‘Taxi Driver’: God’s Lonely POV
God’s Lonely POV by Will McCrabb In the last act of Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece Taxi Driver there is the ultimate visceral and violent manifestation of…
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‘Raging Bull’ is the reason we fell in love with the work of Martin Scorsese
Being the first of his films that we had the chance to see back in the good old days when video stores ruled our worlds,…
‘Full Metal Jacket’ is an indisputable classic that simply has to be part of any filmmaker’s education
At the same time devastating and inspiring, war has always been a popular theme for filmmakers to exploit. Through the course of cinematic history, there…
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
A fantastic documentary on one of the key people in the history of cinema. A portrait of the pioneer photographer, forefather of cinema, showman, murderer—Eadweard…
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995) is a documentary series produced by David Gill and silent film historian Kevin Brownlow. Chronicles the birth of European…
Roman Polanski’s ‘Tess’ is a work of great pastoral beauty as well as vivid storytelling
Roman Polanski’s arguably only romance film, Tess, is one his critically best accepted works, and the performance of 18-year-old Nastassja Kinski, along with Paris, Texas,…
All bow to the Queen!
One of our all-time favorite World War I films is, without doubt, John Huston’s 1951 The African Queen. The gripping adventure not only created a…
“He’s Robby Müller, but don’t tell him that!”
Don’t Try This At Home: From Dogma to Dogville is the story of the Mini DV revolution that occurred in independent filmmaking in the late…
“Take all of the responsibility, because you’re going to get all of the blame”
Of his directorial debut, acclaimed director David Fincher summarised to The Digital Bits: “Alien 3 was flawed from its inception and it was certainly flawed—actually,…
Robert Bresson’s Notes on Cinematography
A small, powerful book of significant thoughts on filmmaking: Robert Bresson’s Notes on the Cinematograph (NOTE: Out-of-print; available November 8, 2016). “Bresson left us with a concise…