Dramatic Experience 'the bomb' Shakes Up 360-Degree Moviegoing
For 'the bomb' filmmakers, the only way to move audiences out of apathy was to put them in the middle of an explosion. For anyone born in the past 40 years, the atomic bomb can seem like an antiquated...
View ArticleFinding the 'One Miserable Tiny Spark' That Experimental Legend Lucrecia...
Lucrecia Martel is back—and she wants you to be uncomfortable. The purpose of cinema for director Lucrecia Martel has never been escapism. Her films have been consistently disruptive, works that jolt...
View ArticleWhy We Kept Our TV Show Release a 'Secret'
Will this experiment in self-distribution pay off? [Editor's note: No Film School asked Dan Schoenbrun to write about the unorthodox distribution of his TV series 'The Eyeslicer.'] I think I might be...
View ArticleTV & Film Genres List: A Comprehensive Study and Guide
Film and TV genres affect who watches your work, how it's classified, and even how it's reviewed. So how do you decide what you're writing? And which genres to mash-up? The secret is in the tropes....
View ArticleWatch PTA's Thom Yorke Music Video
Paul Thomas Anderson, Thom Yorke, and Netflix walk into a bar... Writing and directing short films are all the rage right now. Thanks to the rise in digital platforms like Netflix and Quibi, consumers...
View ArticleIt's Been 10 Years Since 'The Tree of Life' Debuted: Nature or Grace?
Are you taking the path of nature or grace? The Tree of Life premiered in competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where it was awarded the Palme d'Or. Everyone was buzzing about the new Terrence...
View Article'Hausu' Is the Elevated Version of 'Jaws'—Let Us Explain
Nobuhiko Obayashi’s answer to Spielberg’s Jaws is a revolutionary piece of cinema that you must watch. After Steven Spielberg’s Jaws became the highest-grossing film of all time in 1975, becoming the...
View ArticleDissecting the Experimental Genre in Film and TV
Are you ready to experiment inside the confines of film and television? Have you ever been watching a show or movie that doesn't seem t conform to your expectations of what the medium should hold?...
View Article7 Lessons We Learned From Experimental Documentaries
How does this medium of storytelling affect all of cinema? It’s not every day that we watch a film or TV show that changes or challenges our understanding of what is possible in the medium. Those...
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