William Blake is a household name, or not far from it, but things get more complicated when it comes to professional description. He was a poet, a painter, and a …
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Training
How Sylvester Stallone Rescued the First Rambo Film With a Radical Recut, Cutting It From 3½ Hours to 93 Minutes
About a year ago, a certain kind of cinephile took note of obituaries for Ted Kotcheff, a television-turned-film director who worked steadily from the mid-fifties to the mid-nineties. Even to …
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Behind Scenes
How ‘Circles’ Is Using Radical Transparency and an Equity Model to Build an Indie Feature
For years, NFS podcast alum Sam Baron has been using filmmaking as a form of personal excavation. Across a body of short films he has written, directed, and starred in, …
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Lifestyle
‘A radical act’: the rich history behind the centuries-long tradition of Black family reunions | Black US culture
Following emancipation, Jack Johnson had one major goal: to reunite his family. Johnson had been enslaved in North Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi, and had 10 children with JoAnna, his …