Provocative, pensive and splendidly acted, Hitchcock’s ‘Rope’ is a heck of a film
Back in 1948 the great Alfred Hitchcock took a risk when, as a major director, decided to turn his film Rope into an experiment of…
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Roman Polanski’s ‘Chinatown’ is one of the most impressive works of the period, an amazing experience from all angles
Produced by the great Robert Evans, Roman Polanski’s 1974 neo-noir Chinatown is without any doubt one of the most finely written films of all time….
Arthur Penn’s ‘Night Moves’ demands, and deserves, multiple viewings, and every single one of them is equally rewarding
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 times before the idea of the Internet was conceived, film magazines proved an invaluable source of filmmaking knowledge
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…
Sam Peckinpah’s ‘The Wild Bunch’ is savage poetry; one of the great masterpieces of world cinema
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…
David Fincher: A Life in Pictures
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…
“In terms of special training to become a filmmaker, one should study classic films and learn from them. That is how Scorsese became the filmmaker he is”
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…
‘Lawrence of Arabia’ is a glorious 4-hour piece of filmmaking history
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
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…
‘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,…