Every year people pay great attention to what happens at Cannes. It’s the crown jewel of the global film market. Directors, actors, producers, and studios all descend upon the festival in the hopes of finding distributors and generating real buzz that can help their film ascend to the next level. Below are the top four […]
The reviews for Alien: Covenant aren’t that hot. That said, before you decide not to see it, remember the reviews for Blade Runner (1982) were downright atrocious. When the film was first released you’d have thought that Ridley Scott was washed up. Turns out, he was simply ahead of the pack, way ahead. Blade Runner […]
The last time the Writers Guild of America went on strike the Hollywood machine suffered greatly. Shows like Heroes and Battlestar Galactica took massive dips in quality. Films such as Men in Black 3 and X-men Origins: Wolverine were put into production with almost no script, and the finished products were very telling to say […]
As the director of over 60 projects, Jonathan Demme, who died of complications from esophageal cancer on April 26, 2017, was a creative force to be reckoned with. With films like Philadelphia, The Manchurian Candidate, and Married to the Mob, Demme cemented himself as a highly acclaimed director with a distinctive point of view. He […]
The Fast and Furious film franchise is one of the most bizarre moneymaking machines to occur in recent film history. Starting as a series of lowbrow, car exploitation films in the early 2000’s, it has morphed and evolved into one of the biggest juggernauts in today’s franchise-dominated cinematic landscape. Most recently, Fate of the Furious […]
Listed below are five things that every creative professional hates to deal with. If you’re an up-and-coming creative, please don’t do any of the items listed below. Just don’t. Unreturned Emails, Texts, Phone Calls Communication is key. It really is. Knowing how to return emails, phone calls, and texts in a timely manner should be […]
It’s a fallacy that great filmmakers emerge fully formed, as if they emerge from some “great directors cave” knowing exactly what to do and how to do it. Consider a fine arts painter. Think the first time he put paint onto canvas he was able to capture the look of a cloudy harbor or a […]
In order to build suspense in film you have to plan, exercise control, and use the language of cinema to meet your ends. While it’s true much of the suspense in a scene happens in the edit, you must have the correct building blocks i.e. the right story, the right scenes, and the right shots […]
The way television is consumed has radically changed over the last ten years. Now, the idea of serialized week-to-week storytelling is something alien or at the very least, passé, to most viewers. People want to be able to sit down, watch the entirety of a show, and then move on to the next thing. Even […]
Film is often said to be a director’s medium. They’re the person who has the most creative control and who makes all the key decisions. One of the often overlooked ways directors can make specific narrative and tonal choices that inform how the audience absorbs the story is through the use of color, shaping the […]
