Stories By Rebecca Pahle
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Articles - Cinematography
Wisdom: Sol Negrin on Teaching Cinematography
August 5, 2013Veteran cinematographer Sol Negrin, ASC understands the challenges of bringing cinematography from the set to the...
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Articles - Directing
Resurrecting Sixto Rodriguez: Malik Bendjelloul’s Searching For Sugarman
July 26, 2012In the 1970s, the music of a mysterious singer-songwriter named Rodriguez became the anthem for a...
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Articles - Directing
Deconstructing Dad with Stan Warnow
July 12, 2012If someone had suggested to me 20 years ago that I make a personal film about...
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Articles - Distribution
Box Office Goes R-Rated with Ted and Magic Mike
July 2, 2012After three weeks of kid’s movies dominating the box office, R-rated comedies Ted and Magic Mike...
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Blog - MM Remembers
MM Remembers: Nora Ephron
June 27, 2012Nora Ephron, the director behind rom-com classics You’ve Got Mail and Sleepless in Seattle (both of...
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Articles - Distribution
Brave Fells the Competition
June 25, 2012Pixar showed Honest Abe where it’s at; Brave‘s opening weekend saw the animation giant’s first female-led...
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Articles - Festivals
Celebrating the Power of Collaboration with CFC
June 22, 2012Film is a collaborative medium. Every moviemaker knows it, and it’s a fact that is celebrated...
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Articles - Directing
Taking a Leap of Faith
June 19, 2012Director Vikram Gandhi is not a guru. But he plays one in the documentary Kumaré, opening...
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Articles - Distribution
Madagascar 3 Stays on Top
June 18, 2012Neither Tom Cruise nor Adam Sandler had the power to take down a bunch of talking...
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Articles - Festivals
Shorter is Better at the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival
June 14, 2012The 2012 CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival (WSFF) has come to a close, and with the...
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Articles - Festivals
Eden, Any Day Now Are the Big Winners at the 2012 Seattle International Film Festival
June 11, 2012The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), the country’s largest in terms of both number of films...
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seattle international film festival siff catalyst
June 9, 2012This weekend marks the final days of the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF). The country’s largest...
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Archives
Going Grassroots: Stephen Gyllenhaal talks local politics and his new movie
June 7, 2012The closing night film at this year’s Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), which wraps up its...
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Archives
“Write What You Know”: Michael Connors on Allegiance’s move from short to feature film
June 7, 2012Writer/director Michael Connors’ Allegiance (Working Title: Recalled), based on his award-winning 2006 thesis short of the...
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Directing
Meet Jesse Baget’s Cellmates: How to make a comedic social commentary work
May 31, 2012When you pitch a comedy about a Ku Klux Klansman around Hollywood you tend to get...
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Articles - Distribution
Men in Black III Unseats The Avengers
May 29, 2012After three weeks of box office dominance, The Avengers (weekend gross $36.9 million, total gross $513.8...
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Cinematography
Celebrating Female Vision: Cinematographer Anette Haellmigk Wins the Kodak Vision Award
May 25, 2012Over a long and accomplished career, cinematographer Anette Haellmigk, whose credits include “The West Wing,” “Big...
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Articles - Directing
James Franco vs. the Fact Checkers Unit
May 24, 2012Director Dan Beers’ moviemaking success story began with his short film FCU: Fact Checkers Unit, which...
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Cinematography
Celluloid Dreams: Matthew Mishory Shoots a First Feature on Film
May 24, 2012Director Matthew Mishory’s debut feature, Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean, is a visually...
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Articles - Acting
Film History’s Top Five Funny, Foolish, Freaky Aliens
May 23, 2012The original Men in Black, released in 1997, was a pitch-perfect combination of action, comedy and...
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Articles - Directing
Having Big Fun in the Big Town
May 21, 201226 years after it was filmed, Dutch director, journalist and rap aficionado Bram Van Splunteren’s Big...
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Articles - Distribution
Battleship Sunk by The Avengers
May 21, 2012It’s three weeks of box office dominance and counting for The Avengers, which easily kept new...
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Articles - Distribution
Dark Shadows Can’t Bring Down The Avengers
May 14, 2012The Avengers handily overpowered Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows over the weekend, becoming the top film at...
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