All posts tagged "Whiplash"
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Moonshot Moviemaking: To Cut Outside the Box, Live an Outside-the-Edit-Bay Life and Treasure All Your Footage
Big league moviemaking is a fast-paced sport. With every at-bat moviemakers are expected to be able to square up a blazing fastball and tear up...
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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,” went the one...
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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 often each new...
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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 a religion. Good...
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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 posted regularly. Having...
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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 of a modern-day...
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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 a point where...
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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 experienced this reaction...
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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, Seymour: An Introduction....
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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 be touting their...
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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...