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60 Best Blogs for Aspiring Screenwriters
If there’s a single filmmaking fact we can all agree on it’s that this isn’t a career for the faint of heart. Even with talent and determination it can often be an uphill slog so you can never have too many resources to help you on your way. With this in mind bachelorsdegree.org have collated [...]
DN Gear
Back in 2006 when I first launched DN I spent a massive chunk of my time hunting down information on podcast set ups in the hope of finding the ‘perfect’ rig. Short answer, there is no one perfect solution, but there is a solution that will work for you. From time to time people ask [...]
Indie Film’s 25 New Faces Revealed
If lists and the freshest talent in film are your thing – they are ours – then, like us, you’ll be poring over Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces list with interest. These are the folks likely to be rocking our screens in the near future so take note.
Saint John of Las Vegas
It was in the early to mid 90′s when I really fell in love with cinema, the “boom” period of alternative American cinema was in full flow and the likes of Jim Jarmusch, Quentin Tarantino, Tom DiCillo, Robert Rodriguez and The Coen Brothers were all hitting their peak. These “indie” films were not only the [...]
The Brothers Bloom
When Rian Johnson’s Brick came out in 2005, the class and confidence shown in the young filmmaker’s directorial debut blew me away. For those of you that haven’t seen Brick, it plays out like part hard-boiled, neo-noir detective story and part high school drama; imagine the novels of Dashiell Hammett mixed with Alexander Payne’s Election. [...]
The Killer Inside Me
Every year there seems to be a film doing the circuit that is engulfed in controversy and elicits very strong reactions from its audience. Whether it’s Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist and its “shockingly graphic mutilations”, Gasper Noe’s Irréversible and its “sad, sickening exhibitionism” or Vincent Gallo’s Brown Bunny, branded as the “worst film in the [...]
Valhalla Rising
Sometimes I know I’m going to love a film just from seeing one still. Sure, sometimes this assumption can prove hideously wrong, but on other occasions it can be a perfect presumption. Arriving at the London Film Festival last year, I picked up the heavily packed programme and started thumbing my way through a head-spinning [...]
Moviemaker’s 10 Podcasts Worth a Listen
Time is short, so if you had to boil all the film podcasts vying for your attention down to a perfect 10, then the 10 Podcasts Worth a Listen list in the Spring issue of Moviemaker Magazine is where I’d start. Now aside from the fact that Directors Notes has made the cut (yea us!), [...]
Nicholas Rombes’ 10/40/70
You know those ideas which are so good you wish they were your own? Well that’s how I feel about Nicholas Rombes’ 10/40/70 film columns. To quote: This column is an experiment in writing about film: what if, instead of freely choosing which parts of the film to address, I select three different, arbitrary time [...]
A Human Sausage, a Human Torso, and Maybe Myself
Airports are meant to be transitory spaces; they are bleak and filled with transitory merchandise. At least, they should be, unless you’ve made a really stupid decision and bought a ticket with an 8-hour layover at a deserted airport in Nyköping (pronounced, for better or for worse, Nish-ping), Sweden. Stay in an airport for more than a [...]
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