All posts tagged "Netflix"
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Movie News
The Platform Is the Ultimate COVID-19 Movie… Or Is It? (Podcast)
April 21, 2020Netflix’s The Platform has earned praise as the perfect film for the age of hoarding. But...
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Movie News
How Dolemite Is My Name Writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski Went From Roommates to Masters of the Biopic (Podcast)
March 30, 2020Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski were USC film students, waiting in line, when they struck up...
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Interviews
How Sword of Trust Writer-Director Lynn Shelton and Marc Maron Gained Each Other’s Trust
March 23, 2020Unbeknownst to the rest of the world, Lynn Shelton and Marc Maron were ready to make...
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Movie News
Horse Girl: Alison Brie Drew on Her Family History for Transfixing Sundance Film
February 7, 2020(Horse Girl, the new film Alison Brie and Jeff Baena co-wrote and Baena directed, may be...
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Directing
How They Did It: Learning a New Culture and Creating Painterly Visuals to Make Despite Everything
June 11, 2019The biggest challenge of working on my seventh feature film as a director was to do...
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Directing
Stefon Bristol’s See You Yesterday Melds Time Travel and the Harsh Realities of African-American Life Seamlessly
June 4, 2019Stefon Bristol’s See You Yesterday is full of surprises. Produced by Spike Lee, Bristol’s film takes...
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MM Guide 2019
Pictures Worth a Thousand Jobs: Netflix’s Blockbuster Deal with ABQ Studios is Poised to Bring Thousands of Jobs to New Mexico
March 14, 2019In a year where Netflix has continued to grow at an astounding rate, the streaming platform’s...
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Annual Lists
The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2019: Small Cities and Towns
January 17, 2019“The film business as we know it is never going back to Los Angeles,” director Joe...
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MM Guide 2019
Working the Crowd: How Indie Crowdfunding Campaigns Have Evolved, and Some Savvy Ways to Keep Up
December 20, 2018Why this film? Why you? Why now? Each arm of your crowdfunding campaign—from video, to narrative,...
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Distribution
A Sale Unto Oneself: About To Have Your First Market Experience? Here’s Why Self-Distribution Is the Way To Go
December 13, 2018Every indie moviemaker has the fantasy of premiering a movie at Sundance, then selling it for...
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Festivals
Novel Ideas: Moviemakers Jeremy Saulnier and Macon Blair on Adapting a Book for the Screen and Building Atmosphere
October 29, 2018In September, director Jeremy Saulnier and screenwriter Macon Blair attended Fantastic Fest 2018 to present Hold...
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Interviews
Singapore Plays Itself: In Sandi Tan’s Shirkers, a Nation (and its Daughter) Come of Age Onscreen
October 27, 2018Beautiful Convergence When it opened in 1930, Singapore’s Capitol Theatre was a glittering picture palace, the...
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Interviews
Surrounded By Wolves: Jeremy Saulnier Teamed up with Netflix to Adapt His Latest Atmospheric Thriller Hold the Dark
October 9, 2018Since Jeremy Saulnier’s second feature, the slow-burn revenge tale Blue Ruin premiered to rave reviews at the...
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Other
Swimming With the Stream: Entertainment Lawyer Lisa Callif on Creating Content in the Digital Era
August 10, 2018Content creators in the digital era have it pretty good. You can create content on a...
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Directing
Love Strong: Jordana Spiro on the Young Cast of Night Comes On and the “Luxury of Vulnerability”
August 9, 2018A brooding atmosphere envelops every frame of Night Comes On, the debut feature by actor-turned-director Jordana...
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Moviemaking
Merchants of Empathy: Carlos López Estrada, Rafael Casal, and Daveed Diggs’ Blindspotting Taps Into the Cultural Consciousness
July 18, 2018Artistic expression feeds on hardship, thrives on restrictions, adjusts to turbulence, and withstands setbacks. That’s the...
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Screenwriting
Flipping the Script: How to Navigate the Ups and Downs of the Spec Script Market
June 21, 2018It seems that every couple of years, the spec script is declared “dead.” Indeed, in January,...
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Movie News
Cannes Film Festival 2018: Nandita Das’ Biopic Manto Examines Iconclast Writer Saadat Hasan Manto
May 24, 2018Presented in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section, Nandita Das’ biopic, Manto, follows the most...
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Directing
Frame of Mind: To Do True Crime Right, The Confession Tapes Used Private Interview Locations and Macro Lenses (Video)
October 26, 2017What makes a scene work? Does it lie in the carefully executed plans of a film’s...
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Movie News
The World’s 15 Bloody Best Genre Fests, 2018
October 16, 2017The language of fear, like that of music, is universal. Put all the people who’ve weathered...
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Cinematography
How They Did It: This Cinematographer Shot and Survived Explosive Wildfires For The Netflix Doc Series Fire Chasers
September 8, 2017Exploding propane tanks and live rounds, swirling firestorms, 10-ton airborne retardant drops, invisible fire pits and...
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Directing
“Darkness on the Beach”: Writer-Director Eliza Hittman Chose 16mm to Help Create the Eerie New York of Beach Rats
August 23, 2017In her second feature Beach Rats, writer-director Eliza Hittman has once again crafted an atmospheric coming-of-age...
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Directing
Making a Living by Mixing Media: How to Make the Leap From Directing Features to Directing Television
August 17, 2017Imagine a world where you earn a steady, livable paycheck doing what you love—directing—and little else....
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Acting
Under Pressure: With Her Bitingly Excellent Horror-Comedy Bitch, Filmmaker Marianna Palka Wages a War Against Time
August 11, 2017Sometimes a logline just calls your name. “A woman snaps under crushing life pressures and assumes...
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