All posts tagged "Captain Phillips"
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Suspense with a Camera: Jeffrey Michael Bays Talks Building Suspense with Oscar-nominated Editor Saar Klein
“Building suspense is an intuitive process that is hard to verbalize.” – editor Saar Klein When I teach suspense workshops a common topic that comes...
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Global Perspective: Extortion Director Phil Volken Moves From a Local First Film to an International Follow-Up
Peaceful, isolated islands, tranquil seascapes and the slow lull of waves crashing on the beach seem like the ideal setting for relaxation. But when it...
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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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Screenwriting Refresher: 10 Fundamental Things to Remember
You’ve got this clever little screenplay you’ve been working really hard on for some time now. Recently, though, you’ve started to feel like maybe you’ve...
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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...