This is a really wonderful interview with Director Jonathan Demme talking to Mark Cousins about Demme’s life and career. Watch Scene By Scene – Jonathan Demme in Entertainment |
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Someone on Twitter just posted, “I keep seeing things about filmmakers needing to brand themselves. Honestly, filmmakers need to make their contact info easy to find first.” That was funny as hell to me so I retweeted it. But it is also true. Which is maybe why it is so funny. Type your name into Google. See what comes up. Are you there? How many pages Read More ...
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Martin Scorsese’s Film School: The 85 Films You Need to See To Know Anything About Film ~ by Rick Tetzeli originally posted on fastocreate.com As we head into Oscars weekend, here’s an A-Z list of the films that influenced the most influential–and Oscar-nominated–director in Hollywood, Martin Scorsese (in other words, the films you need to see to be the film expert you think you are). Interviewing Martin Read More ...
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I find Kevin Smith enormously entertaining. He is enormously entertaining in general actually which may explain his notoriety despite being primarily an indie filmmaker with a relatively small stack of credits. The guy just goes out and does stuff. Here he is talking about protesting his own film, Dogma — and ending up on the news doing it. This so cracks me up. Also, if there is Read More ...
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This is a hilarious mock trailer that pokes fun at British indie film. It is from (of course) Kevin Curtis. See more about him at his website KevinCurtis.biz. About || Classes || Projects || News || Gallery || Contact || Register || Letters ||
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I know, that was a drastically long absence, but it was a drastic film festival and conference — and a hell of a lot of fun. In lieu of actually writing something — I am a little frazzled trying to pick up the pieces post life returning to normal [okay that is a little humor "normal" ha ha] — photo fun yay! *Pictured Left: Oh yez, that is Read More ...
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