MovieMaker. 60.

From its new issue, MovieMaker offers a few features and, almost more interesting, really, several "Hands On Pages." First, the features:

• Atom Egoyan offers ten "Golden Rules." Example: "9. Film directing is a strange and neurotically-inspired vocation. It sometimes involves coaxing and/or manipulating people to do things they wouldn’t consider doing otherwise."

• David Fear talks with Thomas Vinterberg about Dear Wendy: "I am, by nature, a sentimental fool and I come from a more naive perspective.... But I think that, when it's done right, there isn’t a better way of dealing with a social issue like gun control than by making it the subject of a satire."

• "Before the hurricane, New Orleans was a movie boomtown with an infrastructure capable of supporting an increasing number and variety of projects." Dave Roos looks into what happens now.

• Sharon Knolle: "New York's Made in NY program - with new tax credit incentives, vendor discount programs and free advertising for films that complete 75 percent of their filming in the city - has kicked off a moviemaking renaissance in New York City."

• What's the appeal of Asian horror in the West? Bryan Reesman asks around. Tartan Video's Tony Borg: "There aren't sweet little resolutions to these movies, and that's why they stick with you." Elite Entertainment's Vini Bancalari: "Many of these films are shot so beautifully, you forget you're watching horror."

Hands On:

• Nancy Hendrickson talks Catherine Hardwicke from her first inclinations to direct through to what sort of films she might turn to next. Also: Hardwicke's "Things I've Learned as a Moviemaker."

• Dan Lybarger talks with actor-turned-director Keith Gordon, who's currently working with Ethan Hawke on Billy Dead. Then, Gordon's "Things."

• Bob Fisher talks with cinematographer Don Burgess, currently working on Frank Marshall's Antarctica (evidently now called Eight Below). And Burgess's "Things."

• Composer John Ottman only edits for Bryan Singer and is, even now, bracing himself for Superman Returns. Alison Veneto meets him. Ottman's "Things."

• Jennifer M Wood talks with Robert Brinkmann about Stephen Tobolowsky's Birthday Party and digital tech in general. Brinkmann's "Things."

• Wood also meets Susan Albershardt, Florida's state film commissioner with the Governor's Office of Film & Entertainment. Here, instead of "Things," MM offers a helpfully linked-up list of state film offices.

Posted by dwhudson at November 28, 2005 8:25 AM