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Fake Independence and Reel Truth, Pt. 4: Approaching a film set with an open mind

Read Part 1 Read Part 2 Read Part 3 My favorite metaphor for thinking about artists is as students and…

11 years ago
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Fake Independence and Reel Truth, Pt. 3: Plastic emotions and lite art by Ray Carney

Read Part 1 Read Part 2 Read Part 4 Surely I’m not the only person in America weary of stylistic…

11 years ago
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Interiors Journal: Haneke’s Amour by Interiors Journal

Every month, Interiors Journal dissects the floorplan of a film set to investigate the relationship between space and action. This…

11 years ago
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Fake Independence and Reel Truth, Pt. 2: A look back at the criticism of Ray Carney

Read Part 1 We want our knowledge easy. We want experiences that will snap like Legos into place with what…

11 years ago
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Fake Independence and Reel Truth, Pt. 1: Ray Carney’s incendiary film criticism feels as vital today as it did 15 years ago

As Filmmaker Magazine reported in its latest issue, the seminal expert on John Cassavetes' oeuvre, Ray Carney, has refused to…

11 years ago
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Rotterdam 2013: Hivos Tiger Award-winner Daniel Hoesl discusses Soldate Jeannette by James Kaelan

The 2013 International Film Festival Rotterdam, as always, awarded some of the most progressive young filmmakers in the world with…

11 years ago
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Top 10: MovieMaker’s second, and perhaps even more pretentious, “Best Films of 2012” list

This is my first year with MovieMaker. Accordingly, when I sat down to mull over my 2012 Top 10 films list,…

11 years ago
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Top 10: MovieMaker’s Top 10 films of 2012 (list 1 of 2)

So, I figured out that I have seen 37 movies this year that I liked enough to consider putting them…

11 years ago
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ALL THE EMPEROR’S MEN: Akira Kurosawa’s Pearl Harbor

"The whole truth will be out someday, somehow," Akira Kurosawa said with resignation late in his life. The master Japanese…

11 years ago
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Cheerful Weather for a Film: A rookie director’s advice on shooting a first feature

I’ve been to a few Q & A sessions recently, and I now feel pretty familiar with what might get…

11 years ago