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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... -
Full Circle: Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead Cement Their Indie Horror Mastery With UFO Cult Chiller The Endless
Ever relive a moment over and over again until you realize you’re in a UFO-obsessed death cult? I’ve been asking around at... -
Sweet Country, Sour History, Great Moviemaking: Director Warwick Thornton on Sweet Country
“Australia was built on free labour. 180 years of free labour,” says director Warwick Thornton. He is talking, of course, about the... -
Cinema Law: Unions For Dummies
Do you need a union to make your film? You must have asked yourself this before. We’ll answer, but first, a crash... -
So, You Want to Shoot in a War Zone? The Director of Scorched Earth Has Your Survival Guide
I stood on a precipice and surveyed the blackened, bombed-out, bullet-riddled village before me. As I leaned into the breeze (more of a blast... -
Exclusive: Ultrasound Images Spark a Timely Debate in This Clip from Leena Pendharkar’s 20 Weeks (Video)
With 35 weeks in a traditional nine-month pregnancy, there’s a good 245 days (give or take) of down time to rack up... -
Ghost Writing: Arnaud Desplechin on Ismael’s Ghosts‘ Film-Within-a-Film, His Director’s Cut, and His Fear of Rehearsals
French director Arnaud Desplechin’s charmingly self-referential body of work is an ode to the beautiful and often regrettable mishaps of youth, and how they... -
Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious: How to Create Drama from Internal Conflict and Ironic Suspense
To stop a Nazi plot, an American agent pimps the woman he loves to a dangerous Nazi. This is the premise of... -
How to Sell Your First Script Without Really Trying: Telling Chappaquiddick‘s True Story Got My First Movie Made
Chappaquiddick tells the story of a tragedy—the life of a promising young woman that was lost too soon when the car she... -
Outside In: Lynn Shelton and Jay Duplass on Rehearsals, Sex Scenes, What They Learned Working in TV, and More
When I met with Lynn Shelton after the premiere of Outside In at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival, I facetiously asked who...
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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