Independent filmmaker Gloria Mercer joins us on this one to talk about movies made for the Hallmark and Lifetime TV channels. The focus is on their best-known output, their romantic comedies, and we had a lot of fun chatting about how and why they’re made, their style and structure, their politics, and what we can learn from them.
If you're curious to check them out for yourself, the two movies we dive deepest into are The Flight Before Christmas (Lifetime) and Bottled with Love (Hallmark) — both can be rented or purchased online.
Ep 10 - Pre-Code Montage feat. Peter Labuza
Episode 8 - Long Takes feat. Kathleen Hepburn & Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Episode 7 - The Hunger Games and Cinemascope
Episode 6 - King Hu's Kinetic Editing in Dragon Inn and Legend of the Mountain feat. Ryan Swen
Episode 5: Robert Altman, Zooms, and the Camera's Point of View
Episode 4: Self-Reflexivity and Perfect Blue feat. Paige Smith
Episode 3: Worldizing Sound and American Graffiti
Episode 2: Small Crews feat. Sophy Romvari
Episode 1: Contagion and Steven Soderbergh's Digital Cinematography
Episode 0: Welcome to Film Formally
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