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What film stock should I
use?
Where can I find professional
actors for free?
Has this idea I had for
a script been done before?
What are some good books
on cinematography
What's the right way to
format a screenplay?
It's hard enough to constantly
wonder why, in the first place, anyone would be messed up enough to want
to be a filmmaker. It's all the more infuriating when no one
takes your major seriously - everyone is a critic after all, and what more
is there to making a film than picking up a movie camera? Yeah right.
Having been a film student
for three years, I know that there is a lot to learn about the technicalities
of the medium before one can even bother with expressing a vision. I had
to reach a point when my "critic" friends were absolutely right: there
is nothing more to making a film than picking up a movie camera.
It was only then that I, as a filmmaker, could even begin to see!
The
Path to Enlightenment:
First, mountains and rivers
are mountains and rivers.
Then, mountains and rivers
are no longer mountains
and rivers.
Finally, mountains and rivers
are once again mountains
and rivers.
Here, you will find resources
- books, organizations, websites - that you can turn to for help with your
questions as a student filmmaker. I realize that such questions can range
from the highly technical to the most general, so in every section (Pre-Production,
Production, and Post-Production), I have aimed to be as useful as possible:
I have tried to be comprehensive without letting the sections degenerate
into masterlists of other websites that would take decades to surf. If
you know of a site that definitely belongs here, please email me.
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S P O T L I G H T
J E A N - L U C
G O D A R D
Interviewer: Do
you believe that the work of Jean-Luc Godard has exercised an influence
on your own work or else on your imagination?
Jacques Derrida: Not
the least influence. Excuse the brevity and brutal sincerity of the reply.
Perhaps given the time and the forces, I might say more, but I am
not so sure about that.
Regardless of the opinion of Jacques
Derrida, the work of Jean-Luc Godard has been astoundingly influential
in the world of art cinema. Legend has it that Chantal Akerman, perhaps
the most important woman filmmaker ever, started making movies
after she saw Godard's Pierrot
Le Fou
So here
is more about Godard.
Email Jean-Luc Godard at jlg@valgus.com
Future Spotlights: Yasujiro Ozu,
Andrei Tarkovsky, Alfred Hitchcock, Wong Kar-Wai.
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