Filmmaking

With ‘Badlands,’ Terrence Malick made a directorial debut most filmmakers can only dream of

  By Sven Mikulec   With Badlands, Terrence Malick made a directorial debut most filmmakers can only dream of. The…

9 years ago

Masterclass Interview: Alfred Hitchcock on Filmmaking

In this fantastic interview from a 1976 press conference for his final film, Family Plot, Alfred Hitchcock responds to a range…

9 years ago

‘The Getaway’ remains one of the highlights that Sam Peckinpah’s rich career has to offer

  By Sven Mikulec   Sam Peckinpah's action-packed crime thriller The Getaway was a huge hit. It was just what…

9 years ago

‘Spartacus’ is a rather curious installment in both Stanley Kubrick’s body of work and in the history of cinema

The winner of four Academy Awards, Spartacus is a rather curious installment in both Stanley Kubrick's body of work and…

9 years ago

“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…

9 years ago

Roger Corman’s Most Important Film

In 1961 Roger Corman made the best and most important film of his career and one of the most vital, incendiary,…

9 years ago

‘Lawrence of Arabia’ is a glorious 4-hour piece of filmmaking history

  By Sven Mikulec   When David Lean lost interest in doing a film about Gandhi with Alec Guinness in…

9 years ago

“We are badly in need of a mad computer expert”

The great folks at British Film Institute unearthed a memo to Roger Caras from Stanley Kubrick. On 22 September 1965, during…

9 years ago

“The ring is everywhere, and the hardest opponent you can come up against is yourself”

This is one of the intrinsic life lessons Martin Scorsese learned during the making of Raging Bull, his eighth feature…

9 years ago

‘Wild at Heart’ is deeply sexual, splendidly grotesque and mammothly entertaining

Immediately in love with Barry Gifford's novel of the same name, David Lynch decided he needed to make Wild at…

9 years ago