA.” That’s the year the Louisiana state legislature passed the Louisiana Motion...
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Year in MovieMaker
Inside the Issue: Acting
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 are just a handful...
1Inside 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 Antarctic waters as...
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 cancer diagnosis hidden...