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Fall 2012
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Touchdown Dance
David O. Russell makes bipolar disorder, dance competitions and the NFL the stuff of romantic comedy in Silver Linings Playbook, a seriously funny feature with star turns by Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. Miguel Arteta interviews writer/director Russell and executive producer/star Cooper.
By Miguel Arteta
Features
Rust and Bone co-writer/director Jacques Audiard. Photo by Henny Garfunkel. Subscribers
Body Blows
In Jacques Audiard’s tough-minded romantic melodrama, Rust and Bone, Marion Cotillard delivers a powerful performance as a woman struggling to rebuild her life after a devastating accident. Nick Dawson speaks with writer/director Audiard and co-screenwriter Thomas Bidegain.
By Nick Dawson
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FCP X and the Future of Editing
Editing is older than motion pictures. The ordering and pacing of dialogues, scenes, entrances and exits to build conflict and resolution have long defined Western theater, from Aeschylus’s Oresteia to Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung [Der Ring Des Nibelungen]. It was the insertion of first-person thoughts into dialogue and plot that modernized 18th- and 19th-century novels and clever sequencing of mechanically animated magic lantern glass slides that thrilled Victorian audiences to popular epics like Ben-Hur.
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Love on the Outside
Ava DuVernay won the Best Director prize at Sundance for her second dramatic feature, Middle of Nowhere, a heartfelt and complex tale of a woman discovering her own identity while fighting for the parole of her convict husband. A writer, director and also distributor, DuVernay is releasing the film through a partnership between her own African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement and Participant Media. Producer Nekisa Cooper learns more.
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Subscribers Physical Therapy
Jessica Yu revisits the subject of her own Academy Award-winning short documentary Breathing Lessons by speaking with writer/director Ben Lewin, whose The Sessions brings the story of the paralyzed poet Mark O’Brien to dramatic life.
This is premium content. To read the rest, please log in. If you are not currently a member, please purchase a digital subscription to Filmmaker or join IFP.by Jessica Yu
Other articles
- Editing Life of Pi By Scott Macaulay
- Investing in Audience By Karin Chien
- The App Revolution By Horace Dediu
- How to Do a Festival Q&A By Scott Macaulay
- Culture Hacker: Is Story Simply a Utility? By Lance Weiler
- Goodbye, New York By Anthony Kaufman
- Debate Club By Heather Chaplin
- Bay Area Boom By Nick Dawson
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Adult Friend Finder
Dree Hemingway is a sweet porn star and Besedka Johnson — Best Actress winner at the 2012 SXSW Film Festival — is the mysteriously bitter older woman she befriends in Sean Baker’s sun-streaked relationship drama, Starlet. Interview by Scott Macaulay.
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Subscribers Troubled Assets
With the 2008 post-crash Presidential election as ironic backdrop, Andrew Dominik’s violent crime, Killing Them Softly, bitterly regards our crumbling American dream. Brandon Harris interviews the Australian writer/director.
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Subscribers New Media, New Cuts
The future of editing may not lie in the tools editors use but the new formats that feature their work.
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