All posts tagged "Spike Lee"
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A Teller’s Market: How To Tell Your Own Story and Lay Bare Your Personal Brand
Tasked with unpacking the most overlooked, underestimated part of film marketing and distribution, I considered examples of what previous MovieMaker writers had... -
Keep on Keepin’ On: Mario Van Peebles on How His Father Brought Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song to Life
A trailblazer in radical 1970s cinema, Melvin van Peebles’ home-grown experimental milestone gained a new audience at this year’s TCM Classic Film... -
How They Did It: Tips on Recreating Period, VFX, and Big Action on a Low Budget From the Director of Gangster Land
“A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movie that you didn’t intend to be there.” This quote by... -
Reels On Wheels: Watch How Spike Lee’s Dolly Shots Glide Characters Through Their Frenzied Environments (Video)
The dolly shot: It’s an eye-popping technique. The characters it frames seem to float through the scene, divorced from their surroundings and... -
Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2017: Maltin Modern Master Denzel Washington Reflects on His Career
Few names inspire as much respect as Denzel Washington’s. Audiences know him from, well, countless stellar performances in virtually all genres. He’s... -
Subjective Nonfiction: Jeff Feuerzeig on New Journalism, Punk Rock and Author: The JT LeRoy Story
“If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million correct facts. But it doesn’t... -
Sundance 2016: See Indie Film’s Movers and Shakers in Jeff Vespa’s Beautiful @Portraits
Jeff Vespa has been the Sundance Film Festival’s official photographer since 2003, a post that gives him the unusual privilege of capturing... -
"Lenses are the Protein You Choose When You’re Cooking:" an Interview with Matthew Libatique
You could say that cinematographer Matthew Libatique is having a banner year, with F. Gary Gray’s N.W.A. biopic, Straight Outta Compton, and... -
Postcards from Colombia: The Making of Josef Wladyka’s Manos Sucias
When Josef Wladyka, director of Manos Sucias, arrived in Buenaventura, Colombia to shoot his feature about that country’s notorious drug trade, he... -
Things I’ve Learned (from Spike Lee): Director Julius Onah of The Girl is in Trouble
Nigerian-born, Philippines-and-Virginia-bred director Julius Onah met Spike Lee as a graduate film student at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where the...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Matt Dillon
The longevity of Matt Dillon’s laudable career is a byproduct of his self-reinvention. Oscillating between charismatic leading and comedic supporting roles, the New York-based actor has...Inside the Issue: Directing
MovieMaker Melee: 1985 and Tyrel Writer-Directors Yen Tan and Sebastián Silva Debate Their Processes’ Pros and Cons
To ring in the first installment of our new MovieMaker Melee debate series, we invited two indie moviemakers with films releasing this fall—Tyrel writer-director Sebastián Silva and...Inside the Issue: How To
Inside the Creative Process: Karyn Kusama Walks Through Five Phases of Production, From Screenwriting to Distribution
Guest Moviemaker Karyn Kusama has been through a lot in her career. Kusama broke out in 2000 with her debut feature Girlfight, which earned the Grand...