All posts tagged "Robert Altman"
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Settling the Score: Director Matthew Porterfield on Selecting and Syncing Perfect Songs for Sollers Point
I’ve been committed to the idea of using mostly diegetic sound in my films. It’s not that I’m against score, I just find the puzzle...
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“Matters of the Heart”: Alan Rudolph and Keith Carradine Reflect on Their 40 Year Working Relationship
Beginning his career as an A.D. on the sets of his mentor Robert “Bob” Altman’s The Long Goodbye, California Split, and Nashville, Alan Rudolph has...
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AFI Fest 2017 Wrap: Team MovieMaker’s Favorites From Another Characteristically Strong Showing
Due to its placement in late Fall and the strength of its programming team, AFI Fest has always felt like a who’s-who of the past...
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2017 AFI Fest Preview: 10 Films and Filmmakers From This Year’s Line-Up You Should Track Down
Returning for the 31st round, AFI Fest continues to have some of the most striking, innovative, and exciting filmmaking in national and international cinema. From...
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Improvised Anxiety: On the Rocks is a Painfully Hilarious Microbudget Feature
Incredibly uncomfortable and relentlessly hilarious, On the Rocks, the first feature from Alex Kavutskiy and Ariel Gardner, is a tragicomedy of epic proportions. The story...
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First Draft: Wield These Wordsmithing Weapons to Beat Down Screenwriting Clichés
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Plot and character-related exposition in screenplays is unavoidable. Your audience...
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TV Training Ground: Watch the Small Screen Television Work That Shaped Robert Altman Into a Big Screen Auteur (Video)
When it comes to the question of where or how you should start your moviemaking career, there’s no right or wrong answer. For Robert Altman,...
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Criterion Crash Course: Moviemaking Lessons From Criterion’s Punch-Drunk Love
Whether you’re a moviemaker, critic or devoted film collector, lovers of cinema can all agree: A Criterion Collection release is a stamp of cultural importance....
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ICYMI: The Best of October 2016 on Moviemaker.com
Take a break from crafting that last-second DIY costume to revisit the best articles of October 2016 on moviemaker.com. We’ve picked out our favorite 10 posts from...
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Criterion Crash Course: Moviemaking Lessons from Criterion’s McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Whether you’re a moviemaker, critic or devoted film collector, lovers of cinema can all agree: A Criterion Collection release is a stamp of cultural importance....
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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...