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The Town That Kept Everything
There’s a version of small-town history where the past gets cleared away to make room for whatever comes next. The Victorian houses come down for ranch-style sprawl. The…
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The Women in the Room Where It Happened
There’s a version of the New Hollywood story you’ve probably heard. Scorsese, Coppola, Spielberg, Lucas, Altman… the movie brats and mavericks who blew up the old studio system…
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The New Blueprint: Why Hollywood’s Risk Aversion is the Indie Filmmaker’s Secret Weapon
Take a walk down the Astoria Riverwalk on a moody afternoon, and it’s easy to feel the ghosts of cinema past. We live in a town that practically…
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The Grammar Nobody Taught You
Did you know that you speak a secret second language? You absorbed it in darkened living rooms and multiplexes and —if you’re lucky enough— maybe even drive-in back…
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FILM 1 is Open for Registration
We’ve been building toward this one for a while. And now, finally, here it is: FILM 1: Introduction to Cinema — the first course in the APS Film School —…
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Nobody Trusts Anybody: What The Thing Knows About Us That We’d Rather It Didn’t
There is a line in John Carpenter’s The Thing that has no business being as relevant as it is in 2025. MacReady, alone, recording into a tape deck like a…
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