On The Scene
New York cinephiles will endure a great deal of discomfort to see great independent films: the noise of the F…
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What if nobody “gets” my film?
Dear Doc Doctor: Nobody seems to like my film—they say it’s unclear and hard to follow. Why aren’t they getting…
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Turning Books into Scripts
Scott Heim’s 1995 novel, Mysterious Skin, makes for an unlikely film. The story of two eight-year-olds from Kansas who are…
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Back to Feature
A long time ago, in a film school far, far away (from NYU), a young man with big dreams and…
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Sunday Night Muse
It’s Sunday night in Williamsburg, Brooklyn—the reigning annex of lower east side hipsterdom. Live jazz floats from the open windows…
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Making Room
I’m the director of the low-budget psychological thriller Room (2005), which premiered at Sundance and had its international debut in…
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Netflix and the afterlife of indies
For a documentary, Deadline (2004) was, by all accounts, a big success. The film, which profiled Illinois Governor George Ryan…
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From Cecil B. to Businessman
Will Keenan has done some crazy things to promote movies. He’s been hit by a car, threatened self-immolation, and climbed…
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Budgeting for archival footage
Dear Doc Doctor: How can I calculate how much archival footage I’ll need for my film, and how much it…