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When offering their "Golden Rules," the lessons they've learned as filmmakers, to MovieMaker, past contributors have usually settled on around ten. Wim Wenders goes for 50.

In 1996, an Italian television network broadcast a colorized version of Fred Zinnemann's The Seventh Cross (1944). Zinnemann complained, but passed away the following year. His son took up the case, suing TV Internationale for breach of his father's moral rights and an Italian court ruled in his favor, even ordering all colorized versions be destroyed. Dave Roos examines the implications of the case and notes that "American moviemakers are better protected against unauthorized alterations to their films abroad than here on their native soil."

Robert M Goodman, with Matthew Power, take a detailed look at the latest HD cameras and Randee Dawn offers "10 rules for making it through post-production without going broke."

Those are the features on offer online from the Winter issue; but there's also a fresh batch of "Hands-on-Pages," interviews with filmmakers actually about filmmaking rather the usual profile fodder. Lily Percy, for example, talks with Brick writer-director Rian Johnson; each of these pages is, again, followed by the interviewee's "Things I've Learned as a Moviemaker." Here are Johnson's.

Jennifer M Wood asks writer-producer Bobby Moresco about collaboration with Paul Haggis on the screenplay for Crash. Moresco's "Things."

Jennifer Strauss talks with editor Meg Reticker, who's worked with James Mangold, Michael Moore and, most recently, Joey Lauren Adams, about why she sticks to indie projects. Reticker's "Things."

Alexis Buryk meets the director of administration and two deans at Columbia College Hollywood. Page Two here is MovieMaker's list of film education resources.

"Those lush mountaintops, spacious skies and vast American landscapes, all filmed in Calgary," notes Percy, referring to Brokeback Mountain. She meets Calgary Film Commissioner Beth Thompson. Page Two: MovieMaker's list of Film Offices.

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