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This has been a long week for the thousand monkeys and their thousand typewriters who make the blog for the dumb filmmaker. They are demanding a day off and two more bananas per monkey, per day. So, being a good

This week, Waitress, written and directed by Adrienne Shelly is being released. Years ago I knew her, as Adrienne Levine. This was before she became famous as an independent film actress, writer and director. Waitress is getting good reviews and

A hallmark of the bad student film is bad casting choices. A 20-year-old student casts his 21-year-old roommate to play a 40-year-old father, and then he casts his 18-year-old girlfriend to play that character’s daughter. What you have on your

Our first thought was that we probably lost all the film we shot that day and will need to re-shoot- on our dime. Secondly, we needed to get another camera ASAP so we could finish the food shots; third, we

So we were shooting a 30-second commercial for Molly McButter. (You know it has BIG butter taste, without a bit of butter fat-says the jingle which the ad agency spent a mint on,) It was a nice spot- live action

I saw a great film over the weekend. It is called Infamous and it is the other film about Truman Capote writing In Cold Blood. I like Capote and think Philip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener are very good, but

The wheel that my mouse runs on that gets the filmmaker101 house onto the internet is on the fritz (or I am out of cheese) so there will be no post until it is repaired. Stay Tuned. PeterH

This is Tim Curry from Rocky Horror. Sorry for the confusion. I have been admonished. This is Tim Burton, the film director- Batman, etc…. I know the difference between the two men, thank you. About 15 years ago I was

Al Gore’s internet (or is it the Information Superhighway? The Interweb?) does a fantastic job connecting people who would otherwise not know each other. Hardly news, butI am still amazed by it. A friend of mine from the gym told