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by Jim Hemphillin Filmmakingon Feb 26, 2021 Amy Holden Jones, Buried Alive, Frank Darabont, Otto Preminger, Rosebud, Slumber Party Massacre No director of the classical Hollywood studio era capitalized on hot-button social issues or pushed the boundaries of censorship as successfully as Otto Preminger, who scored artistic and commercial triumphs with a number of films (Anatomy of a Murder, The Moon is Blue, Advise… More Rosebud, Buried Alive and the Women Filmmakers of New World Pictures: Jim Hemphill’s Home Video Recommendations

by Martin Johnsonin Directors, Filmmaking, Interviewson Feb 23, 2021 Chadwick Boseman, Denzel Washington, George C. Wolfe, Jelly Roll Morton, Lanford Wilson, Viola Davis Black music. White privilege. Chicago. 1927. What could possibly go wrong? Indeed, nearly everything, and it’s chronicled with artful intensity in August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, the second in a cycle of ten plays that compassionately detail the 20th-century experiences of… More “… Once a Person’s Voice is Captured, They are Expendable”: Director George C. Wolfe on the Musical Histories of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

by Scott Macaulayin Filmmaker Videoson Feb 27, 2021 Khaite, Sean Baker, Sean Price Williams Inspired, he says, by Walter Hill and, as obvious from the title treatment, The Warriors title designer Dan Perri, Sean Baker (The Florida Project, Tangerine) has directed a blast of a fashion short for Khaite, a girl-gang fantasia evoking the cinema as well as streets of ’70s and ’80s New York.… More Watch: Sean Baker’s Short Film for Khaite’s Fall ’21 Collection

She’s probably best known for her Emmy-Nominated performance as FBI secretary Martha Hanson on FX’s critically acclaimed series The Americans, and now Alison Wright has breathed life into another complex character in yet another hit series—Ruth Wardle on TNT’s Snowpiercer. In this hour, she gives us a peek under the hood of her craft and we get… More Back to One, Episode 143: Alison Wright