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GO TO >> A Tribute To Robert & Irwin Young @ Metrograph NYC

GO TO >> A Tribute To Robert & Irwin Young @ Metrograph NYC

Metrograph pays tribute to filmmakers and activists Robert and Irwin Young. Their father Al Young, founded DuArt, the NYC film processing lab. Irwin Young took over his fathers duties at DuArt, prioritizing projects by passionate but cash-strapped indie filmmakers, including Fessenden with HABIT and many other GEP films.

WATCH >> David Gulpilil retrospective now streaming

WATCH >> David Gulpilil retrospective now streaming

David Gulpilil, the late, legendary Yolngu actor who, beginning as a teenager with his very first film role in Nicolas Roeg’s WALKABOUT, redefined the the way that Indigenous people were represented in Australian cinema and became an international ambassador for the resilience and dignity of his culture.

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WATCH >> James Caan looks back on Michael Mann’s THIEF

WATCH >> James Caan looks back on Michael Mann’s THIEF

“I don’t mean to put writers down because without them, there’s no tale, but the words are pretty much secondary. I mean, they’re important to start the thing off, but when you look at film, it’s all about behavior. It’s real life, it’s something real, you’re not just talking words.”

BUY >> The Twilight World: A Novel by Werner Herzog

BUY >> The Twilight World: A Novel by Werner Herzog

The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda,
a Japanese soldier who defended a small island in the Philippines for
twenty-nine years after the end of World War II.
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GO TO >> The Films of Mike Leigh at Lincoln Center NYC
READ >> A Scrappier Model for Netflix Might Be More Sustainable

READ >> A Scrappier Model for Netflix Might Be More Sustainable

If you give artists a lot of creative freedom and a little money upfront but a big stake in the movie’s or TV show’s commercial success, more often than not the result will be both commercial (the filmmakers are incentivized to make films that will resonate with audiences) and artistically interesting (creative freedom!).

… As someone who has made both hits and flops, I’ve always thought it fundamentally unsustainable for a company to treat all participants as if they had made a hit before the project is even produced. – Jason Blum

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