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As for dictating to the audience what they're meant to see and synthesize about her feature debut Orphans, Ry Russo-Young remains in large part hands-off. "I kind of prefer to let the audience bring their thoughts to it," she writes after our initial phone interview.

Taking out some time to reflect on Orphans, cinematographer Ku-Ling Siegel here talks about realism, working with limitations and the importance of resourcefulness.

To some extent screenwriter Steven Brooks' Apparition developed out of location. "Having lived in Savannah for a few years I always thought it was the perfect setting for either a thriller or a horror movie because of the ambience," Brooks begins. "Also there is a mixture of the old...
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Scarlett Cinema's Karen Wang speaks with Sean Patrick McCarthy on topics of dance, the film school experience and the progression in, or lack thereof, issues of race in film.

"I love a good challenge," Caitlin McCarthy writes via e-mail, a sentiment that perhaps explains why the teacher by day, screenwriter and veteran novelist by night, continually travers...
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"I think I've always been a writer, you know a kid scribbling stories in spiral notebooks and so forth," Jennifer Deaton starts. "But I remember one moment distinctly in my acting class at Northwestern-- we were working on (Samuel Beckett), and my teacher said that as a person I had...
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Midway into the Fall movie season comes the first truly perfect film: Andrew Dominik’s The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. In episode 17, Lily and JM wax poetic on the beauty and brilliance of the film, its strong supporting cast, and, after his stellar performance in ...
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Scarlett Cinema's Pamela Kerpius catches up with filmmaker and SM staff writer Barry Jenkins about his debut feature, currently in production, Medicine for Melancholy. Read the article.

Confronting a lack of resolution about residuals for DVD and new media initiatives, the Writer's Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers hit an impasse last night, setting the WGA into its official strike this morning. Variety reports.

Medicine for Melancholy's producer Justin Barber locks himself in the post facility, and with six hours counting down, finds a way, cops flooding on scene, to get out. Read here.