All posts tagged "Whiplash"
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Under Pressure: With Her Bitingly Excellent Horror-Comedy Bitch, Filmmaker Marianna Palka Wages a War Against Time
Sometimes a logline just calls your name. “A woman snaps under crushing life pressures and assumes the psyche of a vicious dog,”... -
First Draft: Top Moviemakers Share The Worst Notes They Ever Received
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Writing is rewriting, as they say, and... -
Something to Believe In: Bleed For This’ Ben Younger, Miles Teller and Aaron Eckhart Will Their Way to Greatness
“I don’t believe in God,” actor Javier Bardem once said, “I believe in… Al Pacino.” For many of us, movies are almost... -
First Draft: What’s Missing From Your Screenplay? Stakes
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting, we present “First Draft,” a series on everything to do with screenwriting. New articles, first published by Creative Screenwriting, are... -
A Script Is No Longer Enough: Why First-Time Feature Directors Must Make a Proof-of-Concept
For anyone who’s just purchased their first copy of Final Draft, the notion of the spec script still feels like the equivalent... -
Cut to: The Finish Line
With a festival deadline perilously close, how can you and your editor make the most of your submission? If you are at... -
Divide and Conquer: Damien Chazelle on Why You Should Make a Short First
“It’s a movie about a jazz drummer.” Cue eyes glazing over. By the time I got lucky enough to make Whiplash, I’d... -
Seymour: An Introduction: Ethan Hawke and Seymour Bernstein Create the Opposite of Whiplash
“Do you know anyone who became a movie star at 87?” joked Seymour Bernstein, the subject of Ethan Hawke’s documentary directing debut,... -
Best of 2014: 10 Stories from the Back Row
It’s mid-January, 2015. The new year. A time for reflection and a time for dishing out awards. These days everyone seems to... -
Best of 2014: Top Five Sophomore Features of 2014
Does second album syndrome apply to moviemaking, too? Absolutely. It’s one thing to cobble together favors and enthusiasm for your first feature,...
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Inside the Issue: Distribution
Your Key to Distribution Success: Get Keyed in to Key Art, and You’re On Your Way to an Instantly Iconic Movie
Think about some of the most famous posters ever produced: Jaws, Scarface, Taxi Driver, The Shining, Ghostbusters, E.T., The Godfather. What do they have in common? To...2Inside the Issue: Festivals
deadCenter Film Festival 2017: Oklahoma City Is the Biggest Star Of This Consistently Great Event
Film festivals are as good as their programmers and audiences, and the deadCenter film festival has an abundance of excellence in both. From the very first...Inside the Issue: Producing
What Investors Want to Hear: Here Are the Things You Need to Be Telling Potential Financiers In Your Pitch
There are as many different ways to get funding as there are movies made, but the one thing all of those stories have in common is...6