Still from Mad Bills to Pay.. Reflecting in 1983 on her early years at a literary agency, novelist Isabel Colegate ruefully recalled writing reader reports that involved ”mostly explaining in detail why the typescripts concerned were quite unpublishable, falling as they did so very far below the standards set by the world’s greatest literature, which in my ignorance of there being any ...

Nov 15, 2024 · Though Debra Granik is no stranger to Sundance — 2004’s Down to the Bone, 2018’s Leave No Trace and 2010’s Oscar-nominated (in four categories) Winter’s Bone all premiered in Park City — I was a bit surprised to see the indie vet’s name attached to a project at the fest’s 40th edition earlier this year. Unlike the director’s prior critically-acclaimed films, …

Canon EOS C80. You might conclude that the C80 and C400 are essentially the same camera, only in two shapes and sizes. This underscores the current situation that when it comes to compact cine cameras, two profiles compete: mirrorless, descended from DSLR still cameras held up to the eye—and boxy, which are blind (sans viewfinder) and covered with buttons, …

May 18, 2021 · Writer-director Eugene Ashe was a successful musician before he started making films, a background evident in every exquisite frame of Sylvie’s Love.Not just because male lead Robert (Nnamdi Asomugha) is a saxophonist and the movie features the best jazz soundtrack since ’Round Midnight, and not just because female lead Sylvie (Tessa Thompson) begins the …

Feb 16, 2021 · Candy Flip and Theo Meow/Meow Meow – The Sad Girls of the Mountains . Only a few minutes into The Sad Girls of the Mountains (Die traurigen Mädchen aus den Bergen), I had the deliciously disoriented feeling of having pretty much no idea what I had gotten myself into. Sad Girls is a black comedy feminist mockumentary eviscerating the patriarchy, activism, public …

Feb 15, 2024 · Green: Yeah, I was coming out of editing King Richard, and I received a script.At the time, I felt like, “I don’t know if I should even open this.” Like, “Is this real?” Filmmaker: Meaning, you didn’t know the status of the life rights? Green: I mean, I wanted it to be legit. Filmmaker: How did you go about vetting the material? Green: I did some backchanneling with …

Hits & Misses 2024: Case Studies of Six Sundance 2024 Premieres. In September, Variety declared, “Indie Films Are Staging a Box Office Comeback,” touting the success of the films Longlegs, Thelma and Late Night with the Devil as signs of life for a segment of the industry “crushed by COVID, strikes and streaming,” as reporter Brent Lang wrote.

Sep 27, 2024 · Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist took seven years to realize, a process he understandably seems to have found traumatic—both the film and interviews he’s given about it are about how financiers are monsters. Per Corbet, The Brutalist “was made for under $10 million.But I still need millions of dollars. That’s very complicated because it means I often …

Dec 15, 2022 · Course assignments include listening to specially created soundscapes in the dark and writing stories in response; viewing photographs that are structured and yet slightly surreal and, again, writing a story; keeping a dream journal written from bed upon awakening; and writing two screenplays based on the dream journals.

Dec 12, 2024 · For Myron Kerstein, whose work on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s feature debut Tick, Tick… Boom! earned him a 2022 Oscar nomination for best editing, cutting a musical number is no different than any other scene in a movie. With Wicked, the editor’s third collaboration with director Jon M. Chu (following Crazy Rich Asians and In the Heights), Kerstein had roughly …