All posts tagged "Goodfellas"
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Screenwriting
How to Start Your Script With a Killer Opening Scene
August 2, 2020A great opening scene is vital to a successful screenplay and film, especially in the competitive world...
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Movie News
Is The Irishman’s Opening Scene a Goodfellas Callback?
March 23, 2020The Irishman opens with a scene that feels like a darkly comic twist on the most...
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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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Movie News
Goodfellas: How That Very Long Tracking Shot Went Comically Wrong
March 22, 2020The three-minute Goodfellas tracking shot that takes us into the Copacabana nightclub and proves Henry Hill’s...
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Movie News
How Goodfellas’ Tracking Shot Went Comically Wrong
November 26, 2019The Goodfellas tracking shot that takes us into the Copacabana nightclub and shows us what a...
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Acting
Flash Forward: Jorge Lendeborg Jr. is Building a Promising Career With Good Instincts and His Family’s Steadfast Support
February 14, 2019“I just always loved and enjoyed watching movies,” says Jorge Lendeborg Jr. of how he got bit...
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Screenwriting
Hollywood’s Four Classic Narrative Types, Part I: When the Bad Guys Win
September 7, 2017Cinematic stories give lessons on human thought and behavior. This is their most basic social purpose....
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Cinematography
Light My Fire: Free Fire’s DP on How Comprehensive Lighting Let Ben Wheatley’s Shoot-Out Flick Go Full Throttle
April 18, 2017Free Fire marks the sixth project I’ve shot with writer-director Ben Wheatley. Our story is set...
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Movie News
All-Seeing Eye: God’s Front-Row Seat in the Films of Martin Scorsese (Video)
January 7, 2017Many of Martin Scorsese’s characters fancy themselves masters of their own universe. But what makes them...
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Directing
10 Classic Films and What You Can Steal From Them: Courtesy of The Wolfpack
June 25, 2015Watching movies is escape: It’s a tired cliché, but one brought hauntingly to life in first-time...
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Things Learned
Things I’ve Learned: Thelma Schoonmaker
March 26, 2014This Wisdom Wednesday, legendary editor Thelma Schoonmaker shares the lessons she’s learned from over three decades...
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Things Learned
Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Martin Scorsese
November 29, 2007When cinema’s finest, Martin Scorsese, speaks, we listen. That’s MovieMaker‘s unofficial golden rule. So when we...
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Articles - Editing
Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Thelma Schoonmaker
February 3, 2007Academy Award-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker’s long, presitgious career is one of Hollywood’s most enduring, rivaled possibly...
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Movie News
Comfortable State of Anxiety: An Interview with Martin Scorsese
October 4, 2002A ramble with America’s Greatest Living Director about his long career and his new “eastern western,”...
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