All posts tagged "Susan Sarandon"
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First Draft: 11 Anti-Heroes, and Ways to Develop Them In Your Screenplay
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. How do writers craft protagonists that are engaging, compelling, and...
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How They Did It: Bombshell Director on Uncovering Hedy Lamarr’s Beautiful, Brilliant Mind
The hardest part of making Bombshell was finding the truth about Hedy Lamarr. Did this gorgeous movie star really invent a building block of Wi-Fi,...
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First Draft: Follow This Tested and True Rule Book to Explore the Reactions of Your Script’s Characters
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. So much of good storytelling is about cause and effect,...
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AFI Fest 2016 Wrap: Team MovieMaker’s Festival Favorites
AFI Fest’s arrival in fall heralds the true beginning of the holiday season for many Los Angeles-dwellers. With such great cinematic pickings on offer, the...
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Directing on a Dime: The (Budgetary) Highs and Lows of the Duplass Brothers
Welcome to Directing on a Dime, where indie moviemaker Andy Young provides tips and insight for moviemakers whose budget is more The Blair Witch Project...
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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...