All posts by Ted Elrick
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Luc Besson’s Technology Allergy, Squid Superpowers and a Really Complicated Market: Inside Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is a longtime passion project of French director-writer Luc Besson, known for his imaginative... -
Of Bad Apes and Twisted Revenge: Matt Reeves, Steve Zahn, Weta Digital and Others on War for the Planet of the Apes
Actor Steve Zahn—known for his roles in That Thing You Do, Riding in Cars With Boys, and Dallas Buyers Club—once stumbled onto... -
The Family That Makes Movies Together Stays Together: Working With Your Kids? It’s Possible, Say These Clans
When veteran moviemaker Larry Fessenden was shooting his 2001 feature Wendigo in upstate New York, his wife, director Beck Underwood, brought their... -
Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2015: Top 10 Big Cities
All this week, we’re releasing the 2015 edition of our annual Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker list, in... -
Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2015: Top Five Small Cities
All this week, we’re releasing the 2015 edition of our annual Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker list, in... -
Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2015: Top Five Towns
All this week, we’re releasing the 2015 edition of our annual Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker list, in...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Flash Forward: Grace Van Patten Takes a Leap into the Unknown in David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
Many actors will tell you that when you read a great script, you just know. But for Grace Van Patten, it was actually not knowing that...1Inside the Issue: Directing
Success in Succession: Matteo Garrone Shot Dogman Entirely in Sequence to Put Viewers in His Character’s Shoes
I wrote the script for my new film, Dogman, 12 years ago, and during those years I changed it many times, arriving at six or seven...Inside the Issue: How To
Journalism Plus: How Hail Satan?, The Brink, and Leaving Neverland Blend Truth-Seeking With Cinematic Storytelling
“Journalism Plus” is how Academy Award-winning moviemaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) characterizes making documentaries. If you’re a documentarian, you may not have a degree or credentials in...8