May 2012
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FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA’S MEGALOPOLIS
Megalopolis – a science fiction tale of epic proportions – has been described by director Francis Ford Coppola as a highly personal film. He has claimed that his major studio productions from the 90s – Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), Jack (1996) and The Rainmaker (1997) – were made to generate enough finance to get his pet obsession off the ground. So why, I hear you ask, with three financial hits...
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Stanley Kubrick on Stardust (featuring rare...
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Inside Troublemaker Studios: A Tour By Robert...
With this special we go into the garage of director Robert Rodriguez who basically made ‘Once Upon a Time in Mexico’ all by himself. He directed, produced, wrote, shot, chopped, and scored (as he puts it) the movie and he did a lot of the post-production in the garage we see. “I believe home is where the dreams are”, Robert Rodriquez.
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Amblin' is the first completed short film shot by...
Amblin’, 1968. Written and Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Richard Levin and Pamela McMyler. While studying at Long Beach state in the 60s, Steven Spielberg was introduced to aspiring producer Dennis Hoffman who provided the young filmmaker with a budget of $15,000 to produce a screenplay Spielberg had written entitled Amblin’. The resulting twenty-six minute short received...
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Ridley Scott's first short film Boy and Bicycle,...
Boy and Bicycle, 1965. Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring Tony Scott. Boy and Bicycle is the debut film of British director Ridley Scott and stars younger brother Tony as a schoolboy truant who spends the day visiting various locations around his northern seaside town, while a voice-over provides an insight into his frustrations and teenage angst. Made in the early 60s using a 16mm camera...
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The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist →
For as long as I can remember, The Fear of God has been the most requested video here at The Exorcist Fansite. Aired by the BBC in 1998 and produced by renowned Exorcist journalist Mark Kermode, the documentary stands as the best – and really the only ‘official’ documentary – about the making of The Exorcist. It features one of the last ever interviews with Jason Miller before his death as he...
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On the Edge of 'Blade Runner' (2000)
Great documentary on Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic “Blade Runner”.
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Rarely seen 'Blade Runner' Convention Reel from...
One of the Blade Runner Convention Reels featuring interviews with Ridley Scott, Syd Mead and Douglas Trumbull about making Blade Runner universe. This 16 mm featurette, made by M. K. Productions in 1982, is specifically designed to circulate through the country’s various horror, fantasy and science fiction conventions.
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Conversation With Kieslowski (1991)
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Krzysztof Kieslowski: I’m So-So… (1998)
Denmark/Poland, 1995 Running Length: 0:56 MPAA Classification: No MPAA Rating (Nothing offensive) Theatrical Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Cast: Krzysztof Kieslowski Director: Krzysztof Wierzbicki Producer: Karen Hjort Cinematography: Jacek Petrycki Music: Zbigniew Preisner In Polish with subtitles On March 13, 1996, the self-effacing Polish film maker, Krzysztof Kieslowski, died of heart failure...
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Faro Island Mystique (2004)
This 16 minute short features footage from films that Ingmar Bergman has shot at the Baltic island Faro. These films are Persona, Shame, and The Passion of Anna, their themes supported by the isolated island’s rocky shores, grey skies, and long winters. Interviewed are Liv Ullmann, who lived on the island with Bergman for 5 years, Bibi Andersson, Erland Josephson, and Bergman biographer...
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The pages are from an auction, publicized in 2008, where Roald Dahl’s annotated script was going for 25’000 to 35’000 buckos. What’s worth mentioning is that the script apparently had 240 pages (wowsa) with revisions. It was dated 17 June, 1966. Well, the script now probably belongs to some ridiculously rich Bond nut and/or Dahl fan … But heck, at least we get to...
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A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through...
Despite its nearly four-hour running time, this is a uniquely personal look at movies from one of the late 20th century’s great directors and film historians. The film consists of head & shoulder shots of Scorsese speaking into the camera for a minute or two, followed by 10-15 minutes of film clips with Scorsese voice-over. Scorsese approaches the films in terms of how they affected...
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Italianamerican (1974) by Martin Scorsese
Filmmaker Martin Scorsese interviews his mother and father about their life in New York and the family history back in Sicily. These are two people who have lived together for a long time and know each other very well. They have retained individual identities and differing opinions, yet have found a way to live with each other. Both Catherine and Charles Scorsese are fascinating storytellers....
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Ridley Scott - 'Alien' (1979) Audio Commentary
“Hello I’m Ridley Scott, and I’m gonna be talking about Alien….”
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Visualizing Carrie delves into the depths of artistry behind the scenes that went into the making “Carrie.” Through the use of stills and script pages, the viewer is shown the original opening sequence of “Carrie,” which, if you’ve read the book know that it involves stones falling from the sky. The sequence is only hinted at in King’s novel, but the...
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WatchTwo in the Wave is the story of a friendship. Jean-Luc Godard was born in 1930; Francois Truffaut two years later. Love of movies brings them together. They write in the same magazines, Cahiers du Cinema and Arts. When the younger of the two becomes a filmmaker with “The 400 Blows”, which triumphs in Cannes in 1959, he helps his older friend shift to directing, offering him a...
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Martin Scorsese's Favorite Films
a-bittersweet-life:
Martin Scorsese discusses his cinematic favorites and their influence on his film work.
There’s a lot of pictures I’m going to talk about. Certainly one of my favorites is The Searchers, John Ford’s The Searchers. Up to that point, I’d become aware of certain names on films, and one of the key names was John Ford. I saw his name usually on the films I enjoyed, and then I...
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Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano (2000)
First major English-language documentary profile of the cult Japanese actor/director, Takeshi Kitano. Featuring interviews with many of his regular contributors and colleagues, the film explores Kitano’s rise from working-class poverty to superstar of Japanese radio, TV, comedy and journalism, and follows the making of his US-Japanese gangster film, ‘Brother’.
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WatchVisions of Light (1992)
Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography and of the “DP” (the director of photography), illustrating their points with clips from 100 films, from Birth of a Nation to Do the Right Thing. Themes: the DP tells people where to look; changes in movies (the arrival of sound, color, and wide screens) required creative responses from DPs; and,...
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