What do you do when your career no longer fulfills you? Jim Hemphill, an award-winning screenwriter and director, faced that…
Though it’s taken for granted that television has a big seat at the table in the modern entertainment world, journalist…
In Gustavo Mercado’s newest book, The Filmmaker’s Eye: The Language of the Lens, the award-winning independent moviemaker turned professor explores…
Taking as its jumping-off point the by now familiar topic of digital moviemaking’s ubiquitousness and accessibility, action director Lawrence Ribeiro’s…
Between the Time’s Up movement, demands for wage equality and historic firsts for female moviemakers, Hollywood is undergoing a sexual…
Diane Bell’s feature debut Obselidia won two awards at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, and those accolades are made more…
In the early 1980s, a film school dropout and his brother, then a philosophy student working as a typist at…
In this exploration of Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki’s filmography, professor Susan Napier paints a fascinating portrait of the world this…
Much has been written about Steven Spielberg. He is, after all, the highest-grossing director of all time, and has managed…
Karina Longworth is best known as the creator, producer, and host of popular Hollywood history podcast You Must Remember This,…
New from Errol Morris, The Ashtray (Or the Man Who Denied Reality) is the legendary writer-director’s first book since 2012’s…
Destined to sit on the dusty bedside tables of young film students and seasoned fanatics alike, Michael Benson’s Space Odyssey:…
“How do you make it in this brutal fucking business?” This is the question that indie moviemaking mainstays Mark and…
“Building suspense is an intuitive process that is hard to verbalize.” – editor Saar Klein When I teach suspense workshops…
“You have to know the rules in order to break them.” This oft-repeated cliché might be considered irksome if not…
A farmer—his name is Logandurai—sings in a grape orchard in Tamil Nadu, a state in southern India, far away from…
“It’s an Oliver Stone movie about Oliver Stone, but in the form of a book.” That’s the pitch author Matt…
Truly comprehensive books on directing are difficult to find, for one obvious reason: Those with the practical knowledge to write…
Bursting with glossy stills and archival material, film historian and photographer Mark A. Vieira’s Into The Dark: The Hidden World…
Preparing for Takeoff is a one-stop master class on pre-production by seasoned moviemaker Arthur Vincie—300 pages of no-nonsense practical advice…
Taxi Driver was an unlikely hit in 1976. At a time when audiences were lining up for traditional genre entertainments—Rocky…