New Book Goes Inside Studio Ghibli with Hayao Miyazaki
Steve Alpert's book comes advertised as a business memoir, though you may find yourself grinning more often than annotating. For 15 years, starting in 1996, the American headed...
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Read About the Asian American Screenplays that Didn’t Get produced
In Sonali Mehta’s television crime drama “Fifty Thousand,” a widowed Indian woman starts an illicit green card-marriage brokerage business to make ends meet. But an encounter with an...
How Does Martin Scorsese Use the Colour Red in His Films?
Filmmakers use colour theory to help set the mood for their work. Lots of colors "mean" different things. You can buy into this stuff or not, but there's no denying...
How Horror Filmmakers Succeed (and Fail) at Using Darkness in Their Movies
As children, darkness held everything that made us fearful of the world around us. Horror filmmakers know this, which is why they use it to terrify us in...
How to Recreate the Look of ‘Joker’ on a Small Budget
Todd Phillips' Joker was a massive box office and critical success. Part of the reason it was such a hit was that it really focused on the reality...
The 25 Best Cinematography Books for 2020
Cinematography is the backbone of cinema. In a visual medium, you need the best person controlling the camera, working in collaboration with the writer and director to translate...