All posts tagged "Roman Polanski"
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The Official Story: Capturing the Final Words of America’s Most Notorious Criminal
After a year of working on a documentary that investigates the original claims made about Charles Manson’s crimes, mind control, and the... -
How They Did It: The Producer of Destination Unknown Spent Over a Decade Collecting Interviews With Holocaust Survivors
Despite being clad in all-weather gear, I remained chilled to the bone on an early morning visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau back in April... -
First Draft: Lessons in Screenplay Plants and Payoffs from Chinatown and The Orphanage
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. “Bad for glass,” says private eye Jake Gittes... -
Mutiny! And How to Avoid It: Managing Delicate Temperaments on Set
If you want to avoid mutiny on your set, you probably shouldn’t be reading this. That’s because the best way to avoid... -
Things I’ve Learned: Seth MacFarlane’s Golden Rules of Moviemaking
Step inside the rambunctious mind of Emmy Award winning director/writer/animator Seth MacFarlane, as he gives us his 17 golden rules of moviemaking. Famous... -
Tough Gals Never Die: Faye Dunaway Keeps Going Strong with Arizona Dream
Exploding onto the American screen with her high impact performance as Bonnie Parker in Bonnie and Clyde (with Warren Beatty, 1967), Faye...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Mads Mikkelsen
From Star Wars to Marvel, from prestige TV (Hannibal) to high-profile Oscar contenders (At Eternity’s Gate), Mads Mikkelsen can be seen stretching his dramatic skills across the board these...1Inside the Issue: Directing
The 2019 MovieMaker Sundance Survey: Eleven Sundance-Selected Films, and Their Mountain-Bound Makers
The 35th Sundance Film Festival received a record-breaking 14,000-plus submissions, with 4,000-plus feature-length films among them. Of the 112 features selected, 45 of their makers were first-timers. The fest’s...1Inside the Issue: How To
Breaking and Entering, Part One: How To Shoot Down Self-Doubt and Pay the Rent While Making It In the Film Industry
Becoming a moviemaker seemed like an impossibly ambitious goal when I was growing up. I was living in Brazil, watching bootleg copies of David Cronenberg films and, with...