MovieMaker. 55.

Really late on this one, evidently. After all, the summer issue of MovieMaker seems to have been out for a month. Or so. Well:

• David Geffner: "Conventional wisdom would dictate that making a film half the planet wants to see must come down to a fantasy-driven spectacle wrapped inside a shining, if slightly garish, technological package. Or does it?"
• Bob Fisher: Laszlo Kovacs "found a niche shooting low-budget biker films that targeted the drive-in movie theater crowd... Dennis Hopper took notice and, in 1968, approached Kovacs about shooting an offbeat little movie for him called Easy Rider. The rest is cinematic history."
• Jennifer Soong: "Some critics have compared your sensibilities to David Lynch. Which movie-makers have influenced your work?" Richard Kelly: "Well, the two that I give most credit to would be Terry Gilliam and Peter Weir."
• Jennifer M Wood: "[T]he 25 best midnight movies - past, present and future."
• John Waters: "Having sex with any member of your cast is a bad idea - crew is better."

And then there are the online features, the talks with the makers. Jennifer M Wood handles four of these: Director Bronwen Hughes (great Spielberg story), writer-director Tod Williams (about adapting John Irving's A Widow for One Year, or rather, part of it for A Door in the Floor), "[p]art documentarians, part extreme sport enthusiasts, David McMahon and Lise Meloche," and Ryan Harper and Josh Jaggars talk about going digital with their film, 30 Miles.

Jennifer Strauss queries Slamdance co-founder Peter Baxter and Brian Malik talks to a guy with a title-and-a-half: David Tames, Program Director of Digital Filmmaking at Boston University’s Center for Digital Imaging Arts.

Posted by dwhudson at August 21, 2004 4:07 PM