Summer 2017

Summer 2017

  • Summer 2017

The Touring Talkies of India: India’s Mobile Theaters Are Becoming Extinct, As Doc The Cinema Travellers Depicts

Red mud-baked roads. A smoggy pink dawn. Air redolent with saffron. Loudspeakers propped precipitously. Two boys by a microphone hush…

7 years ago
  • Summer 2017

The Conviction of a Misguided Visionary: These Three Prison Inmates Are Looking To Moviemaking As Their Salvation

There’s a lot of tough talk about braving the “art life,” and with good reason. Trying times—from being exploited in…

7 years ago
  • Summer 2017

Making a Living by Mixing Media: How to Make the Leap From Directing Features to Directing Television

Imagine a world where you earn a steady, livable paycheck doing what you love—directing—and little else. That picture, sadly, doesn’t…

7 years ago
  • Summer 2017

Flash Forward: Patti Cake$’s Danielle Macdonald and Geremy Jasper are the Duo Responsible for Your Next Summer Jam

She spits out rhymes with savage ease, and faces her New Jersey combat zone armed only with her enlarged aspirations.…

7 years ago
  • Summer 2017

On the Inside: To Make His Feature Shot Caller, Ric Roman Waugh Learned How to Shoot in a Real-Life Prison

Shot Caller was the most physically demanding film I ever shot: an authentic look at our prison gangs and the…

7 years ago
  • Summer 2017

Labors of Love: With the Robert Pattinson-Starring Good Time, the Safdie Brothers Have Officially Made It

On the back of the door to the office of Elara Pictures, the production company created and run by fraternal…

7 years ago
  • Summer 2017

The Trip to Spain: Michael Winterbottom, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon Return With The World’s Unlikeliest Buddy Film Franchise

There's an odd, enjoyable predictability to The Trip to Spain, the third of Michael Winterbottom's Trip movies—the first two of…

7 years ago
  • Summer 2017

Spinning Glass: Destin Daniel Cretton’s The Glass Castle Revolves Around a Family Life Both Romantic and Unbearable

For the start of production on The Glass Castle, Destin Daniel Cretton wanted to scale a mountain. One could argue…

7 years ago
  • Summer 2017

Getting Lucky in Nevada: With a Restored Tax Incentive and Plenty of Locations, There’s More to Nevada Than Casinos

Showbiz. Shenanigans. Sizzle. Sin City has long played home to high-octane cinematic productions. More often than not, the blinding neon…

7 years ago
  • Producing

Numerous Projects in Various Stages of Development: Summer—Fall 2017

Here we keep tabs on some ready-to-roll indie features being made from summer of this year 'til fall of next.…

7 years ago