November 2012
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WatchScene By Scene - Woody Allen. BBC Interview with Woody Allen discussing his work in film.
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This was never released on The Wrestler DVD. I asked Darren to interview Mickey for me because Mickey never liked having me on set (i was the set photographer). So a couple months after we wrapped I had Darren invite me to Mickey’s house in NYC. He had all these little dogs peeing and humping pillows and running around our legs..snorting like little piglets. But I just want people to see...
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October 2012
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WatchInside ‘The Fountain’: Death and Rebirth (2007).
Previously on Cinephilia & Beyond:
Director’s Commentary of Aronofsky’s “The Fountain”
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WatchScene By Scene: Brian De Palma (1998). Director Brian De Palma talks to Mark Cousins about his maverick career, his childhood and his films.
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WatchDirector Jonathan Demme talks to Mark Cousins about his life and career.
Previously on Cinephilia & Beyond:
The Silence of the Lambs, (out-of-print) CC commentary by Jonathan Demme, Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, and screenwriter Ted Tally
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WatchAlan Ball and Ted Hope discuss the making of Towelhead, an adaptation of Alicia Erian’s novel about a Lebanese-American girl’s experience growing up in Texas during the Gulf War.
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WatchBBC Omnibus: Robert Altman in England (2002)
fuckyeahrobertaltman:
Linked to a pretty fantastic hour-long BBC doc on Altman that I’d never seen before. The bulk of it deals with Gosford Park but they do a good job of giving a pretty thorough rundown and are able to include most of the major players from his long career.
Most notably, it features considerable footage of Altman doing that...
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Clive James Meets Roman Polanski – A rare TV documentary filmed in 1984. Running 46 minutes and encompassing a wide variety of topics Polanski speaks frankly about his childhood in the Warsaw ghetto, his mothers death, his beginnings in filmmaking, his tragic marriage to Sharon Tate and eventually even his arrest for sexual assault. For fans of Polanski this DVD is worth purchasing for this...
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WatchScene By Scene — Roman Polanski (2000). Polanski gives a masterclass on the making of Chinatown. Hear why he believes it to be his best film, and learn the stories behind his approach to script construction, mise en scene, directing difficult actors, and unhappy endings.
Previously on Cinephilia and Beyond:
Chinatown commentary track with screenwriter Robert Towne and David Fincher
The...
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Watch“Editing is what makes film a film.” That audacious statement is made at the beginning of this 2005 documentary about the art of film editing. After listening to many editors and directors, movie novices as well as cinephiles may agree. Kathy Bates narrates this whirlwind history of the art punctuated by dozens of scenes to illustrate the effect of film editing in heightening reality...
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The Extra-Terrestrial, 1981 Revised Shooting... →
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Here is a remarkable improvised audition by Henry Thomas that moved Steven Spielberg to tears.
Okay Kid, you got the job. Henry Thomas goes into more detail in this interview for Esquire Magazine.
ESQ: It’s a movie that’s impacted a lot of kids over the years. What was it like to be a young kid going through that? HT: It was definitely not something I expected when I got...
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GITS Script Reading & Analysis: “Black Swan”
Monday, October 22: General comments Tuesday, October 23: Structure Wednesday, October 24: Characters Thursday, October 25: Themes Friday, October 26: Dialogue
