Whenever Arthur Penn’s name is mentioned, most people probably think of Bonnie and Clyde. The Beatty-Dunaway biographical crime film perhaps remains the most critically acclaimed…
In the education of aspiring filmmakers, when every single bit of available information builds upon the artist’s craft and know-how, vital role was played by…
Indulging a creative and, to a degree, noble and socially responsible desire to shatter the nurtured illusion of violence in the westerns as idealized, innocent…
BAFTA’s (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Guru Program is an online educational resource for filmmakers that features new and archived lectures and other…
Three-time Oscar winner Thelma Schoonmaker has been working with Martin Scorsese for almost half a century now. From Who’s That Knocking On My Door to…
When David Lean lost interest in doing a film about Gandhi with Alec Guinness in the lead role, he turned his attention to another, historically…
In 1941 the young Robert Wise met the equally young Orson Welles. And the rest, as they say, is film-history. Director Robert Wise talks about…
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,…
When legendary editor and sound designer Walter Murch talks, you better listen. Murch has been editing sound in Hollywood since starting on Francis Ford Coppola’s…
Stanley Kubrick actually made the transition from photography to film after reading Vsevolod Pudovkin’s Film Technique. Pudovkin was a Russian film director, screenwriter and actor who developed influential…