Author: lafilmcenter
China: First Law on Film Industry Effective in March
by: Emma Wei the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) passed the Film Industry Promotion Law, the first national law regulating the country’s [more…]
Get Out is a horror film about benevolent racism.
By Alissa Wilkinson The premise of Get Out has been done before: A young black man (Daniel Kaluuya) goes home with his white girlfriend (Allison Williams) [more…]
How LA LA LAND is made
by David Bordwell The formal method is fundamentally simple. It’s the return to craft (masterstvo). Not how it was made. We’ll get “The Making of [more…]
Will the Movie Industry Contract in 2017?
by: Adam Leipzig Movies are going gangbusters, and one studio—Disney—achieved a record-breaking $7 billion global box office last year. What could possibly go wrong? According [more…]
AP: Too quiet on the set; filming accidents often go untold
BY ANTHONY McCARTNEY LOS ANGELES (AP) — As hundreds of names scrolled up the screen after 2012′s “The Avengers,” moviegoers who remained glued to their [more…]
Cinematic Sympathy with a Storytelling Attitude
by Maziar Sheibanifar In Eternal Children (2006), Pouran Derakhshandeh has a sympathetic attitude towards children with Down syndrome, although the storytelling is not very strong.This [more…]
The Film Industry’s Problem Of Gender Inequality Is Worse Than You Think
By Martha T.S. Laham, Contributor Most people would be surprised to learn that gender segregation plays out at different levels of the film industry, where [more…]
Sexism in the Film Industry: Blockbusters vs. Indies
By Sophie Bennett, Contributing Writer Between the amorphous concept of Hollywood and the innumerable independent producers of television and movies, the film and TV industries [more…]
Netflix and kill: Is streaming hurting movie theaters?
by: Alexandra Gibbs Having transformed how we watch TV, online streaming giants like Netflix have begun to put other parts of the entertainment industry to [more…]