This article appeared in the New York Times this summer. Interesting reading about current trends in relation to film schools and prospects for current grads.
Posting this link reminds me of good articles and interviews (including ones featuring Jay Rabinowitz, Nicholas Ray, and Richard Linklater; and Peter Weller on Antonioni) in the issue of the Projections series devoted to film schools: Projections 12.
Projections 12, edited by John Boorman, Walter Donohue, Fraser MacDonald
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