The Filmmaking Principles of Takeshi Kitano

This behind the scenes snippet demonstrates Takeshi Kitano‘s somewhat unique filmmaking style of speed.Read More

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Watch Live: The Gotham Independent Film Awards

Watch the Gothams live. Right Here. The 2015 Gotham Awards will stream live right here in this spot. Please tune in at 6:15PM Eastern Time on Nov 30th. Engage on Twitter with #GothamAwards

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Slamdance Announces 2016 Narrative and Documentary Competition Films

Slamdance today announced the 20 films that comprise its 2016 Narrative and Documentary Competition selections. A total of 16 premieres — 12 World, three North American and one U.S. — will be presented January 22 – 28 at the festival’s usual digs atop mainstream at the Treasure Mountain Inn, Park City, Utah. Said co-founder and Slamdance President Peter Baxter in a statement, “The standard of DIY filmmaking around the world is the highest we’ve seen, and the diversity of storytelling is the most we’ve experienced. With a record breaking number of submissions to select from, the narrative and documentary feature […]

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Tim Burton on growing up as a ‘weirdo’

Tim Burton explains his awkward childhood as a “weirdo” in this 1993 interview.Read More

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Apparition Brew

Recently I sat down with a filmmaker who had a good run in the ’70s and still has a bit of a cult following. He asked that I meet him at The Red Deer Diner, at night. The owner would keep it open after closing time. Kids in Halloween costumes trickled out as I came in. There was Pocahontas and GI Joe. Casper ran into me, apologized, kept going. The filmmaker was already there, sitting on a stool at the counter. I joined him. We both drank black coffee. He said: “I’ll tell you what the problem is. I’ll tell […]

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Understanding Intel Processor Generations As Fast As Possible

If you’re building an editing machine you may have heard about the Generations of Intel Processor – LinusTech covers some of the history of the Intel CPU and explains the generations of chips:Read More

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The Weird Story of Eadweard Muybridge’s Nude Motion Studies

Eadweard Muybridge was fascinating, completely bizarre, and undoubtedly a genius. This is how he photographed incredible subjects in all different conditions.Read More

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Samuel L. Jackson and Quentin Tarantino Explain the Concept of the Roadshow for The Hateful Eight

Samuel L. Jackson, Quentin Tarantino and the filmmakers behind “The Hateful Eight” and explain their roadshow concept for showcasing their film in glorious 70mm.Read More

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BRITDOC Launches the World’s First Documentary Cookbook on Kickstarter

With awards like the Cinema Eye Honors’ Unforgettables Award, documentary organizations are beginning to draw attention not just to the filmmakers behind documentary cameras but the subjects in front. Still, BRITDOC’s latest is utterly original: the world’s first documentary cookbook. Currently fundraising on Kickstarter, the project is a digital download illustrated by Ben Lamb containing savory recipes from documentary subjects all over the world, from Chicago’s Ameena Matthews (from Steve James’ The Interrupters) to Burma’s Joshua Min Htut (Burma VJ) to an as-yet-unrevealed “certain American living somewhere in Russia.” Six of the doc chefs have already been announced, with all […]

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Remembering Setsuko Hara, 1920 – 2015

I once lived with a woman for two years because her face and her energy reminded me of Setsuko Hara. There was the promise of beautiful dignity. The potential of sensual morality. And then of course the Setsuko illusion shattered when the woman threw a plate at my head. I’m not alone in falling for the great Japanese actress who passed recently at 95. There aren’t many movie stars that one wants for a wife and to grow old with. For instance, no one sees By The Sea, and says, “Geez, I gotta go find me an Angelina to propose […]

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Kickstarting Paper Chase with the Top Five Black Characters in Mainstream Teen Movies

We love teen movies. We’ve seen everything from Say Anything to Whatever It Takes, Pretty In Pink to Drive Me Crazy. Name a teen movie that was in theaters and chances are we’ve seen it twice. But while we love these films we were always taken aback by the lack of diversity. Though Kid and Play and films like House Party and Class Act shook things up by adding some brown faces to the teen movie mix, it is still bleak out there. This void inspired us to make our own teen movie Paper Chase. Paper Chase is a comedy […]

