All posts tagged "Chicago"
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The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2019: Big Cities
What are the best places to live and work as a moviemaker? It depends on what you want. But one prominent director says many cities...
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The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2018: Big Cities
You can’t choose your family, but you can choose where to find your film family. They’re the PAs you’ll be spending those long, languid afternoons...
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How They Did It: Tips on Recreating Period, VFX, and Big Action on a Low Budget From the Director of Gangster Land
“A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movie that you didn’t intend to be there.” This quote by Spike Lee perfectly...
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The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2017
As an independent moviemaker, your life tends to be a mobile one. You’re forever in search of the perfect landscapes, networks, resources and people to...
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Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2016: Top 10 Big Cities
Think global but shoot local. Here’s where you’ll love doing that. Used to be if you wanted to work in the movies there were only a...
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Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2015: Top 10 Big Cities
All this week, we’re releasing the 2015 edition of our annual Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker list, in three parts: the...
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Best Places, 2014: Top Big Cities: #1 Chicago
It’s MovieMaker’s 2014 edition of the Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker! We’re counting down through our Top 10 Big Cities, Top 5...
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Revisiting Stony Island
The development of Stony Island began long before there was a script, from spending time with and shooting images of my brother Richie and his...
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Things I’ve Learned as an Editor: Advice From Thelma Schoonmaker, Mary Sweeney and More
In celebration of our 11th year and the role that the Hands-on Pages newsletter has played in our success—throughout 2004, per reader request, we will...
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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...