All posts by Patrick Maxwell
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Editing in a Pinch: Sony’s Catalyst Production Suite Makes a Speedy, Simplified Tool
There have never been so many good options for non-linear editing (NLE) software. Over the years, one-time industry standard Avid Media Composer has met with...
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Best of 2014: Top Five Song Choices in 2014
What makes a great song choice in a film? The best ones aren’t just cool tracks that “sound good” with the picture, as in a...
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“Tim League’s Mega-Awesome Distribution Strategies”: Four Progressive Ideas from Film Independent Forum 2014
Each year, L.A.-based organization Film Independent hosts the Film Independent Forum, a three-day conference for independent moviemakers. This year’s line-up included a Nightcrawler screening and...
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True Invisibility: An Interview with Editors Stephen Mirrione and Douglas Crise of Birdman
The “single shot” that underpins Alejandro González Iñárritu’s new movie, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), is an immersive, visceral experience, form at its most...
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Nosferatu Reawakens: An Evening with Werner Herzog and a New 35mm Print of Nosferatu the Vampyre
In 1979, Werner Herzog made Nosferatu the Vampyre. Today it stands as one of the strongest among over 200 film adaptations of Bram Stoker’s 1897...
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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...
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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...