All posts tagged "Spike Lee"
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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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Cinema Law
Indie Law: How to Secure and Hold the Rights to Your Project
February 14, 2019In the documentary on legendary producer Robert Evans, The Kid Stays in the Picture, Evans explains early and often that...
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Distribution
A Teller’s Market: How To Tell Your Own Story and Lay Bare Your Personal Brand
December 13, 2018Tasked with unpacking the most overlooked, underestimated part of film marketing and distribution, I considered examples...
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Other
Keep on Keepin’ On: Mario Van Peebles on How His Father Brought Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song to Life
May 10, 2018A trailblazer in radical 1970s cinema, Melvin van Peebles’ home-grown experimental milestone gained a new audience...
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Directing
How They Did It: Tips on Recreating Period, VFX, and Big Action on a Low Budget From the Director of Gangster Land
December 6, 2017“A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movie that you didn’t intend...
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Directing
Reels On Wheels: Watch How Spike Lee’s Dolly Shots Glide Characters Through Their Frenzied Environments (Video)
March 20, 2017The dolly shot: It’s an eye-popping technique. The characters it frames seem to float through the...
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Acting
Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2017: Maltin Modern Master Denzel Washington Reflects on His Career
February 7, 2017Few names inspire as much respect as Denzel Washington’s. Audiences know him from, well, countless stellar...
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Documentary
Subjective Nonfiction: Jeff Feuerzeig on New Journalism, Punk Rock and Author: The JT LeRoy Story
September 12, 2016“If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four...
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Festivals
Sundance 2016: See Indie Film’s Movers and Shakers in Jeff Vespa’s Beautiful @Portraits
January 29, 2016Jeff Vespa has been the Sundance Film Festival’s official photographer since 2003, a post that gives...
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Cinematography
"Lenses are the Protein You Choose When You’re Cooking:" an Interview with Matthew Libatique
December 3, 2015You could say that cinematographer Matthew Libatique is having a banner year, with F. Gary Gray’s...
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