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SURVIVING FILM SCHOOL: ONE VETERAN'S STORY

By | February 2000

What is the attraction of film school? Buoyed in part by the well-publicized tales of the recent anyone-can-make-a-hit-film æsthetic popularized by such cheapo blockbusters as “Clerks” and “The Blair Witch Project,” more and more young students are choosing to enter into the incestuously cloistered micro-society of the film school…

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