All posts tagged "directing"
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Zama: Director Lucrecia Martel Discusses Her Long-Awaited New Film
Continuing to explore her interest in lost souls, found elsewhere in her films The Holy Girl (2004) and The Headless Woman (2008), Lurcecia Martel’s... -
How They Did It: Recording Live Musical Performances Added Sonic Realism to The House of Tomorrow
My first feature film The House of Tomorrow was shot in a small town in Minnesota called North Branch, as well as... -
How They Did It: Breaking Down the First Film to Cover Pioneering Feminist Intellectual Lou Andreas-Salomé
For years I have been fascinated by people with fractured and contradictory biographies, so-called enfants terribles. Writer, philosopher, and psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé... -
How They Did It: 24 Set-Ups + 12 Hours A Day x Three Days = A 22-Minute Short, “Kill the Light”
Shooting a short takes longer than you’d think. That is, unless, you utilize the wonderful world of preproduction to its utmost potential.... -
Storytelling in Action: Four Tips For Crafting the Perfect Action Sequence From The Commuter‘s Jaume Collet-Serra
Jaume Collet-Serra is a Barcelona-born director whose films increasingly testify to a deft eye for action, ever since his 2005 debut with... -
Art of Darkness: Hostiles‘ Scott Cooper on Genre, Race, and the American Soul
“Life is nasty and brutish and short.” “Thomas Hobbes said that,” he explains. It’s the perfect bookend to our conversation with Scott... -
Foreign Contenders: Andrey Zvyagintsev Breaks Down the Technical Aspects of Shooting Russia’s Melancholic Loveless
Not far removed from the philosophical and ethical inquiries that 19th century literary masters like Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Dostoyevsky debated in their... -
How They Did It: Filming at Religious Sites Is Even More Challenging Than You Think, Says Holy Air Director
Themes that inspire Middle Eastern film also emerge in the making of it. To understand the filming of religious sites and locations... -
How They Did It: Shooting Mr. Roosevelt in 16MM Was Masochistic, But Paid Off, Says Its First-Time Director
When I turned in the feature script I had written and planned to star and direct, I think a few people had concerns... -
Colorful Verses: Ann Marie Fleming and Sandra Oh on Highlighting Iranian Poetry in Window Horses
Intrinsically shaped by multiculturalism, Canadian director Ann Marie Fleming has amassed a body of work grounded in her curiosity to learn about...
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Inside the Issue: Distribution
Your Key to Distribution Success: Get Keyed in to Key Art, and You’re On Your Way to an Instantly Iconic Movie
Think about some of the most famous posters ever produced: Jaws, Scarface, Taxi Driver, The Shining, Ghostbusters, E.T., The Godfather. What do they have in common? To...2Inside the Issue: Festivals
deadCenter Film Festival 2017: Oklahoma City Is the Biggest Star Of This Consistently Great Event
Film festivals are as good as their programmers and audiences, and the deadCenter film festival has an abundance of excellence in both. From the very first...Inside the Issue: Producing
What Investors Want to Hear: Here Are the Things You Need to Be Telling Potential Financiers In Your Pitch
There are as many different ways to get funding as there are movies made, but the one thing all of those stories have in common is...6