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The Movie That Wasn’t Supposed to Exist
What does it really take to kill a finished movie? Not a flop… or a script that never got off the ground… or a project that burned through…
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The Odyssey Comes Home
Here’s a question worth asking: why did a nearly three-hour, R-rated movie based on a poem older than reading itself just shake up the global cultural zeitgeist? Not…
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What We Learned Teaching Astoria About Movies
Here’s a number that should not be true for a beginner filmmaking class in a town of about ten thousand people: nearly two dozen. That’s how many showed…
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What Astoria Knows About the Movies (That Hollywood Forgot)
There’s a question worth asking: why here? Not in a self-deprecating way. We know why we love this town. But from a purely logistical standpoint, why would a…
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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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