Articles – Features
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Silent Movies Are Still Creating an Echo
October 2007 marked the 80th anniversary of Alan Crosland’s The Jazz Singer—and the beginning of the end of the silent era. Though Hollywood continued to...
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Julie Delpy Two Days in Paris
Comparisons between 2 Days in Paris, Julie Delpy’s feature film debut as writer-director, and her work on Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise and Before Sunset are...
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The Future of Moviemaking
John Cassavetes and Orson Welles were both individuals who tried to function within the system and learned that they couldn’t. It wasn’t a choice with...
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The Future of Moviemaking
John Cassavetes and Orson Welles were both individuals who tried to function within the system and learned that they couldn’t. It wasn’t a choice with...
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Big Little Indies
Big Little Indies Today’s new wave of “indie studios” are changing the rules of the game by Jerry Weinstein (Cue Don LaFontaine voiceover) In a...
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Tomorrow’s Technologies
Tomorrow’s movie technologies debut at NAB 2007 By Nick Dager In the movie industry as we knew it, production was always production and post was...
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Judgment Day for Movie Theaters
“The unknown future rolls toward us,” says Sarah Connor after narrowly averting a technological Judgment Day in Terminator 2. It’s a scary scenario, and one...
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Tomorrow’s Technologies
Tomorrow’s movie technologies debut at NAB 2007 By Nick Dager In the movie industry as we knew it, production was always production and post was...
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Celebrating An Icon
John Wayne was American movies. His gritty, gruff demeanor and that this-is-a-man-coming-through swagger defined not only the Western for decades (and in many ways still...
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The Universal Language of Film Has a Mexican Accent
The Universal Language of Film Has a Mexican Accent Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki is proving that images speak louder than words with his work in such...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
1Inside the Issue: Directing
Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...