All posts tagged "Detroit"
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13 Days in Freezing Detroit: The Making of Cash Only
If we were smart, we would have attempted to make Cash Only in a few locations with a limited cast. Instead we... -
Poetry in Motion: James Franco and 12 Students Create The Color of Time
It all started in a class James Franco was teaching at NYU’s Graduate Film program. The topic was “How to Direct Poetry.”... -
Crowdfunder Pick: An Honest Thief
Campaigning now on Indiegogo, An Honest Thief, is an indie heist film starring and produced by acting veteran Tom Sizemore, and written by... -
Top 10 Cities to Be a Moviemaker: 2013
Let’s assume for the moment that this June you’re graduating from film school in, say, New York. You know some moviemakers in...
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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
How They Did It: Seamless Stunt Work and Smartly Drawn Shot Lists Fueled The Mountaintop Sequence in Midsommar
In Midsommar—my sophomore feature about a codependent couple whose doomed fate leads them to a nightmarish summer solstice celebration among an ancestral Swedish cult called the...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...