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Kogonada: From Vimeo Essayist to Hollywood auteur
How a Vimeo essayist turned film theory into filmmaking and made it to Hollywood.
Oct 30
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The Anatomy of a Great Trailer
From hype to heartbeat: Inside the craft of selling a film in 150 Seconds
Oct 24
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Could AI save Springfield?
Four decades in, The Simpsons is confronting its most human problem and its most digital solution.
Oct 16
5
One Edit After Another: Andy Jurgensen’s Masterclass in Momentum
How Paul Thomas Anderson’s editor made a 2½-hour epic feel like 25 minutes.
Oct 10
3
How a Bronx Kid Infiltrated Lucas Skywalker Ranch (Pt 1)
Before digital rewrote Hollywood, a rock ’n’ roll roadie from the Bronx ended up at the center of the movie business.
Oct 3
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The Sean Baker Cut: Inside an Oscar-winning edit
Inside the painstaking process that turned chaos into cinematic history
Oct 2
2
September 2025
Should directors edit?
The case for (and against) keeping the scissors in the director’s hands.
Sep 25
8
The 17-Year-Old YouTuber Who Became A24’s Youngest Director
The "summer job" that shook Hollywood
Sep 18
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The Other Coppola: From Eleanor’s Apocalypse to the Ghost of Megalopolis
Chaos, creation, and the cost of being a Coppola.
Sep 11
2
The 10:01 Rule: How a Digital Stopwatch Accidentally Built the Creator Economy
Inside the stopwatch that turned filler into a business model.
Sep 4
5
August 2025
How a Stolen Print of Jerry Lewis’s Lost Nazi Clown Film Resurfaced 45 Years Later
The bizarre afterlife of Jerry Lewis’s forbidden Holocaust clown movie and the thief who claims to have kept it alive.
Aug 28
3
The Lost City of NLEs: How Lucasfilm Built and Buried EditDroid
From George Lucas’s editing lab to Avid’s rise, a dive into the lost machine that shaped modern post.
Aug 22
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