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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Sydney on the Map: To Land Breakout Roles, Sydney Sweeney Draws Her Own Maps of the Characters She Inhabits
A reverent initiate of a patriarchal regime; a disturbed young psychiatric hospital ward; a sexually questioning teen with a flair for the dramatic; a mysterious denizen...Inside the Issue: Directing
Think Like A Photographer: Generation Wealth’s Lauren Greenfield Shares How Still Techniques Make Better Movies
The biggest change I experienced when I went from making pictures to making films was the sense of an arc—of creating a story over time, and...Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: Casting Unknowns Was Key to Finding the Laughs and Lived-In Feel of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade
Before I directed my first film, Eighth Grade, I had heard that 90 percent of directing is casting. I’m sure there are other directors who weigh...2