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Don't have that cavernous location your horror screenplay calls for? Build it yourself! Watch this video to see how the…
“Reformed criminals have a skill set naturally transferable to moviemaking,” says Spencer Penney. “Criminals are misguided visionaries."
Once you've checked these script breakdown steps off your list, any scheduling details that previously eluded you and your crew…
As with its distinctive wine, San Luis Obispo’s careful cultivation of its supporting independent arts community has made the event…
Paul Verhoeven shoots action with clarity locks and loads action-heavy sequences with meaning in his modern classic, RoboCop.
Watch these videos on Ingmar Bergman's signature style to discover how the auteur uses mirrors, faces, close-ups and phantom images…
The logistics of your location choice are as crucial as its aesthetic value. Put these eight things on the checklist…
Watch this video for an exhaustively detailed look at the lenses, filters and coloring that serve cinematographer Janusz Kaminski's distinct…
Watch how Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower director Joe Piscatella rose to the challenge of shooting protest footage that isn't "generic."
Watch these videos with I Love Dick cinematographer Jim Frohna's commentary to learn what framing and camera movements can add…
Watch these videos to see how Camera Obscura director Aaron B. Koontz used invisible cuts, steadi-cam shots and more to…
Watch how co-directors Peter Spirer and Peter Baxter tweaked their cinematography tools and toyed with temporality to shoot Spirit Game:…
Editor Nat Sanders discusses what he's learned about editing thus far, how he cut a key scene from Moonlight the…
Watch this exclusive video for I Love Dick co-creators Jill Soloway and Sarah Gubbins' secrets on their writing process, post-production…
Watch these eye-popping and laser-focused scenes from Amariah Olson's The Shadow Effect for his tips on prepping FX and getting…
Watch director Alexander Nevsky's commentary on these two exclusive clips from Black Rose to learn the importance of starting your…
In its 18th year, Newport Beach Film Festival rode the waves of surfing culture and hosted the largest pool of…
Watch this video on Lars Von Trier's Melancholia to learn how warped time, musical motifs and narrative incoherence work to…
In Tampopo, just released by Criterion, food-worship is conveyed in inventive vignettes. Let's look at how these side stories bring…
Watch this supercut of Al Pacino's most over-the-top moments to learn how the right framing can deepen viewers' perspective of…
Explaining how something is funny is sometimes a fool's errand, but this video on Edgar Wright's visual comedy helps make…
The Quad, once Greenwich Village's premier indie theater, is making a comeback. Director of Programming C. Mason Wells tells us…
Werner Herzog talks poetry, politics, food waste, Donald Trump and Mike Tyson in this wide-ranging interview on his films' view…
Steven Seagal isn't much more than the butt of film geek jokes these days, but there's a reason why the…