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Impressions of Depression: Watch How Lars Von Trier Manipulates Cinematic Time to Convey Mental Illness (Video)
Slow motion: For people with clinical depression, it’s the human brain’s own in-built special effect. A...
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Of Eastern Winds and Windfalls: What Do You Need to Know About Shooting in China?
China: It’s the new frontier of moviemaking. 2017 is the year the Chinese box office is...
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Casting From Your Couch? Mobile Casting App UpCast Aims to Cut Your Time Spent Finding Actors
As mobile technology shakes up everything from dating to banking, Drew Doyon, founder and CEO of...
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The Bellflower Bellows: A Simple Guide to Personalizing Your Lens for Gorgeously Unique Visuals
Tom Waits has a song, “What’s He Building in There?” about a man wondering what goes...
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A Tale of Truth and Darkness: An Appreciation of Andrzej Wajda’s Kanał
On April 20, the late Andrzej Wajda’s Kanał, a landmark of Polish cinema and a universally...
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Crowd-Teasers: Larger-Than-Life Ambitions in the Trailer for Tupac Biopic All Eyez On Me
You’d be hard-pressed to find 140 consecutive seconds of video under more pressure than these, in...
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Mixed Media: How Documentary God Knows Where I Am Used 35mm, 16mm, Super-16 and Digital For Its Haunting Story
When Linda Bishop’s body was found in an empty farmhouse in New Hampshire, her death seemed...
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Turning Censorship Into Symbolism: How State Censorship Defined and Strengthened Post-War Polish Cinema
Under censorship’s nefarious grip, cinema becomes not just a driver of social justice but a sophisticated...
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Creative Culture Class of ’17: Meet the Seven Young Moviemakers in the Jacob Burns Film Center’s New Program
The Jacob Burns Film Center, nestled in the Hudson Valley, is a nonprofit cultural arts center...
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A Rising Tide: San Diego Makes a Pitch to Be California’s Next Big Filmmaking Destination
Think “San Diego” and the first thing that comes to mind is glorious weather, white-sand beaches...
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How Stop-Motion Can Survive: The Past, Present and Future of a Suffering Art (Video)
From The Boxtrolls, to Anomalisa, to Kubo and the Two Strings, stop-motion animation has consecutively held its place...
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Looking for the Silver Lining: Ferne Pearlstein’s The Last Laugh Takes Audiences on a Novel Journey to a Dark Time
In his memorable book The Life of Reason, philosopher George Santayana wrote, “Those who don’t remember...
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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....
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The Cat Documentary Taking NYC By Storm: Ceyda Torun and Charlie Wuppermann on Their Gorgeous Film KEDi
“People who don’t love animals don’t love people either.” So says a fishmonger in Istanbul in...
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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...
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How to Do the Hustle: Use Craigslist, IMDbPro and Other Job Boards to Jumpstart Your Film Career
The daunting task of moving to a new city alone and attempting to break into the...
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A Friendly Ear: Audio Network Adds a Human Touch to Music Licensing
Audio Network is working hard to be your music licensing guide. Launched in 2001 as an...
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Crowd-Teasers: Donald Cried Trailer Features Scant Crying, Lots of Uncomfortable Smiling
In sharp contrast with the film’s title, the trailer for Kris Avedisian’s Donald Cried features a...
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Gimme Shelter: Seven Movies About Immigration
In the light of Donald Trump’s recent executive order temporarily banning travel from seven Muslim-majority countries...
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A Duel in a Different Form: Tips for Choreographing and Executing a Car Chase From the Director of The Chase
In the action world, one of the least expensive things to do, though not necessarily the...
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Why Vérité Moviemaking is the Holy Grail of Documentary: An Essay by the Directors of The Bad Kids
Principal Vonda Viland runs Black Rock Continuation High School in the Mojave Desert, a school for...
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Foreign Contenders: Ukrainian Sheriffs is a Buddy Cop Doc Set Against the Annexation of Crimea
MovieMaker‘s weekly series “Foreign Contenders” features interviews with the heavyweight helmers behind their respective countries’ entries for...
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Evocations from The English Patient: An Anniversary Poem
Twenty years ago, writer-director Anthony Minghella’s adaptation of Michael Ondaatje’s novel The English Patient was released to a firestorm...
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Meeting Expectations: How to Take a Meeting Like an Old Hollywood Pro, Even as a First-Time Filmmaker
Whenever you meet with anyone in Hollywood, you are pitching. This is true even in a...
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