All posts tagged "Goodfellas"
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Flash Forward: Jorge Lendeborg Jr. is Building a Promising Career With Good Instincts and His Family’s Steadfast Support
“I just always loved and enjoyed watching movies,” says Jorge Lendeborg Jr. of how he got bit by the proverbial bug. “My dad would... -
First Draft: 10 Screenplay Structures To Flesh Out Your Formless Story
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Screenplay structure has nothing to do with... -
Hollywood’s Four Classic Narrative Types, Part I: When the Bad Guys Win
Cinematic stories give lessons on human thought and behavior. This is their most basic social purpose. The story places a certain type... -
Light My Fire: Free Fire’s DP on How Comprehensive Lighting Let Ben Wheatley’s Shoot-Out Flick Go Full Throttle
Free Fire marks the sixth project I’ve shot with writer-director Ben Wheatley. Our story is set in 1978 Boston, so we went... -
All-Seeing Eye: God’s Front-Row Seat in the Films of Martin Scorsese (Video)
Many of Martin Scorsese’s characters fancy themselves masters of their own universe. But what makes them so sure? As we’ve learned from... -
How to Start Your Script: A Killer Opening Scene is the Hero Your Screenplay Deserves
In the competitive world of screenwriting (and filmmaking) where industry readers judge your script in the first few pages, openings are a... -
10 Classic Films and What You Can Steal From Them: Courtesy of The Wolfpack
Watching movies is escape: It’s a tired cliché, but one brought hauntingly to life in first-time director Crystal Moselle’s startling documentary, The... -
Things I’ve Learned: Thelma Schoonmaker
This Wisdom Wednesday, legendary editor Thelma Schoonmaker shares the lessons she’s learned from over three decades in the cutting room. If the... -
Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Martin Scorsese
When cinema’s finest, Martin Scorsese, speaks, we listen. That’s MovieMaker‘s unofficial golden rule. So when we had the opportunity to record the... -
Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Thelma Schoonmaker
Academy Award-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker’s long, presitgious career is one of Hollywood’s most enduring, rivaled possibly by her longtime collaborator, Martin Scorcese....
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Flash Forward: Grace Van Patten Takes a Leap into the Unknown in David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
Many actors will tell you that when you read a great script, you just know. But for Grace Van Patten, it was actually not knowing that...1Inside the Issue: Directing
Success in Succession: Matteo Garrone Shot Dogman Entirely in Sequence to Put Viewers in His Character’s Shoes
I wrote the script for my new film, Dogman, 12 years ago, and during those years I changed it many times, arriving at six or seven...Inside the Issue: How To
Journalism Plus: How Hail Satan?, The Brink, and Leaving Neverland Blend Truth-Seeking With Cinematic Storytelling
“Journalism Plus” is how Academy Award-winning moviemaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) characterizes making documentaries. If you’re a documentarian, you may not have a degree or credentials in...8