All posts tagged "New York"
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The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2019: Big Cities
“The film business as we know it is never going back to Los Angeles,” director Joe Carnahan reportedly said during a recent press conference. “It’s...
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How They Did It: Turning Accidents Into Opportunities on Location in New York City to Make Here and Now
Getting the opportunity to shoot your first feature film in New York City is a dream come true—like being a swimmer selected to compete in...
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The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2018: Big Cities
You can’t choose your family, but you can choose where to find your film family. They’re the PAs you’ll be spending those long, languid afternoons...
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The Artist and his Subject: Rebel in the Rye Capitalizes on Parallels between J.D. Salinger and Holden Caulfield
Danny Strong has acted in some of the most acclaimed television shows of the past two decades (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Mad Men), he created...
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"Meet Me in Montauk": Alamo Drafthouse and Focus Features Memorably Celebrate Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
I’m on a cloudy beach on a cool mid-August afternoon. A trail of footprints sinks into the damp sand as a line of people trudge...
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How They Did It: I Set a Start Date for My $250,000 Film, September Morning, and Stuck to it No Matter What
“How did you find the money?” That’s the question I’ve gotten most from my fellow indie filmmakers the last couple of years. It’s usually asked...
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Getting With the Program: Quad Cinema Is the Latest Addition to a Growing Wave of NYC Indie Arthouse Exhibition
“The economics of an arthouse cinema are not kind, I’ll admit,” says C. Mason Wells, Director of Programming at Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village, New...
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How They Did It: Thriller Ascent to Hell Made a Small Location Feel Large Through Careful Planning
When I closed my eyes I could see it: a factory capable of holding more than 500 workers throughout its three levels. Enclosed stairways connecting...
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Interactive Map: Explore the Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker in 2017
Take a virtual tour of our 26 favorite filmmaking cities in North America on our interactive map of the Best Places to Live and Work...
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The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2017
As an independent moviemaker, your life tends to be a mobile one. You’re forever in search of the perfect landscapes, networks, resources and people to...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
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How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...