With Hollywood living in a time of franchise excess—Marvel, DC, Avatar, anyone?—the "movies are dead" chorus is growing louder and louder. Film's unlikely hope? A quirky, brilliant wave of directors who are churning out microbudget features that are pushing what's possible with minuscule funding. The do-it-yourself approach to building a filmmaking career is far from new. But as the proverbial party has shrunk, advances in filmmaking technology have made it easier for upstarts to create a party just as good as the industry's. |
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Fancy or fuss-free, there's something for everyone on this list. |
| According to author and journalist Jeff Sharlet, "the old ways aren't going to work." |
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José Andrés got his big start as a chef at Ferran Adrià's elBulli in Spain, the original temple of molecular gastronomy. He immigrated to the U. S. from Spain in 1991. Today the José Andrés Group operates more than thirty restaurants including Jaleo, minibar, and several Bazaars, a kind of Spanish cuisine wonderland—Washington D.C. and New York get theirs this year. World Central Kitchen, the relief organization Andrés founded to help feed people in crisis, is the biggest food-aid organization in Ukraine. "My dream is to become local everywhere, but the world is too big to do that, right?" |
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It's hard to make a puffer vest look cool, but the rapper does it with ease. |
| The one way to guarantee breezy, beautiful sleep. |
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In keeping with our new role as employment counselor to ambitious, career-minded young conservatives—you will recall that on Monday we advised up-and-coming lawyers not to take on the former president* as a client—we come now to warn young, ambitious conservative media types to avoid taking that job with Fox News. The place is an obvious snake-pit, through which you are as likely to end up in court as you are by being the former president*'s legal mouthpiece. |
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