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Shooting Jaws at 30
Chances are good that if you saw jaws when it premiered in 1975, you avoided swimming—or...
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Todd Solondz Loves You
Todd Solondz does not hate everyone. It’s a common misconception that he does. His movies—the painfully...
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Super 16 Renaissance Keeps Growing
? “The issues/58/images are amazing,” says David Ayer, writer-director of Harsh Times, which he shot in...
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MovieMaker 2005 Top 10 Cities for Moviemakers
an. Love him or hate him, there’s no denying that this tour-de-force moviemaker has re-energized the...
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Hollywood Effects on an Indie Budget
Stephen Wastell stars in Stefan Avalos’ The Ghosts of Edendale, available on Warner Home Video Several...
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Lessons from William Fraker
Many decades into his prolific Hollywood career, William Fraker has become a kind of Yoda of...
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The Making of Blockbuster
Spider-Man Producer Jon Landau tells the story about when he first had an inkling he was...
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Easy Rider: 35 Years Later
Peter Fonda and Laszlo Kovacs Laszlo Kovacs, ASC was born and raised on a farm some...
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Midnight Movie Madness
Brad” and “Janet” act out The Rocky Horror Show in New York For millions of people...
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Funny Business
Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer and Dave Mandel on the set of Eurotrip (2004) Comedy is considered...
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The Super 16 Revolution
The cast and crew of Admissions (2004): Amy Madigan, Melissa Painter and Paul Ryan; and Lauren...
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Lars von Trier: The Natural
Lauren Bacall and Lars von Trier on the set of Dogville (2004) If you were to...
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The Clip’s in the Can
Your movie opens with a panoramic view of Paris, France. A large crowd has gathered on...
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Made in Manhattan
In 1979, Woody Allen collaborated with cinematographer Gordon Willis (The Godfather Trilogy, Annie Hall, All the...
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What Do Producers Want?
=When it comes to evaluating Hollywood’s output, writers too often find themselves shaking their heads and...
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Confessions of a Hack
One afternoon, when I was supposed to be writing but was instead doing my ‘shuffling-aimlessly-from-room-to-room-in-bathrobe-and-slippers’ routine,...
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Marketing Your Screenplay- and Yourself
Writing a script is a labor of love. And while the writing process itself is an...
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Orson Welles: Beacon and Exile
After a screening of unknown works by Orson Welles in March, a man in Hollywood’s Egyptian...
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Chromakeying Can Change Your Life
Dana Lee stars in the title role of Matt Power’s Throg. Are you shooting a scene...
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Indie Counselor
“My best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s...
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The Art of the Poster
Drew Struzan Throughout the 1970s and even into the beginning of the 1980s, one of my...
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The Physics of Moving Pictures
Hubbs, Kovacs, Primes and Fisher at DV Expo West in December of 2003. So, does this...
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Sundance from the Inside
I’ve always considered myself an independent. An independent actor, writer and director. Most importantly, I consider...
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10 Years of MovieMaker; 10 Years of Indie Film
Top to Bottom: The Decade in Review: Halle Berry, with Billy Bob Thornton, proved she’s not...
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