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Articles - Directing
Let Fury Have the Hour: A Lesson in Making Fire and Creative Response
Twenty-five hundred days. The number feels heavy, eternal. If I divide it into years—seven—it becomes...
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Screenwriting
Adapting Indie Fiction: A Resource for Finding Your Next Story
You’ve been working on your first script for a year and a half. Maybe you got...
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Distribution
Is Self-Distribution a Viable Route for Your Indie? MovieMaker Investigates
There’s been a lot of talk in the pages of MM recently about the ever-increasing opportunities...
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Cinema Law
Cinema Law: Can I Film U.S. Currency?
Welcome to Cinema Law, where you ask the questions of our resident team of legal experts...
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Blog - Directing on a Dime
Directing on a Dime: The Great Film School Question
Welcome to Directing on a Dime, where indie moviemaker Andy Young provides tips and insight for...
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Articles - Directing
Dern on Lynch
On the meaning of Inland Empire: We know [Lynch] is a non-conformist and we know he...
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Articles - Directing
Things I’ve Learned: Gus Van Sant’s Six Golden Rules of Moviemaking
Gus Van Sant is one of America’s most heralded, iconic independent auteurs. Based in Portland, Oregon,...
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Articles - Directing
David Lynch’s Empire
The only predictable thing about David Lynch is that he is always looking to surprise us....
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Articles - Directing
Ang Lee: Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
On Auterism What does auteur mean? One who repeats himself? On Subverting Genres Whenever I do...
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Articles - Auteur
Ed Harris’ Artist’s Sensibility
Ed Harris Since the late 1970s, Ed Harris has made more than 50 television and film...
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Articles - Directing
Ang Lee is Changing the Rules
Courtesy of the Teegarden/Nash collection Having enchanted us for a decade with a string of lyrical,...
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Articles - Auteur
Michael Berenbaum: Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
Berenbaum worked with Al Pacino on Chinese Coffee. Trust yourself. A lot of times I’ve worked...
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Articles - Directing
E. Elias Merhige’s Power of Unflinching Belief
E. Elias Merhige on the set of Shadow of the Vampire. Though his latest film, Shadow...
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Articles - Directing
Things I’ve Learned As A MovieMaker
Sandra Oh, Sheila Kelley and Daryl Hannah in Dancing at the Blue Iguana. On Making Movies...
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Articles - Screenwriting
Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
Keep it simple. Encourage the actors after every take. Acting is like jumping without a parachute—it’s...
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Articles - Cinematography
Shooting Action
Finnish director Renny Harlin has been actively making big-budget, action films in the U.S. since the...
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Articles - Screenwriting
Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
What I have learned from my filmmaking experience is to trust my instincts. This dates back...
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Articles - Directing
Mythology and Moviemaking
Like the tropical nightmares of Joseph Conrad, the films of John Boorman lead us down rivers-real...
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Articles - Cinematography
Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
Red Planet Shooting the Script You learn to stay true to the page. No matter how...
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Articles - Directing
James Gray Goes the Distance
Director James Gray with Victor Arnold on the set of The Yards. 31-year-old director James Gray...
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