Francis Ford Coppola- The DGA Interview - Cover: Photograph by Mark Estes
DGA Quarterly Features
DGA Quarterly - The Beginning
DGA Quarterly - The End
Summer 2007 - Volume 3, Number 2
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DGA Quarterly Feature Stories
Interview with James Burrows- click here to to read.


The DGA Interview:
The Jimmy Show

With series like Taxi, Cheers, Will & Grace and Frasier, James Burrows raised the sitcom to high art. His secret? Respecting the craft.

By Howard Rosenberg

The new face of 3D- click here to to read.

The Next Dimension

3-D is roaring back—and it’s not the clunky, campy version from the ’50s. With new technology, 3-D is becoming a serious tool for filmmakers.

By Alex Ben Block

Everything you wanted to know about the new technology, but were afraid to ask. - click here to to read.

Future Shock

Almost everything you wanted to know about the new technology, but were afraid to ask. In the first of an ongoing series, we break down the changes in entertainment and the way film and TV will be delivered.

By Steve Pond

Director Paul Greengrass applies the techniques he learned in the trenches of British documentary to real-life dramas- click here to to read.

To Tell the Truth

United 93 director Paul Greengrass has applied the techniques he learned in the trenches of British documentary to both real-life dramas and Hollywood pictures.

By John Patterson

The director’s team on the daytime drama One Life to Live  - click here to to read.

Inside the Soap Machine

The director’s team on the daytime drama One Life to Live helps churn out an amazing six shows a week and shoot 140 pages a day.

By Ann Farmer

Nancy Meyers on Billy Wilder's The Apartment - click here to to read.


In the Screening Room:
Business Affairs

Billy Wilder’s The Apartment is a film that inspired Nancy Meyers. The director chats about what makes it so special for her.

By Amy Dawes

Director Jimmy Moore calls the shots that bring the NBA playoffs into your living room - click here to to read.

Show Time

Inside a production truck deep in the bowels of the Staples Center, director Jimmy Moore calls the shots that bring the NBA playoffs into your living room with startling clarity.

By David Davis

On the sets of Alfred Hitchcock - click here to to read.

Master of Suspense

Alfred Hitchcock always claimed that, for him, shooting was the least interesting part of filmmaking. But in a rare series of set shots, he appears totally engaged with cast and crew.


DGA Quarterly - Beginning Section
On the Job With… Windy City AD, stage-bound in Nashville, Lost 2nd in Hawaii. - click here to to read.

Profiles
On the Job With…

Windy City AD, stage-bound in Nashville, Lost 2nd in Hawaii.

By David Geffner

Kasi Lemmons had to use all her cinematic tricks to shoot Talk to Me, a period biopic of a trash-talking, Washington, D.C. deejay. - click here to read

Independent Voice
Makin' It Real

Kasi Lemmons had to use all her cinematic tricks to shoot Talk to Me, a period biopic of a trash-talking, Washington, D.C. deejay.

By Margy Rochlins

Warner Bros. Chairman and CEO Barry Meyer surveys the business. - click here to read
10 Questions
The View From the Top

From tentpoles to cellphones, Warner Bros. Chairman and CEO Barry Meyer surveys the business.

The director of Night at the Museum takes lessons he learned about helping actors to new extremes. - Click here to read
Funny Business
Off-Camera Humiliation

The director of Night at the Museum takes lessons he learned about helping actors to new extremes.

By Shawn Levy

Arthur Hiller - A look at the DGA Past President- Click here to read
Legends of the Guild
Arthur Hiller

A look at the former DGA President.

By Jesse Hiestand

Ang Lee explains how he shot his famous treetop battle in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - click here to read

Shot to Remember
Flying Tiger

Ang Lee explains how he shot his famous treetop battle in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

By Robert Abele


DGA Quaterly - The End section
Critic's Corner - click here to to read.


Critic’s Corner
What's The Hurry?

The critic for the Christian Science Monitor wonders why directors don’t take their time to tell a story anymore.

By Peter Rainer

DVD Classics - click here to to read.


DVD Classics
Heroes and Villains

Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns featured iconoclastic heroes, broad landscapes and unforgettable music.

By Gary Giddins

Books - click here to to read.

Books
Kubrick, Hitch, Valenti and Disney

By John Patterson

Out of the Past - click here to to read.

Out of the Past
Wrong Number?

Roman Polanski scares the dickens out of Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby.


Editorial Staff
Editorial Staff