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WEBBeyond the subjective design of the filmmaking—comprising not just what we hear, but how we understand the premise of any given scene—this is a catalyzing collaboration between Chalfant, storied veteran of both stage (Wit) and screen, and Friedland, a student of choreography who sought out a movement-based approach to the subject matter.
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WEBFeb 16, 2021 · Finn Peaks, Katy Bit, Theo Meow, Candy Flip and Jo Pollux. In 2020, Meow and Flip joined with three other Berlin filmmaker friends — Finn Peaks, Katy Bit and Jo Pollux — to release the lush feature Urban Smut. Directed by the five shortly before the pandemic, they had time to finish postproduction in Berlin during COVID isolation.
“Am I Going to Have to Reshoot Half of This Movie?” Howard …
WEBFeb 18, 2021 · Writer-director John Hughes had just begun to make a name for himself with three films he made for Universal (Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Weird Science) when Ned Tanen lured him over to Paramount with an overall deal designed to turn the filmmaker into a mogul.In less than three years, Hughes wrote, produced, and/or directed five movies for the studio (Pretty in Pink, Ferris ...
“Not Just a Formal Thing, But a Political Ethic”: Alice Diop on
WEBon Jun 29, 2022. Alice Diop. Alice Diop’s Nous begins with images of a white family looking through binoculars at an apparently uninhabited landscape, then cuts to a shot of the landscape itself, as if inhabiting their point of view. Immediately, then, the film suggests that the act of looking is one worth paying attention to.
How to Cast and Direct an Ensemble Film: Seven Lessons from
WEBJun 8, 2018 · 4. Hair, Makeup and Harmony. Once you get to set, your actors are going to spend most of their time in their dressing rooms. Regardless of what you did or didn’t negotiate in your contracts, if it’s an indie film, you’re not going to have individual dressing rooms — much less trailers — for most of your actors.
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WEBIn August 2021, Elon Musk announced that his company is prototyping a humanoid robot called the “Tesla Bot.”. He shared the stage with an ecstatically dancing figure that was obviously a human in a robot costume. Musk assured the audience that eventually the robot “will be real” and will derive from the AI system used in Tesla vehicles.
Prometheus Screenwriter Jon Spaihts - Filmmaker Magazine
WEBJun 4, 2012 · Screenwriter Jon Spaihts. by Scott Macaulay. in Filmmaking, Interviews, Screenwriters, Screenwriting. on Jun 4, 2012. Telling the origin story of the creature that terrified us in Alien over three decades ago, Ridley Scott’s Prometheus is one of this summer’s most hotly anticipated films. But somewhat surprisingly, the origins of the ...
The 24 Films (More or Less) Shot on 35mm Released in 2018
WEBApr 24, 2019 · Yorgos Lanthimos shot Alps and The Lobster digitally “out of necessity,” then decided he didn’t “want to shoot digitally again, if at all possible.” After shooting The Killing of a Sacred Deer on 35 with his regular DP Thimios Bakatakis, Lanthimos worked with Robbie Ryan on The Favourite.Ryan is another 35 specialist—among other credits, he’s been Ken Loach’s DP since 2012—so ...
Cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth on Gone Girl , Digital and
WEBNov 19, 2014 · Gone Girl marks d.p. Jeff Cronenweth’s fourth feature film collaboration with David Fincher, a stretch that began with Fight Club in 1999 and has continued through The Social Network and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. (He also worked 2nd and 3rd unit on Se7en and The Game.)It’s a partnership that has transitioned the pair to digital cinematography, with Cronenweth creating cool ...
Ryan Coogler - Filmmaker Magazine
WEBRyan Coogler remembers the first moment it occurred to him to become a film director. Having grown up in Oakland, Coogler was on a football scholarship to Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, Calif., where he had to take a creative writing class. The assignment was to write about a personal experience, and Coogler wrote about the time his father ...