Filmmaking

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.…

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“You have to let me play Frank! Because I am Frank!”

There are probably only a handful of storytellers of David Lynch's caliber in the world today. From Eraserhead to Inland…

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Krzysztof Kieslowski was a giant of the cinema and a crusader for humanity

  By Sven Mikulec When it comes to the significant authors who indebted the world of film, there are important…

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Scorsese, De Palma, Schrader, Lynch, Bertolucci, Allen, Polanski, and Demme analyse key scenes from their film output

Mark Cousins’ Scene by Scene BBC series consists of detailed, incisive discussions in which film directors analyse key scenes from…

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“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster”

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster, said Ray Liotta, and the rest…

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“If you have a dream, get up off your ass and start putting one foot in front of the other”

Frank Darabont talks about his childhood as a refugee and immigrant; his youthful attraction to horror and fantasy; and the…

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The impact of Martin Scorsese’s ‘Mean Streets’

Celebrated as one of the most original American films of all time, Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets holds a firm place…

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John Cassavetes – the Man and His Work

In 1983, during the production of John Cassavetes’s Love Streams, journalist Michael Ventura was hired by Cannon Films executive Menahem…

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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…

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Sydney Pollack’s ‘Three Days of the Condor’ is one of the finest spy thrillers ever filmed

  By Sven Mikulec The paranoid, skeptical, post-Watergate America gave birth to Sydney Pollack's first-class thrilller Three Days of the…

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