All posts tagged "Don’t Miss"
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Acting
Mads Mikkelsen: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
March 23, 2020From Death Stranding to Star Wars to Marvel, from prestige TV (Hannibal) to high-profile Oscar contenders (At Eternity’s Gate),...
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First Draft
10 Screenplay Structures To Flesh Out Your Formless Story
March 22, 2020Since we’re all spending more time indoors lately, its prime time to write that screenplay you’ve...
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Directing
Ari Aster on Building the Hereditary Haunted Houses From Scratch
March 16, 2020Ari Aster, director of the acclaimed Midsommar and Hereditary, talks in this essay about one of...
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Directing
Zhuhai Caper: The Long Gone Wild Team Almost Landed in a Chinese Gulag While Filming Undercover
August 5, 2019You may remember Ric O’Barry from the Oscar-winning documentary, The Cove, in which he and a...
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Best Of
Hollywood Ending: Quentin Tarantino on Making Movies, Finding Love, and Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood
July 26, 2019The first time Quentin Tarantino and I connect, he offers me an apology. “I’m not trying...
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Moviemaking
Breaking and Entering, Part Two: A Map To Finding Feature Funding
June 14, 2019If you didn’t read part one of this article, stop now and go back to the...
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Directing
A Talk on the Wilde Side: Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart, Her New Home Behind the Camera, and Her Plans to Save the World
May 29, 2019A young mother whose eight-year-old son was abducted a year earlier awakens in the middle of the...
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Movie News
Caution Moviemakers: Directing Movies with Sensitive Subject Matter
May 9, 2019An interesting trend has taken hold in movies over the past 25 years: Films have gotten...
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Directing
High Life Director Claire Denis Discusses Black Holes, Bringing an Astrophysicist On Set, and the Death Penalty
May 1, 2019On the surface, many entries in Claire Denis’ filmography appear relatively easy to synopsize (her latest...
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Inside MM - How To
Journalism Plus: How Hail Satan?, The Brink, and Leaving Neverland Blend Truth-Seeking With Cinematic Storytelling
April 23, 2019“Journalism Plus” is how Academy Award-winning moviemaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) characterizes making documentaries. If you’re a...
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Directing
Success in Succession: Matteo Garrone Shot Dogman Entirely in Sequence to Put Viewers in His Character’s Shoes
April 22, 2019I wrote the script for my new film, Dogman, 12 years ago, and during those years...
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Cinematography
What’s In Your Kit? Flea Market Finds and Stolen Headwear in Wild Nights with Emily DP Anna Stypko’s Offbeat Inventory
April 18, 2019I shot Wild Nights with Emily (writer-director Madeleine Olnek’s comedic biopic about the writings and romantic...
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Inside MM - Screenwriting
Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Bret Easton Ellis
April 18, 2019In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis’ debut novel, Less than Zero, was published, introducing the 21-year-old author...
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MM Guide 2019
Coloring Outside the Lines: DP Benoît Debie Shakes it Up with Gaspar Noé, Harmony Korine, and Jacques Audiard
February 27, 2019As a cinematographer the first thing you need to do is understand exactly what your director...
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Winter 2019
Shooting on Film in the Digital Age: What You Need to Know If You’re Still Taking Stock in Film Stock
February 21, 2019When director Yen Tan and I first started talking about his new feature, 1985, we knew immediately that we wanted...
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Cinema Law
Indie Law: How to Secure and Hold the Rights to Your Project
February 14, 2019In the documentary on legendary producer Robert Evans, The Kid Stays in the Picture, Evans explains early and often that...
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Cinematography
Eye Piece: Spherical Lenses and Calculated Color Choices Allowed the Visuals of Birds of Passage to Take Flight
February 14, 2019Depicting the ancestral culture of the Wayuu—a Native American group indigenous to northern Colombia—and shedding light on their complex relationship with death and...
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Directing
Direct From Video: How Directing Music Videos Can Make You a Better Feature Moviemaker
February 6, 2019When I was playing drums in the Swedish black metal band Bathory in the early 1980s, it took me...
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Directing
How They Did It: Asghar Farhadi Lived in the Country of His Spanish-Speaking Stars to Write and Direct Everybody Knows
February 6, 2019Before I went to Spain to make my new film Everybody Knows—a thriller which follows the tumultuous events that ensue when...
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Other
Color Commentary: A Seasoned Colorist Breaks Down the Process, and How It Will Enhance Your Movie
February 4, 2019Your colorist is the most elusive-yet integral member of your post-production team. Whether you’re aware of it or not, color’s unique essence directly...
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Inside MM - How To
Breaking and Entering, Part One: How To Shoot Down Self-Doubt and Pay the Rent While Making It In the Film Industry
January 31, 2019Becoming a moviemaker seemed like an impossibly ambitious goal when I was growing up. I was living...
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Moviemaking
The Story of Ingrid: What It’s Like to Make a Documentary on a $15K Budget
January 25, 2019I met Morrisa Maltz during SXSW in 2016 when she came to a panel on micro-budget...
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Inside MM - How To
Inside the Creative Process: Karyn Kusama Walks Through Five Phases of Production, From Screenwriting to Distribution
January 10, 2019Guest Moviemaker Karyn Kusama has been through a lot in her career. Kusama broke out in...
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Interviews
Simply Good: Alice Rohrwacher on Casting Off YouTube and Having a Wolf on Set for Happy as Lazzaro
January 10, 2019Divided into two distinctively wondrous halves—one pastoral/one urban—modern parable Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro felice) is a...
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