All posts tagged "brokeback mountain"
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The Adept Adapter: A Primer on Adaptation (i.e. Hacking Someone’s Great Idea and Making it Your Own)
Maybe it’s a childhood favorite you’ve always dreamed of seeing on a big screen, or a recommendation from your mother who read... -
First Draft: Five Reasons Short Stories are Easier to Adapt Than Novels
In partnership with the blog ScreenCraft, we’re publishing “First Draft,” a fortnightly series on everything to do with screenwriting. New articles, written... -
Kustendorf 2013: A dispatch from the mountains of Serbia
The Kustendorf Film and Music festival—which runs concurrently with another snowy, high-altitude American film festival—opened Wednesday, January 16th on a soggy night... -
Classic Movie Title Sequences
Hollow Man (2000) Director: Paul Verhoeven Title design company: Picture Mill The sequence: Three-dimensional floating letters continuously reassemble themselves to form credits.... -
Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker: Ang Lee
An ever-evolving director with international reach, Ang Lee laughs at the label of “auteur.” But his impact on world cinema is undeniable....
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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...Inside the Issue: Directing
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...Inside the Issue: How To
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...