Ken Burns: What makes a great story?

What makes a great story? For legendary filmmaker Ken Burns, the answer is both complicated and personal.

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Famous Directors Talk About Future of Cinema in 1982. [Wim Wenders - Room 666 (1982]

Wim Wenders consulted fifteen of his colleagues for their thoughts on the future of cinema. Listen to Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michelangelo Antonioni & others

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And Introducing… Famous Faces in Their Film Debuts #actors

Starring (in order of appearance): Jack Nicholson, Johnny Depp, Nicolas Cage, Anthony Edwards, Eric Stoltz, Woody Harrelson, Wesley Snipes, John Krasinski, Zach Braff, Jon Hamm, Ted Danson, Whoopi Goldberg, Mark Wahlberg, Madonna, Matthew McConaughey, Renee Zellweger, Jack Black, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert Duvall, Rob Lowe, Shirley MacLaine, Sylvester Stallone, Emma Thompson, Sharon Stone, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Richard Pryor, Jonah Hill, Matt Damon, Halle Berry, Robert DeNiro, Woody Allen, Tom Selleck, Eddie Murphy, Kevin Bacon.

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Fountain | A markup language for screenwriting. | Check it.

Fountain works in any text editor on almost any device. There's nothing to buy or download.

Just pick your favorite text editor. Some screenwriters like Google Docs. Others prefer TextMate, or iaWriter, or vim. It even works with built-in apps like Notepad and TextEdit.

To write in Fountain, just start typing. For elements like scene headings and character names, follow Fountain's really simple syntax rules.

The big difference between writing in a text editor and a dedicated screenwriting app like Final Draft is that elements like dialogue won't automatically indent. In Fountain, the formatting comes later.

Don't worry about it. Just type.

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Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod

Comic author Rob Reid unveils Copyright Math (TM), a remarkable new field of study based on actual numbers from entertainment industry lawyers and lobbyists.

 

 

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