TO adapt a novel for the screen, filmmakers almost always need to be ruthless.
When you can walk around and through VR instead of just watching it through the window of a screen, filmmakers must reconceptualize their stories to work from any angle and nudge your focus to the action.
The signatures of the mockumentary — knowing nods to the camera and interviews with an off-screen filmmaker — date back to 1984 and "This Is Spinal Tap," the imagined documentary about an imaginary rock band.
Best known as the mid-00s videogame-to-screen filmmaker who brought us the admittedly forgettable "Alone in the Dark," "Postal" and multiple "Bloodrayne" installments, Boll should have laid to rest the viability of the shift from chips and consoles to the multiplex.
The museum's director, Michael Govan, explained that "While it's impossible to screen a filmmaker's career all at once in an exhibition, the nature of a museum's gallery spaces gives the viewer the unique opportunity to wander through the filmmaker's mind, his creative process and the meaning of his work, and to make comparisons and contrasts between the works".
The true story of the day Brian Wells walked into a bank with a homemade bomb strapped around his neck, and the convoluted quest to find the person responsible, comes to the small screen in filmmaker Trey Borzillieri's diabolically devised four-episode first season.
When it comes to politics and the big screen, American filmmakers tend to fall into two camps, the grossly exploitative and the earnestly instructive.
This chapter is being portrayed on screen by filmmakers like Mr. Daniels and Mr. McQueen, and written in journalism, fiction and memoirs by a rising generation of African-American writers that includes Ta-Nehisi Coates, Kiese Laymon and Jesmyn Ward.
After seeing it (I saw it in a private screening — the filmmaker is a friend of mine), I lost any glimmer of temptation I might ever have had to augment my household with a primate.
Events for the 50th anniversary of the bombing will include a screening of filmmaker Spike Lee's new documentary, "Four Little Girls," and a memorial service on Sunday scheduled to include U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
Possibly the person who defines Israeli short format is Etgar Keret and his stories have been adapted as shorts for the big screen by filmmakers in Israel as well as around the world.
