The Searchers

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Alexandre O. Philippe didn't make his documentary The Taking in hopes of canceling old Western movies. Instead, he wants to…

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“Australia was built on free labour. 180 years of free labour,” says director Warwick Thornton. He is talking, of course,…

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“Life is nasty and brutish and short.” “Thomas Hobbes said that,” he explains. It’s the perfect bookend to our conversation…

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First Draft: Seeing Is Conceiving. Build a Blueprint to Work Visuals Into Your Screenplay

In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Writing visually is something a lot…

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ICYMI: The Best of March 2017 on Moviemaker.com

For the moviemakers featured in our slate of content throughout March 2017, resourcefulness was the name of the game. Whether…

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  • Moviemaking

100 Seconds of Greatness: Analyzing the First Scene of John Ford’s The Searchers

What made John Ford a great director? Let’s try an experiment to help answer that question. Let’s look at a…

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