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Big Art, Little Debt

Was a time when the filmmaker’s strategy began with the gamble of maxed out credit cards and (hopefully) ended with the win of an acquisition bidding war

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The Extended Take

Just found this fantastic article from Mike Le at Geek Week highlighting the 20 Greatest Extended Takes in Movie History, complete with embedded Videos.

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The Movie Title Stills Collection

You’ve probably gathered that we’re more than a little keen on movie title sequences here at DN; something about text making its way across the

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Viral Magic

Viral video seems to be one of the most popular methods of advertisement in recent years and hitting the internet with a bit of video trickery seems to be a

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Mindfuck Movies

Matthew Baldwin takes a look at films that may well bake your noggin.

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Yes to nofilmschool

I’m sure I wasn’t the only one saddened at the announcement that Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo and Zachary Lieberman vehicle, The West Side was going on

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Sight and Sound's best online videos of 2009

I think it’s all too obvious by now, that here at Directors Notes we bloody love a list! Well Sight and Sound love to pander to our needs, they’ve

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Documentary, News

The Vice Guide to Liberia

As part of their ongoing Vice Guide to Travel series which sees, “correspondents from VBS and Vice magazine dispatched around the world to visit the

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Back to Back to the Future

Due to the moody winter weather, Film Friends Forever had to put their Back to the Future event on ice (see what I did there!). However, no need to despair as

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44 Inch Website

Feature film websites can often be pretty unimaginative things, but every now and then one comes along and provides a bit of a surprise. This is certainly the

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This Decade is About the Filter

Lance Weiler has a written a great article on filtering the social web for film over at Filmmaker Magazine.

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Animation, Art & Fashion, News

The Third and The Seventh

The short film has taken many forms and styles through the years and with the rapid development of technologies and software over the past decade or so, we

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