On the Same Page
Earlier this year, I got a call from a friend of a friend—a former executive producer of a children’s television…
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What Rolled Up Must Come Down
Written by? Created by? Screenplay by? Screen credit can define a writer’s career—in fact, the exact words that rolled up…
Piecing It Together
Shortly after Jean-Luc Godard released Breathless in1960, an exasperated journalist said to the young director: “Surely you think that a…
On The Scene
New York cinephiles will endure a great deal of discomfort to see great independent films: the noise of the F…
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…
Back to Feature
A long time ago, in a film school far, far away (from NYU), a young man with big dreams and…
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…
Q/A: Ryan Gosling
Ryan Gosling brought me flowers when we met for this interview on a hot Sunday in July. Our earlier scheduled…
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…