Winter 2017

Winter 2017 Issue

  • Moviemaking

An Artist Archaeologist’s Palette: Ghostly, Decaying Film Stock is Bill Morrison’s Raw Found-Footage Doc Material

As of 2016, the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, which inducts 25 new titles each year “showcasing…

7 years ago
  • Winter 2017

Light My Fire: Free Fire’s DP on How Comprehensive Lighting Let Ben Wheatley’s Shoot-Out Flick Go Full Throttle

Free Fire marks the sixth project I’ve shot with writer-director Ben Wheatley. Our story is set in 1978 Boston, so…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

“This Is Not Our Planet Anymore”: Werner Herzog on Why He Makes Movies From “The Quasi-Perspective of an Alien”

"Did you drink some sort of strange herbal tea this morning?" That question, asked of me by Werner Herzog as…

7 years ago
  • Winter 2017

Shooting for Salvation: The Director of Free in Deed Proves the Meaning of "Errors Done Right" in This Commentary

I spent 10 years planning, writing, researching and visualizing Free in Deed. But the final film that I wrote, directed,…

7 years ago
  • Winter 2017

Chewing on What it Means to be Human: Raw Director Julia Ducournau on Her Cannibalistic Coming of Age Movie

Accidentally seeing The Texas Chain Saw Massacre at the age of six is the perfect origin story for a horror…

7 years ago
  • Winter 2017

Film Preservation 101: A Brief Guide to Keeping Your Films Alive Indefinitely (Part One)

This is the first part of our “Playing for Keeps” series on film and digital preservation. Read the second part,…

7 years ago
  • Winter 2017

Turning the Tide: With Over 60 Million Views, Fisher Stevens’ Before the Flood Warms New Generations to Environmentalism

He was, like the rest of us who count ourselves among the environmental community, still emotionally hung over on the…

7 years ago
  • Things Learned

Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Uwe Boll

A German enfant terrible (or just plain terrible, for many critics) moves to Vancouver in the late ’90s and builds…

7 years ago
  • Winter 2017

Wine Country Rendezvous: The Making of You Can’t Say No, Starring Peter Fonda and Friends

Roman philosopher Seneca famously said that luck is what occurs when the crossroads of preparation and opportunity meet. By that…

7 years ago
  • Cinema Law

Swindler’s List: Seven Tips for Avoiding the Scam in Hollywood

Doyle Lonnegan: Your boss is quite a card player, Mr. Kelly; how does he do it?  Johnny Hooker: He cheats.…

7 years ago