The Technique of Film and Video Editing : Theory and Practice
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A guide for future directors conveying the artistic and aesthetic principles and practices of editing for both picture and sound. Analyzes classic and contemporary films and videos within the history of storytelling. Updated from the 1993 edition to incorporate new technologies and such innovations as the MTV style, psychoanalytic ideas, and the triumph of style over content. — Copyright © 1999 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR All rights reserved Read the rest of this entry »
Independent Film & Videomaker’s Guide 2nd Edition
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This is the new, completely, expanded and revised edition with all the information you need from fund-raising through distribution. A practical and comprehensive book that will help filmmakers save time and money, while inspiring them to create successful projects. Contents include: writing a business plan, developing your ideas into concepts, treatments and scripts, directing, producing, market research, Read the rest of this entry »
All I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger
If there is a new favorite madman in my life it is Lloyd Kaufman. This book was impossible to stop reading. Kaufman’s story is that of many struggling filmmakers who fail early and stop producing, only he doesn’t stop. The story of Kaufman’s career and the formation of Troma Studios is one of inspiring determination, [...]
Out of Tune
Director–Lance Mungia,
Starring-Jeffrey Falcon, Justin McGuire,
Comedy 81 min,
Rated PG-13,
color.
Reviews: “We get a lot of king wannabes on the way to Vegas,” announces a bartender in this midnight-movie wannabe, which is almost as amusing as it is self-conscious. Almost. The time is the present, but the past is alternative reality. It seems that in 1957 the [...]
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
Comedy 2000
Peter Segal (Director),
Eddie Murphy (Professor Sherman Klump/Buddy Love/Mama Klump/Papa Klump/Ernie Klump/Grandma Klump),
Janet Jackson (Denise Gains),
Jamal Mixon (Ernie Jr.),
Larry Miller (Dean Richmond),
John Ales (Jason).
Reviews: Bigger isn’t always better. That’s a lesson the filmmakers behind Nutty Professor II: The Klumps should take to heart. The long-awaited follow-up to Eddie Murphy’s 1996 surprise blockbuster [...]
Dynamic cast gets stuck in soggy comedy
John Hartl
Director–Martha Coolidge
Starring -Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau
What a dynamite cast. What a savvy director. And what a soggy comedy they’re all stuck in. Apparently the first-time screenwriter, Robert Nelson Jacobs, was thinking of something along the lines of The Lady Eve, Preston Sturgis’ witty 1941 shipboard comedy-romance starring Henry Fonda as a naive millionaire [...]
A Story of Friendship
John Hartl
Director–Tony Barbieri
Starring- Autumn Macintosh, Jason Cairns, Kane Picoy, Paul Herman
Friendship is so seldom addressed seriously in films these days that you don’t expect an entire movie to keep coming back to it as the central theme.
Tony Barbieri’s One is, on the surface, the story of an ex-con, Charlie (Jason Cairns), who is a walking [...]
A Parade of Stereotypes
John Hartl
Director–Christopher Cain
Starring -Hilary Swank, Noriyuki (Pat) Morita
Cute little monks who take up Zen bowling when they visit Boston.Bungee-jumping rednecks who crash the senior prom.A karate teacher who is forever announcing “fighting no good” immediately after wasting half a dozen bad guys.The script for this fourth installment in the Karate Kid series is so [...]
Art Failure
Director–Finn Taylor
Starring Brad Hunt, David Arquette
Drama 96 min
What a film Finn Taylor’s Dream with the Fishes could have been. As much as Taylor’s script for Pontiac Moon got lost when it became an ill-advised starring vehicle for Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen, Dream’s potential is stifled by the first-time director’s determination to tell his story [...]
Portrait of the Artist as a Kid
Director–Agnes Merlet
Starring Michel Seurrault, Valentina Cervi
98 min
The problem with some films about artists is that they don’t successfully convey why we should care about their subjects’ work. Camille Claudel and Basquiat, for example, presented artists whose madness or breakdown seemed more important than whatever was essential about their talent.
