The Liberation of Cinema

For me, the two great liberators of cinema are John Cassavetes and Jean-Luc Godard. Why do I call them “liberators”? Because they both took movies from the studios to the streets. They revolutionized how we make films and demonstrated that all you need to...

A Screenplay Reading

It seems a long time ago that I sat down with a group of actors and read through the screenplay for The Big Something. But it was only last December. We crowded the lobby of Phoenix’s Space 55 and played through what would be Running Wild’s first feature....