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Ray Carney Hacks Up Hollywood
Ray Carney A cinematic Ralph Nader, Noam Chomsky, and Marshall McLuhan rolled into one, Ray Carney...
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Shame, Fame and the Publicity Game
Clint Howard in Ice Cream Man due for release in March. Publicists, along with distributors, are...
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Of Guerillas and Weasel
Above all else, in order to make a no-budget feature film you must be insane. Anyone...
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From Austin to Austria: Richard Linklater Pulls An All-Nighter On Before Sunrise
Richard Linklater came to film relatively late in life. He didn’t start watching movies seriously until...
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Robert Benton’s Film Landscapes
Sophistication saturates Robert Benton movies. From his first screenplay, the legendary Bonnie and Clyde (1967), which...
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The Vision of Alan Rudolph
“At first I didn’t know people could say those things about you,” Alan Rudolph intimates with...
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Review: Ed Wood Have Been Proud
Tim Burton, who gave the horror genre a “Leave it to Beaver” twist with Frankenweenie, made...
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Confessions of the Adrenaline Junkies
We’ve seen them for years in every action film or television episode ever aired, but most...
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What Do Distributors Want From Us, Anyway?
Ed. note: In our June issue we interviewed several independent moviemakers about their experiences with distributors....
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Wild Hill
Monitoring your incoming audio/video datastream during shoots can be accomplished in the usual ways; the old...
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Is Film School Worth It?
The rush to film school continues unabated, and considering the film industry’s growth and bright prospects...
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Decline of the Western
When Lawrence Kasdan’s Wyatt Earp opened at theaters across the country earlier this summer, it had...
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Out of the Shadows
In Hollywood, where everyone’s, writing a screenplay, your odds of selling a script are about as...
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Back on the Mainscreen
The feature film format has not always been as dominant a factor in the motion picture...
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First Lady of Horror
It may have been Norma Shearer who was credited with "discovering" her when she signed with...
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Shaking It Up On The Internet
You have vision, a story. You have mood, and a philosophy. How do you coerce these...
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BackBeat Cheat Sheet
While everyone is familiar with the story of The Beatles’s meteoric rise from working class obscurity...
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Regarding Henry
Heny Jaglom, writer and director of such idiosyncratic films as Always, But Not Forever, Eating, Venice/Venice...
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Is Seattle Asleep at the Reel?
"I said I liked it, I didn’t say I wanted to kiss it.”—Gloria Grahame to Humphrey...
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Roman Keeps on Rolling
I was fifteen the year Roman Polanski’s Chinatown came to the screen. My grandmother had been...
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Peter Coyote is Not P.C.
"Eternity for me began one fall day in Paris…" So speaks Peter Coyote’s latest character, Oscar,...
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Grant’s a Hugh Success
Easier? Why? Grant slips into a "DeNiro-esque” street twang for this answer. "Well, you know Americans...
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Cut to: The Quick
"I just disagree with the whole student-teacher apparatus," he states plainly. "Basically, if the teachers are...
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