All posts tagged "Bret Easton Ellis"
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Caution Moviemakers: Directing Movies with Sensitive Subject Matter
An interesting trend has taken hold in movies over the past 25 years: Films have gotten more politically correct. There was an evolution from the...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Bret Easton Ellis
In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis’ debut novel, Less than Zero, was published, introducing the 21-year-old author as a cataloguer of the zeitgeist, tapping into the...
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First Draft: Allow Your Characters to Introduce Themselves With These Seven Ways to Reveal Their Names
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. The go-to screenwriting topics of discussion for any given day...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Paul Schrader
Paul Schrader is learning a lot these days. Simultaneously excited about the future of moviemaking and pessimistic about its finances, he recognizes that while it...
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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...