Author: Landon Palmer

Drafthouse Films For a while, it seemed like movies about music were at serious risk of getting in an unsalvageable rut of redundancy. Narrative films…

Welcome to Filmmaking Tips, a long-running column in which we gather up the shared knowledge of a particular filmmaker and assemble it all into the internet’s…

Neil Breen Writer/Director/Producer/Editor/Actor/Music Supervisor Neil Breen throws himself against the dry ground of the Nevada desert, articulating the existential climax of his dense, bewildering, remarkable…

EW Warning: Spoilers for Gone Girl (book and film) Boy kisses girl. Fade out. Throughout the canon of classic Hollywood to today’s rom-coms, the beginning of…

We explore some of the wisdom shared over the years by legendary filmmaker David Lynch.

How David Cronenberg’s and Samuel Fuller’s New Novels Help Us Better Understand Their Cinematic Visions With David Fincher’s adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl opening…

Amplify Warning: This article is best read after having seen all the films in the title. Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem is widely considered both an…

If there are two words that describe public appreciation of William Greaves, they would be “belated” and “lacking.” The film Greaves is best known for,…

Corniche Pictures As if by magic, music somehow repeatedly allows movies to get away with things that wouldn’t work in any other context. Musicals regularly…