Joseph Marcantonio is the director of Kindred, a psychological horror thriller. In this feature, he goes over how he carefully…
I watched 1917, the Sam Mendes' World War I epic that appears to unfold in one long, single-shot, in a…
Before we discuss how to develop story beats in a screenplay, let's start with a cold realization: On the surface, directing…
Everyone who knows me well knows that since I was very young—five, six years old—I kept saying, “I want to…
Caroline Young is the Scottish author of several books on film and fashion, most recently Hitchcock’s Heroines, a big, beautiful…
To stop a Nazi plot, an American agent pimps the woman he loves to a dangerous Nazi. This is the…
As one of the founding fathers of the French New Wave, Francois Truffaut used cinema to capture “truth 24 times…
“Building suspense is an intuitive process that is hard to verbalize.” – editor Saar Klein When I teach suspense workshops…
A Violent Man is a throwback to classic film noir, influenced by Hitchcock’s Frenzy and Nicolas Ray’s In A Lonely…
When it comes to the question of where or how you should start your moviemaking career, there's no right or…
"The interplay between Tippi Hedren and Suzanne Pleshette in The Birds tells me more about women than any number of…
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft" is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. I had an interesting experience…
On May 8, 1920, Hollywood's most influential graphic designer, Saul Bass, was born. Over the course of four decades, Bass…
Few cities have had such a dramatic and tumultuous history as Berlin since the turn of the 20th century—the period…
Just in time for Halloween 2016—MovieMaker Magazine releases its first-ever annual Guide to Making Horror Movies eBook edition. First published…
Think of essential American cinema, and Peter Bogdanovich comes immediately to mind. Of a certain breed of moviemaker, he’s one…
WTC View, my feature film about life in New York after 9/11, started out as a play back in 2003.…
This week's Thing's I've Learned, appearing in our upcoming 2014 Complete Guide to Making Movies special issue (on stands very…