March 2012
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The Relationship Between the Producer and a...
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The relationship I had with Harvey was definitely more like that father-son relationship that you read about in literature and whatnot. I love him to death, but, yeah, I definitely had some issues along the way. … I was an idealist. I was a young man, and I believed kind of everything I was told. And back in those days, we were told, like, ‘This is indie war, man! We’re taking on...
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Interview with film director John Cassavetes conducted in 1975 at the American Film Institute in Beverly Hills, California while he was filmmaker in residence there and editing “A Woman Under the Influence”.
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The Greatest Movie Never Made
Download Script: Napoleon, 1969 Draft by Stanley Kubrick [pdf]
The Napoleon screenplay by Stanley Kubrick appeared online sometime before the year 2000. It has since disappeared from view. But it has recently been announced that the Kubrick estate is preparing to have Napoleon published in book form. Anyone who is familiar with Kubrick will welcome the Napoleon...
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The Deadly Companions (1961)
Sam Peckinpah’s first feature film tells the story of an veteran Civil War Yankee officer Yellowleg (Brian Keith) who saves the cheater Turk (Chill Wills) in a card game, and together with the gunslinger Billy Keplinger (Steve Cochran), they ride to Gila City with the intention of heisting a bank.
Director: Sam Peckinpah Producer: Charles B. Fitzsimons Production Company: Carousel...
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Lost Robert Altman Film
Long before he chronicled the human comedy in rough-edged classics like M*A*S*H, Nashville, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, and Short Cuts, iconoclastic director Robert Altman spent decades perfecting the rules of moviemaking that he would one day so thrillingly flaunt. Altman’s long apprenticeship included directing Bonanzas, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the 1957 documentary The James Dean...
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Quentin Tarantino's first movie
Quentin Tarantino - My Best Friend’s Birthday [1987 Short Film]
The film was completed, but the final reel was destroyed in a lab fire that broke out during editing. The surviving part of the film was shown in part to a small crowd in early 1987. Actor Allen Garfield was teaching Quentin Tarantino acting at the time, and that is how he also became involved in the project. Filmed over...
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The Wire Bible
This is quite a treat. Someone got ahold of some scripts from The Wire and posted them online.
Season 1, episode 1, “The Target” Season 1, episode 9, “Game Day” Season 5, episode 10, “-30-“
But the real gem is a document dated September 6, 2000 that appears to be David Simon’s pitch to HBO for the show. The document starts with a description of the...
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2001: Making of a Myth
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Halloween Documentary
This is an in-depth documentary on John Carpenter’s horror classic HALLOWEEN (1978) starring Jamie Lee Curtis. The video includes interviews with the cast and crew.
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Les Mistons — Francois Truffaut
Dir. François Truffaut / France / 1957 A group of young boys idolize their collective obsession, Bernadettte, while trying to thwart her boyfriend. Based on a short story by Maurice Pons. Cast: Gérard Blain, Bernadette Lafont Narration: Michel François. Appears courtesy of CineHaus Entertainment http://www.thecinehaus.com/
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Interviews with Orson Welles (1969)
Recordings of almost 4 hours of a series of interviews conducted by director/author Bogdanovich with Welles between the years 1969 and 1972.
In the late ’60s and early ’70s, filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich had conducted extensive interviews with Welles, but a number of circumstances—including the director’s decision to compose an autobiography that he never got around to...
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Filming Othello is a 1978 documentary film directed by and starring Orson Welles about the making of his award-winning 1952 production Othello. The film, which was produced for West German television, was the last completed feature film directed by Welles. PLOT Filming Othello begins with Welles sitting behind a moviola.
He directly addresses the camera and announces: “This is to be a...
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Orson Welles On Editing
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