Sidney Lumet’s ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ is most likely the one film in the director’s rich career that stayed with us the most
It was 12 Angry Men that initially attracted us to the great American filmmaker and storyteller Sidney Lumet, but his…
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Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie
The year is 1961 and Ingmar Bergman is making a movie. While planted on the scene as apprentice to Bergman,…
Andrei Tarkovsky: The essential documentaries on the Russian Master
Everyone’s immortal. Everything is too. —Andrei Tarkovsky (4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) Charles M, a fantastic…
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…
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…
Arthur Penn’s ‘Night Moves’ demands, and deserves, multiple viewings, and every single one of them is equally rewarding
By Sven Mikulec Whenever Arthur Penn’s name is mentioned, most people probably think of Bonnie and Clyde. The Beatty-Dunaway…
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,…
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…
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…
“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…