Irvine Film Festival

Becoming Iconic

By Alan Ng | May 2021

Neal Thibedeau’s Becoming Iconic really could be called Directing Big Studio Films for Dummies. That sounds bad, but it’s actually a fascinating treatise on big-budget…

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Neal Thibedeau's Becoming Iconic really could be called Directing Big Studio Films for Dummies. That sounds bad, but it's actually a fascinating...

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The fable of The Scorpion and the Frog has appeared in countless television shows and movies, and quite often during a recent Presidential election. It’s...

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As a memorial to the 100th anniversary of Armenian Genocide, the film Map of Salvation, director Aram Shahbazyan tells the story of five women, who...

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As I sit here, thinking about Victorian supernatural mystery, The Isle by Tori and Matthew Butler Hart, I confess I’m an oafish American. I once received...

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As human beings, there are certain ideas that are universal and simple in concept, but in execution requires us to go beyond what is comfortable. One idea...