Now & Then
Long before Super 8’s 40-year march from home movie to Kodak’s hot new kid, long before camcorders, and long before…
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American History X
With more than 25 museums and research centers and a collection of more than 142 million objects, the Smithsonian Institution…
Toward a Post-Theatre Age
For years, the holy grail of independent distribution was Miramax. Then mid-sized companies like ThinkFilm, Magnolia Pictures, and IFC Films…
Letter From the Editor – July 2006
Dear Readers, One day in early April I walked into the office to find four large burlap bags of mail….
Show Us Your Shorts
“I don’t know how big of a historian you are,” begins David Dundas, one of the founders of YouAreTV, a…
One-Two Punch
I thought that making Monster’s Ball was rough. I vowed upon wrapping that film that I would never make another….
On the Margins of the Multiplex
In 1973, a young, cinema-loving bohemian couple fled the high rents of Manhattan for the more affordable suburbs of Huntington,…
Making it on public TV
Dear Doc Doctor: How can I get my work onto public television? There are many doors into the labyrinthine world…
How Far We’ve Come
In 1988, 19-year-old Joanna Katz and her friend were abducted at gunpoint by five men who took turns raping, beating,…