• This Week In Trailers: Magical Universe, Björk: Biophilia Live, Layover, Sacro GRA

    Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week…

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  • How To Shoot A Nightclub Scene Using Almost No Money

    This year at the Seattle International Film Festival, I saw a movie called Layover, which tells the story of how a young Parisian named Simone gets stuck in LA on an extended layover and ends up learning more about her hopes and dreams than she had anticipated. Not only was I impressed with the film, I…

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  • SIFF 2014: Making A Movie For $6,000

    This weekend, I saw a movie at the Seattle International Film Festival that had a budget of $6,000. Joshua Caldwell's Layover, which had its world premiere here, was shot in 11 days in Los Angeles and takes place during the course of a single evening, as a itinerant frenchwoman Simone (played by Nathalie Fay) re-connects with a…

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