Author: Landon Palmer
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The Chilling Message Beyond the Hype and Backlash of ‘Blair Witch’
Artisan Entertainment On July 30, 1999, The Blair Witch Project expanded to a wide theatrical release and raked in over $25,000 per screen on over…
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8 Great Films About The Great War
World War I doesn’t get enough attention in the movies, but here are some essentials depicting that devastating conflict.
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6 Filmmaking Tips from James Gray
Wild Bunch James Gray seems like an anachronism. Between visually noisy blockbusters and indies that display a greater interest in bending narrative conventions rather than…
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Ari Folman’s ‘The Congress’: Where is the Human Element in 21st Century Filmmaking?
Drafthouse Films Stardom is a fundamentally contradictory experience for audiences. On the one hand, we can feel like we know a star intimately as a…
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6 Filmmaking Tips from Terry Gilliam
IFC Films The release of any Terry Gilliam film is a big deal. More so than any living filmmaker of lauded repute, Gilliam’s work has…
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A Radical Call for Peace Amid a Hollywood Obsessed with War
Twentieth Century Fox Warning: Spoilers for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (and all of the Apes films, for that matter) When Battle for the Planet…
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‘Snowpiercer’ and The Weinstein Company’s Engineered Dissent
The Weinstein Company Warning: Spoilers for the ending of Snowpiercer Somewhere along the way, purchasing a ticket for Bong Joon-ho’s long-awaited Snowpiercer became a populist…
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6 Filmmaking Tips from Andy Serkis
When the biggest movie of the calendar year is a nearly three-hour festival of noise starring automotive robots, it’s easy to fear that the human…
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25 Years Later, ‘Do The Right Thing’ Still Feels Unfortunately Fresh
Universal Pictures “Heroes, as far as I could then see, were white, and not merely because of the movies but because of the land in…