Word: mainstreaming
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...made Hollywood movies. Why come back to making independent films? Paul Moore, Boston I was really curious about how the studios worked, how mainstream movies were made and how I could use my sensibility within the studio system. Now I've come back to the indies because I got on that treadmill and I couldn't get off for a while...
...What advice would you give to aspiring Asian-American filmmakers who may feel ostracized from the mainstream? Jennifer Chun, Wellesley, Mass. I wouldn't try to deal with feeling ostracized. Just ask yourself, Why do you want to make films? If there's a story you really want to tell, then there are ways you can make that film...
...believes that Republicans convinced many Southerners that Democrats don't share their values because of hot-button culture issues like guns--he doesn't mention race--but he has an A rating from the NRA, and he considers himself the essence of Mississippi values. "I'm a mainstream Democrat, a rural Democrat, a middle-of-the-road Democrat," he says...
...creative peak (1959 to 1967). More to the point, “Contempt,” released in 1963, stands apart from a good portion of his other work from the period if for no other reason than it simply feels more palatable to today’s mainstream film audience. The soundtrack, scored by Georges Delerue, builds and sweeps with an epic romanticism that self-consciously apes the conventions of contemporary dramatic film. The cinematography, overseen by perennial Godard collaborator Raoul Coutard, had rarely looked more breathtaking—not only is the camera finally still (his earlier films...
...basso profundo bluster, Ventura waged a campaign well within the mainstream of Minnesota political thinking. Outsiders view the state as a bastion of liberalism--witness Eugene McCarthy, Vice Presidents Humphrey and Mondale--but insiders disagree. Carleton College's Schier says Minnesota "is actually a quirky populist state. It gave 24% of its vote during the 1992 presidential election to Ross Perot." Ventura's fiscal conservatism--no tax increases, the return of all future state budget surpluses to taxpayers--struck a responsive chord. So did his moderate-to-libertarian views on keeping government from meddling unduly in private lives...