Summer 2018

Summer 2018

  • Book Reviews

Book Review: Shaping Light for Video in the Age of LEDs

“Lights, camera, action!”—the classic, Old Hollywood call to arms. The adage remains, but—as articulated by career gaffer and lighting designer…

5 years ago
  • Book Reviews

Book Review: Understanding Steven Spielberg

Much has been written about Steven Spielberg. He is, after all, the highest-grossing director of all time, and has managed…

5 years ago
  • Summer 2018

The Best Film Schools in the U.S. and Canada, 2018: 40 Tuition Fee-Worthy Film Programs Staying Ahead of the Curve

As the fickle entertainment business tilts slowly (but perhaps decisively) away from the director’s medium—cinema—to that medium more associated with…

6 years ago
  • Book Reviews

Book Review: Hitchcock’s Heroines

Caroline Young is the Scottish author of several books on film and fashion, most recently Hitchcock’s Heroines, a big, beautiful…

6 years ago
  • Book Reviews

Book Review: Transcendental Style in Film

In 1972, film student and aspiring critic Paul Schrader published his landmark study on spirituality in cinema, Transcendental Style in…

6 years ago
  • Eye Piece

Eye Piece: How Mandy DP Benjamin Loeb Custom-Lit a Quarry, Custom-Fit a Chemistry Lab Set, and Shot a Chainsaw Fight and an Actual Tiger

I knew that jumping into the warped mind of director Panos Cosmatos to make Mandy was going to be an…

6 years ago
  • Things Learned

Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Nicole Holofcener

If one common denominator of Nicole Holofcener’s films is her fumbling protagonists’ neurotic tendencies, her approach to moviemaking is a…

6 years ago
  • Editing

How They Did It: Editing is “Spelunking Into the Soul,” Say Madeline’s Madeline‘s Josephine Decker and Harrison Atkins

By the time indie darling Josephine Decker's Madeline’s Madeline emerged as a top pick of the litter at Sundance 2018’s…

6 years ago
  • Movie News

Indie Law: Learn Why These Three Types of Attorneys Will Give Your Production a Boost, and How To Pick Them

Selecting an attorney, or attorneys, to work with throughout the moviemaking process is one of the most important decisions you’ll make. Likewise, investing in the right attorney…

6 years ago
  • Other

Sydney on the Map: To Land Breakout Roles, Sydney Sweeney Draws Her Own Maps of the Characters She Inhabits

A reverent initiate of a patriarchal regime; a disturbed young psychiatric hospital ward; a sexually questioning teen with a flair…

6 years ago