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as screenwriters, we need to be aware of risking the attention spans of our audience.
Blake Snyder • Save the Cat
there is something in the quality of Ruiz's imagination that summons up those primal Hollywood pleasures, something that connects to our first film-going experiences, when we weren't old enough to follow the plots and still too young to care. Lucas and Spielberg pursue these same memories in their films, but they're too literal minded, too committe
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Filmtrepreneurs need to think about minimizing risk as much as possible.
Alex Ferrari • Rise of the Filmtrepreneur: How to Turn Your Independent Film into a Profitable Business
I was a person who’d watched a lot of movies, sure. I had taken a couple of film theory classes in college because it seemed like something you should do if you wore as much black as I did.
Claire Dederer • Monsters
Rene Daalder
renedaalder.comAnalyst or Moralist?
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INVOCATION: Dear readers, help us to deliver ourselves from our enslavement to production values, our ridiculous attachment to slickness which makes filmgoing in most sectors an exclusive subscription to the puerile pastimes and philosophies of stupid, vulgar millionaires.
Jonathan Rosenbaum • Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition
In 1976, artist and critic
set the art world abuzz with a three-part essay published in Artforum . Titled “Inside the White Cube,” it gave a catchy new name to a mode of display that had long ago achieved dominance in museums and commercial galleries.
Abigail Cain • How the White Cube Came to Dominate the Art World