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Tenth Annual “Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You” Series at MoMA December 11-14

The annual Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You Screening Series, co-presented by The Museum of Modern Art, Filmmaker Magazine, and IFP kicks off December 11th at MoMA. The series, now in its tenth year, singles out outstanding films from the film festival circuit that are currently not available in theaters and deserve a wider audience. Each film will screen twice at MoMA from December 11-14. Most screenings will be followed by Q & A’s with the directors and additional talent. The selected films are Bloomin Mud Shuffle, directed by Frank V. Ross; Bob and the Trees, directed by Diego Ongaro; H., directed by Daniel […]

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Building a Christmas Tree Stand to Make a Movie: Charles Poekel on Christmas, Again

From day one there wasn’t much about the making of Christmas, Again that you could describe as “traditional.”  So, when it came to releasing the film, it only felt natural to explore the less “traditional” routes. I use “traditional” in quotes because in 2015 I can safely say that non-“traditional” strategies are the new norm, if not the only viable option for any film, big or small (we’ve seen quite a few high-profile, big-budget “traditional” releases tank this year). So moving forward, I’ll refer to our strategy as “individualized,” which I think is a more accurate way of describing this norm. […]

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‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Cinematography ­- Variety Artisans

Cinematographer John Seale has been one of the best in the business for decades, and has an Oscar for “The English Patient.” At age 70, he found himself in the Namibian desert shooting one of the year’s most startling films, “Mad Max: Fury Road.” He joined Variety’s David Cohen to explain what it was like Read MoreRead More

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How Plastic Injection Molding Works

Bill, the engineerguy, details the key engineering principles underlying plastic injection molding which shares the same history and material source as film.  Read More

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Creating the Stargate Portal by Shanks FX

Shanks FX puts a simple model to use building an incredible Stargate effect using miniatures and composites:Read More

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An Illustrated overview of Woody Allen’s Body of Work

Nathan Gelgud celebrates and Examines the Career of Woody Allen. Click to read the entire article.  Read More

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How They Write A Script: Paddy Chayefsky

Noted playwright, screenwriter, and probably the most famous television writer during its so-called golden age of live TV, Paddy Chayefsky is one of the most revered contemporary American writers. Here are some interview excerpts taken from the book “The Craft of the Screenwriter.” ON THE THREE-ACT STRUCTURE “The three-act structure is the form that I grew up in the Read MoreRead More

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“Always Give Exposition While Running From a Bear”: Drew and John Erick Dowdle on No Escape

For the past few years I’ve been bemoaning the decline of the mid-range genre film, the action movie or horror flick that is neither a contained micro-budget opus straining against its resources nor an oppressive studio behemoth in which all sense of character, theme, and nuance is suffocated under the weight of its own scale and CGI. That mid-range has always been the source of many of America’s best, most enduring films; it’s the arena where masters like Don Siegel, Nicholas Ray, and Anthony Mann plied their trade under the classical studio system, and in more recent decades auteurs like […]

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Mark Hamill on Star Wars – “I’m good about keeping Secrets”

PC Gamer caught up with Mark Hamill on the set of the upcoming game Squadron 42 (Star Citizen). In their lengthy chat he also divulged a few bits of Star Wars info, which we’ve extracted for you to watch here.Read More

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“As Far as I’m Concerned, We Are Making the Movie Version”: Sam Esmail on Mr. Robot

It remains unclear at what point this century cyberpunk — a science-fiction subgenre that emerged largely from the pens of William Gibson and Philip K. Dick — leapt from the realm of speculative to historical fiction; everywhere one looks, it seems that moment has arrived. Many (if not most) westerners live connected to a cyberpunk meta-narrative of their own making these days. We can all be certain, in the era of Edward Snowden, that our digital lives are being recorded. A dystopian view of computing and information technology’s potential, along with a skeptical eye toward vision of “technological as social progress” that corporate propagandists hurl […]

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