Racking Focus: How Independent Filmmaking Has Become Inverted
A recent comment by James Gray reveals how indie and commercial cinema have in effect switched places.
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Racking Focus: Should You Enter the Conversation Around Your Own Film?
The public conversation around their films is the one part of the process most filmmakers don't touch. Here's why they should.
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Racking Focus: Understanding Your Filmmaker Brand
With financing for one's films so contingent upon the brand a filmmaker cultivates for themselves, it's important to consider one's body of work carefully.
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Interview: Michel Gondry, Tireless Innovator
Michel Gondry's latest act of reinvention? Animating a doc with one of the country's leading intellectuals.
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Racking Focus: Does 'Nymphomaniac' Suggest a New Distribution Scheme?
What 'Nymphomaniac' indicates might be a future type of storytelling.
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Racking Focus: How Theater Chains and VOD Can Happily Co-Exist
If VOD really is the next big thing, theater chains will have to accept it. Here's a way they just might.
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Indie Master John Sayles Discusses Genre And His Latest, 'Go For Sisters'
John Sayles is as much a godfather of contemporary American indie cinema as John Cassavetes. His latest film, 'Go For Sisters,' cleverly blends a character study with genre elements.
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Racking Focus: 'Don Jon' And New Distribution Strategies
Joseph Gordon-Levitt's 'Don Jon' points a way toward a new kind of distribution strategy for studios.
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Racking Focus: What Netflix's Jump Into Movies Means for Filmmakers
As Netflix announces its move into original cinema, indie filmmakers will see a new window of opportunity.
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'The Square' Displays The Impact Of New Technology on Documentary Film
'The Square' is one of the first documentaries to show the full breadth of how technological advances are aiding documentary cinema. We talked to Jehane Noujaim about how he documented Egypt's revolutionary moment.
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