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Things I’ve Learned: Gus Van Sant’s Six Golden Rules of Moviemaking
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Ang Lee is Changing the Rules
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E. Elias Merhige’s Power of Unflinching Belief
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Things I’ve Learned As A MovieMaker
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James Gray Goes the Distance
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Catching Lightning In a Bottle
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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
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The Director who Defies Audience Expectations
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Prolific Aussie Helmer Beresford takes on Bride of The Wind
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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
Things Behind The Sun On Advice for New Moviemakers Watch as many old movies as possible....
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Michael Winterbottom’s The Road to Guantanamo (2006). Get off your butt and make a movie. I...
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The Color of Forbidden Fruit
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
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