Before There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson made a trilogy of films – Boogie Nights, Magnolia and Punch-Drunk Love – that were beautiful (and sometimes very eccentric) love letters to the San Fernando Valley. Doug Liman’s 1996 indie comedy Swingers showed LA as a cool, jazzy town ...
A performance not nominated but which should have been was screen legend Trevor Howard’s work as the town priest, a magnificently complicated character with more personal authority than anyone else in the film. As a pastor myself, I could relate to his character very strongly, and I felt ...
The last 3 months have been insane as our production team has been working incredibly hard to prepare for our 1-month shoot. Producers and assistant directors locking in dozens of locations while handling mountains of paperwork, art directors driving all over town to find props and build sets,...
Shot entirely in the city in 2023,“Lost & Found in Cleveland”is a dramedy about five people whose lives intersect when America’s favorite antiques appraisal show comes to town. The movie tells the stories of a mailman (Dennis Haysbert) with a collection of seemingly ordinary vases; a pro...
Lights, camera, action at places we love to recognize from the small and silver screens. Here is a great selection of recognizable locations from some of our favorite films.
"when you wish" michael sieve 2nd place. screenplay: "give my love to rose" steven canfield crowley 3rd place. screenplay: "gone fishing" kevin machate 4th place. screenplay: "promise me" yoelena tkebuchava 5th place. screenplay: "revenge of the sin" christiaan kutlik finalist. screenplay:...
I’m a bit old-fashioned in that I love film, real film – and, although I very much appreciate the boundless options which‘digital’offers, both in production and post-production, I worry that young people entering the business today haven’t been tutored in the fine art of using actua...
Jack Alva. In 2014 he co-starred in 'The Brittany Murphy Story' with Eric Petersen and Amanda Fuller. Justin came to director Donavan Clark, a man he had once met before on a baseball feature entitled "Undrafted", after hearing of his casting call. Even without this bias, Justin wowed ...
First screening events across the country will take place in San Francisco, Boston, Wichita, and Birmingham When We Arrive As Flowers, Resist: The Resistance Revival Chorus, Loving Town San Francisco IndieFest’s social justice-focused touring film festival Resistance of Vision announced the film li...
Date of Death:August 12, 2014 Number of films that Lauren Bacall made with Humphrey Bogart:6 The Actress I wasn’t planning on adding Bacall to ‘The Usual Suspects’ portion of the blog for quite a while. Much like when I savedCasablancafor my final Bogart film review, Bacall was going...