An affectionate look back at Talking Heads' two theatrical films from the 1980s.
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Exclusive Interview: Legendary Exploitation Film Producer Sam Sherman (Part 2)
"We’d have a poster made for which no movie existed. We’d use that to get advance money from theater people around the country and then make the film. We went so far as to make phony stills."
Read More »Exclusive Interview: Legendary Exploitation Film Producer Sam Sherman (Part 1)
Exploitation movie producer/distributor Sam Sherman tells his story in Part One of this exclusive interview.
Read More »Austin Film Festival: Work in Progress – Story to Structure in Screenwriting
Screenwriters Ed Solomon and Max Borenstein took writers through the process, from coming up with ideas for films to writing and rewriting. For this session they were joined by guest panelist Meg LeFauve ('Inside Out,' 'The Good Dinosaur').
Read More »Austin Film Festival: Making Indie Films Takes a Team
It takes a team to make a movie, but you need to know more than how to assemble a team. You need to know how to help them work together and stay happy.
Read More »Austin Film Festival: Screenwriter Ed Solomon Reveals How ‘Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure’ Began
When 'Bill & Ted Face the Music' comes out in 2020, Solomon will have had a major release in each of the last five decades.
Read More »Movie Review: Horror Anthology ‘Holiday Hell’
This mixed bag of holiday-themed short stories isn't quite like getting coal in your stocking, but it never quite rises above predictability.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ and the ’60s Filmic Simulation
As the nostalgic references keep piling up, all the glamorous faces, sweaty outsiders, vibrant marquees, hot spots, and shindigs reverberate as though conjured up by a cinephile's melancholy spell.
Read More »Exclusive Interview: Filmmaker Linda Palmer on Her Quirky and Touching ‘Turnover’
This new film by writer/director Linda Palmer will make you love the characters. It's a quirky but charming story of people down on their luck who end up helping one another in spite of themselves.
Read More »NAB 2019: The Making of ‘Apollo 11’
Rarely does a documentary film not only relate past events, but along the way preserve the culture and set new standards for future filmmaking: Apollo 11, currently in theaters, does just that. At the 2019 NAB Show, the National Association of Broadcasters industry meetup in Las Vegas, April 5-11, filmmaker …
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