Wisdom: Sol Negrin on Teaching Cinematography
Veteran cinematographer Sol Negrin, ASC understands the challenges of bringing cinematography from the set to the classroom. Now a professor at New York’s Five Towns...
Resurrecting Sixto Rodriguez: Malik Bendjelloul’s Searching For Sugarman
In the 1970s, the music of a mysterious singer-songwriter named Rodriguez became the anthem for a generation of Afrikaners increasingly isolated from the outside world...
Deconstructing Dad with Stan Warnow
If someone had suggested to me 20 years ago that I make a personal film about my father, I would have dismissed the idea out...
Box Office Goes R-Rated with Ted and Magic Mike
After three weeks of kid’s movies dominating the box office, R-rated comedies Ted and Magic Mike surpassed expectations to earn weekend grosses of $54.1 million...
MM Remembers: Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron, the director behind rom-com classics You’ve Got Mail and Sleepless in Seattle (both of which she also wrote), passed away yesterday in her...
Brave Fells the Competition
Pixar showed Honest Abe where it’s at; Brave‘s opening weekend saw the animation giant’s first female-led film pull in $66.7 million at the box office,...
Celebrating the Power of Collaboration with CFC
Film is a collaborative medium. Every moviemaker knows it, and it’s a fact that is celebrated by the Collaboration Filmmakers Challenge (CFC). The only moviemaking...
Taking a Leap of Faith
Director Vikram Gandhi is not a guru. But he plays one in the documentary Kumaré, opening tomorrow, which sees him adopt the guise of an...
Madagascar 3 Stays on Top
Neither Tom Cruise nor Adam Sandler had the power to take down a bunch of talking animals at the box office. New releases Rock of...
Shorter is Better at the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival
The 2012 CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival (WSFF) has come to a close, and with the fest’s Closing Awards Picnic, held on June 10th, two...
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(More) Essential Moviemaking Podcasts: Five Laudable Audibles for Your Educational Pleasure
Directing is a fairly strange craft to try to learn, in part because you rarely get a chance to watch other directors at work. Determined moviemakers exhaust all the...
1Inside the Issue: Festivals
50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2017
Are film festivals getting better? That is, are they providing you—independent moviemakers—more of the things you want and need? I think they are. After all, it makes sense: With...
11Inside the Issue: Producing
How to Always Deliver: Denise Di Novi on Gilding a Package, Dealing With the Artistic Temperament and Sniffing Out Hits
Denise Di Novi has forged a moviemaking career by avoiding the kind of carelessness that often bankrupted her peers. Instead, she developed and refined a keen sense for emotional...