Max Weinstein

  • Frame of Mind

Frame of Mind: To Build Dread, Dementia 13’s Crew Shot Handheld and Made Its Tunnel Location From Scratch (Video)

What makes a scene work? Does it lie in the carefully executed plans of a film's cast and crew? Or…

7 years ago
  • Summer 2017

The Conviction of a Misguided Visionary: These Three Prison Inmates Are Looking To Moviemaking As Their Salvation

There’s a lot of tough talk about braving the “art life,” and with good reason. Trying times—from being exploited in…

7 years ago
  • Directing

Breaking Down Your Script? Follow These Steps to Mark and Tag Your Way Through Pre-Production (Video)

1st ADs in pre-production: Are your project's scenes marked and tagged for shooting? If so, great! You'll more or less know…

7 years ago
  • Festivals

San Luis Obispo International Film Festival 2017: It’s Quaint at First Glance, but SLO Has a Lot Going On

Long after the boysenberry aromas of a San Luis Obispo-made Zinfandel were washed from my palate, the local flavor of…

7 years ago
  • Directing

Doing Action Justice: Watch How Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop Gives Excessive Action the Treatment It Deserves (Video)

If Paul Verhoeven has taught moviemakers anything during his time spent directing blockbusters, it's that action and violence can be as…

7 years ago
  • Directing

Dream On: Watch How Ingmar Bergman Laid the Groundwork for Cinematic Depictions of Dreams (Video)

From Maya Deren to David Lynch, the cinematic "fever dream" has been conjured by many, but mastered by few. Ingmar…

7 years ago
  • Producing

On the Lookout For Your Next Location? Don’t Forget These Eight Keys to Foolproof Scouting (Video)

When scouting for locations, moviemakers automatically consider what's going to be in the frame, but sometimes tend to forget that what's out of it…

7 years ago
  • Cinematography

Shedding Light: Watch This Enlightening Breakdown of DP Janusz Kaminski’s Signature Lighting Techniques (Video)

For every production, there are existing sets, and then there are additional set layers whose creation depends upon harnessing those sets'…

7 years ago
  • Frame of Mind

Frame of Mind: Watch How Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower Followed Multiple Points of Action to Shoot a Protest (Video)

What makes a scene work? Does it lie in the carefully executed plans of a film's cast and crew? Or…

7 years ago
  • Frame of Mind

Frame of Mind: Watch How I Love Dick DP Jim Frohna’s Framing Heightens Characters’ Emotional Conflicts (Video)

What makes a scene work? Does it lie in the carefully executed plans of a film's cast and crew? Or…

7 years ago
  • Frame of Mind

Frame of Mind: Take Advantage of Darkness to Craft Jump Scares, Says Camera Obscura Director Aaron B. Koontz (Video)

What makes a scene work? Does it lie in the carefully executed plans of a film's cast and crew? Or…

7 years ago
  • Moviemaking

Frame of Mind: Doubled Lenses, Distorted Time Heighten Sports Action in Spirit Game: Pride of a Nation (Video)

What makes a scene work? Does it lie in the carefully executed plans of a film's cast and crew? Or…

7 years ago
  • Editing

Moonlight Co-Editor Nat Sanders Talks Quitting Your Day Job, Disagreeing With Directors and That Awkward Oscars Moment

Though his nomination for a Best Editing Oscar for Moonlight wasn't as monumental as his co-editor Joi McMillon's—she was the first African-American to…

7 years ago
  • Directing

Watch: Jill Soloway and Sarah Gubbins Talk Writing I Love Dick, Post-Production Tricks and More (Video)

The first season of I Love Dick has launched on Amazon Video, and the show's slyly funny take on gender and sexuality…

7 years ago
  • Frame of Mind

Frame of Mind: Over-Prepare For Tricky FX And Long Shoot Days, Warns The Shadow Effect Director Amariah Olson (Video)

What makes a scene work? Does it lie in the carefully executed plans of a film's cast and crew? Or…

7 years ago
  • Moviemaking

Frame of Mind: You Need At Least One Big Scene To Sell Your Movie, Says Black Rose Director Alexander Nevsky (Video)

What makes a scene work? Does it lie in the carefully executed plans of a film's cast and crew? Or…

7 years ago
  • Festivals

Festival Wrap: Big-Wave Surfing and an Ocean of International Selections Glisten at Newport Beach Film Festival

Newport Beach Film Festival's 18th annual run has come to a close, marking another year that the SoCal luxury spot…

7 years ago
  • Other

Impressions of Depression: Watch How Lars Von Trier Manipulates Cinematic Time to Convey Mental Illness (Video)

Slow motion: For people with clinical depression, it's the human brain's own in-built special effect. A sense of warped, skewed…

7 years ago
  • Criterion Crash Course

Criterion Crash Course: Moviemaking Lessons From Criterion’s Tampopo

Whether you’re a moviemaker, critic or devoted film collector, lovers of cinema can all agree: A Criterion Collection release is…

7 years ago
  • Acting

In the Lion’s Den: Watch How Al Pacino’s Performances Chew the Scenery—and Everyone Else In Frame (Video)

A select few actors have managed to maintain some semblance of control while going "over the top." By now the…

7 years ago
  • Directing

Laughing Academy: Learn the Principles of Funny Framing With This Breakdown of Edgar Wright’s Visual Comedy (Video)

How has the contemporary American comedy lost its way? It's not that it's no longer funny, says Every Frame a…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

Getting With the Program: Quad Cinema Is the Latest Addition to a Growing Wave of NYC Indie Arthouse Exhibition

"The economics of an arthouse cinema are not kind, I'll admit," says C. Mason Wells, Director of Programming at Quad…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

“This Is Not Our Planet Anymore”: Werner Herzog on Why He Makes Movies From “The Quasi-Perspective of an Alien”

"Did you drink some sort of strange herbal tea this morning?" That question, asked of me by Werner Herzog as…

7 years ago
  • Acting

Street Appeal: Watch This Breakdown of How Bankable of an Action Star Steven Seagal Was in His Prime (Video)

During a time when "one-man army" stars of the rugged individualist 1980s like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone set the bar of…

7 years ago