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Caine retiring? Recently a bit of news appeared that made me sad: Michael Caine, one of the best actors ever, was retiring. Of course, he has the right the withdraw from his profession and take it easy. Still, when I…
Continue reading More About Film Acting from Master Michael Caine (Part 1)
We’ve been asked by fans to keep the campaign open, as they will be able to help in a later date. We decided to do so.SO, YOU STILL CAN HELP!Please, donate at thedevilonwheelsmovie.com, IN EXCHANGE WE OFFER YOU YOUR NAME…
Continue reading Campaign for Documentary on Spielberg’s DUEL STILL LIVE NOW!!
This is an 8’29” video essay about the way colour is used to tell the story in Joker. More about JOKER’s look? Click here and you’ll get the Joker’s cinematographer himself, Lawrence Sher, telling you about his career and the…
Along came a cannibal. 30 years have passed since Hannibal Lecter entered many people’s lives, mesmerizing them, becoming an instant icon. The Silence of the Lambs ended up winning 5 Oscars, all the “big ones” (best film, director, script, actor…
Continue reading Honoring THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS 30 years after
During the first key 10-15 minutes of any movie, the audience takes a fundamental decision: they make their minds about going with the film or just disengaging. 10-15 minutes is the amount of time that filmmakers, in general, have to…
Continue reading Video-Analysis: The First Ten Minutes of SEVEN
If you like what follows, don’t praise me. I’m just the messenger here. This piece is to celebrate a great post by Studio Binder about practical effects in film that I felt I had to share. The videos are from…
Continue reading Practical Effects in Film — How Filmmakers Do It For Real
And How the Classic Western High Noon Became a Response to the Wave of Extreme Anti-Communism which Swarmed the American Film Industry. What we Mean by Red Scare? National Geographic summarises it very well here and below: The Red Scare…
Continue reading Witch Hunt in 50s Hollywood: The Second Red Scare
Movie posters are complex entities. Occasionally they are works of art, but this is not their main goal. The mission of a film poster is another: to sell a concept, an image, a title, a tag line, a movie to…
Today we are going to travel in memory lane, but we’ll do so real, real fast. The 70s was a great time for car chases in American movies. Possibly the film with the most famous car chase ever, though, was…
Like the books they are based on, the film adaptations of Frank Herbert’s Dune are an ever-expanding story in themselves. At the very beginning, they were a few mild shots at adapting Dune, which involved names like David Lean (because…
Continue reading All DUNES before DUNE (TV and Movies, from Jodorowky’s to Villeneuve’s)
