All posts tagged "Breaking Bad"
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El Camino: 3 Breaking Bad Mysteries It Solves, and 3 Questions It Leaves Hanging
(Spoiler warning: This contains El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie spoilers. Don’t read on if you haven’t seen it. There are also six-year-old spoilers about...
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El Camino: Why The Setting of That Opening Scene Looks So Familiar
( Spoiler warning: Don’t read this if you haven’t seen El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie and don’t want any details, including on its opening...
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Quentin Tarantino: “Casting Robert Forster in Jackie Brown Was One of the Best Choices I’ve Ever Made”
Quentin Tarantino, who directed Robert Forster in the actor’s gorgeous comeback film, Jackie Brown, said in a statement Saturday that casting Forster was “one of...
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El Camino: Why Vince Gilligan Stays Focused on the Corner of Holly and Arroz
Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan makes the interesting decision to let his camera linger, 25 minutes into his new film El Camino, on street signs...
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Pictures Worth a Thousand Jobs: Netflix’s Blockbuster Deal with ABQ Studios is Poised to Bring Thousands of Jobs to New Mexico
In a year where Netflix has continued to grow at an astounding rate, the streaming platform’s biggest leap was its deal to open a U.S....
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New Hampshire Film Festival 2017: Eclectic Selections and Panels Allow This Small New England Fest to Continue to Grow
Running from October 12-15, 2017, the New Hampshire Film Festival delivered an eclectic collection of films in a quintessential New England setting. Think crisp October...
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Need For Speed: Don’t Write Off Using Differing Shutter Speeds In Your Project (Video)
A comprehensive filmmaker’s toolkit is grown slowly over time: picking up technical knowledge here and there until one is equipped to really play around with...
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First Draft: Tap Into Rhythm, Rhetoric and Other Dynamics of Dialogue
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Good dialogue strikes a nerve, usually in my spine. I’ll sit...
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First Draft: Give Your Characters Well-Defined Paths and Choices and Your Audience Can Believe Anything
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Ripples I recently read a student’s one-hour television pilot, and...
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Story-Breaking Secrets from the Writer of Air Bud: The Fundamental Questions to Ask About Your Screenplay
We can all agree that a great screenplay is the foundation of a great film. And I don’t think it’s controversial to say a great...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
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How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...