Racking Focus: How Will 'Breaking Bad' Change Cinema?
No one will deny that Breaking Bad will be a culturally relevant show for a long time to come. How will its distinct mode of storytelling affect cinema?
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Racking Focus: Indies Have Found an Unsaturated New Niche
There are hundreds of indie films made and distributed every year. But one kind of film has been performing particularly well lately. Will filmmakers follow the obvious demand for intelligent films for adults?
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Racking Focus: What Filmmakers Can Learn From Steve McQueen's Career
Many independent filmmakers are under the illusion that you "start commercial," then become more artistic as time goes on. They couldn't be further from the truth.
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Lake Bell Explores the Voice-Over Subculture in Her Directorial Debut, 'In a World...'
"A friend of mine told me, you know your obsession with girls who talk like sexy babies? You have to put that into your script." Lake Bell sets her directorial debut in the strange world of voice-over acting, and reinvents a few Hollywood genres along the way.
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Racking Focus: What Happens When Everyone Uses the Same Camera?
With high-resolution cameras becoming increasingly cheaper, the moment when Hollywood and micro-budget films use the same camera is fast approaching. What happens then?
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Trusting Your Gut: James Ponsoldt on 'The Spectacular Now'
James Ponsoldt's 'The Spectacular Now' injects a refreshing dose of authenticity into a high school romance. In this interview, Ponsoldt talks about the bigger role actors have in the overall story, as well as how he weeds out pretension.
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Racking Focus: Alex Ross Perry & The Counterintuitive Logic of Success
"Dance with the one you came with" is good advice not just for dances, but for art as well. Here are two examples from this week.
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Interview: Paul Schrader on 'The Canyons' and Dying Film Culture
"The two hour format is under siege." We talked to the legendary director about the changing definition of film, Vimeo, 'Mad Men,' and the myth of the communal filmgoing experience.
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Racking Focus: Playing the Long Game With Shorts
Many people are saying that micro-budget features are the new shorts. They're wrong.
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Interview: Nicholas Winding Refn On Personal Genre Cinema
Nicholas Winding Refn’s films are far more personal than the typical genre film – in fact, they may not be genre films at all.
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