All posts by Kelly Hughes
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Intravenous Video
By definition (my own), Intravenous Video causes a physical change in the viewer, whether real or perceived. By this definition I would include any film...
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Scraping Bottom
Evil priests. Lascivious nuns. Mischievous monkeys in a graveyard. What genius dwells in the minds of low-budget moviemakers. What quirky flourishes of inspiration. What splendid...
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Portrait of the Screenwriter as a Young Man
I met George Wing through his girlfriend, who was working an unglamorous day job with me at a discount brokerage. He was (and still is)...
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Posing at the Posies
Chances are you live in Seattle, so you know what moshing is. I knew, too- sort of. Moshing, I discovered, is a kinder, gentler slam...
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High on Hollywood
When I talked to Steve Wright recently he was negotiating a deal for a used helicopter from New Mexico. "How much do one of these...
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Video Masturbation
No, I’m not talking about the kind of self-abuse induced by Debbie Does Dallas. But video masturbation is an Old Testament-style waste as sinful as...
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Sweet Little Films
It’s hard for Zola Mumford to watch Hollywood movies. She says there’s very little in them that a young, woman of color can relate to....
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Video Is Not Slumming
If you’re going to read this column, we must first verify your qualifications. How many of these items apply to you? 1. You own a...
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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...