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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Director David Slade on His First Shoot
Filmmaker Paul Stone has launched a great online interview series, “My First Shoot,” which features filmmakers talking about their first time on set as directors. What’s particularly interesting about it is the perspective the passing of time affords. These aren’t directors talking about the shoots they wrapped last week. No, in many cases these are experienced directors reflecting back, pulling from their memory banks, and constructing lessons that can only be gained by the perspective continued practice provides. An example is provided by the latest interviewee, Twilight Saga: Eclipse director David Slade. I interviewed Slade for Filmmaker during the Sundance […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 15, 2013 -
TRAGEDY IN SLOW MOTION: AMC’S BREAKING BAD
Here we are again, with part three in a series highlighting some of 2011’s most daring, innovative television. This week, I’ll be singing the praises of AMC’s consistently shocking and always riveting Breaking Bad. Indeed, there is no show on TV more unrelenting in its exploration of human misery than Breaking Bad. Created by former X-Files writer Vince Gilligan, the show stars Bryan Cranston as Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher who, after being diagnosed with cancer, begins cooking and distributing meth with the help of a burnout ex-student (Aaron Paul). If that premise sounds a bit too high-concept […]
by Jane Schoenbrun on Dec 22, 2011 -
THE BEGINNING OF MY DAVID SLADE INTERVIEW
The whole thing is in the new Filmmaker, which we just sent to the printer, but Hard Candy is opening this Friday and it’s an amazing first film, so I’m putting up the first part of my interview with director David Slade to whet your appetite for both the film and the magazine. Filmmaker: Having worked for years in commercials and music videos, how did Hard Candy wind up becoming your first feature?Slade: I’d been offered a lot of scripts, but this was the first thing that took me back to the roots of why I wanted to become a […]
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 11, 2006
