This great work is 5 Making Of books into one. In Pictures at a Revolution, Mark Harris offers a thorough exploration of a significant transformative period in American cinema through five influential films released in 1967: Bonnie and Clyde, Doctor…
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Cinema Speculation: Tarantino Explores the Films that Made him as a Young Man
All good books are about something. But in most good books, the theme is not evident at first sight. There’s the obvious “something”, the story that shows, and then there’s the not-so-obvious “something”, the one that is really the soul…
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Take it from the Great Film Director Sidney Lumet
I need one hit so I can get the money for three more flops. —SIDNEY LUMET, 1973 Sidney Lumet‘s name is not usually found in “top directors ever” lists, but he was very, very talented (and very, very productive). He…
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More About Film Acting from Master Michael Caine (Part 2)
From the book Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life (2018), legendary actor Michael Caine shares a few tricks of his trade. For Part 1, click here. Acting is reacting When I’m learning my lines, I put…
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The King of B-movies, Bruce Campbell, on Film Acting
Reflections on the acting trade by a very popular actor Who is B.C.? For most, it means Before Christ, for the rest it means Bruce Campbell. Campbell is a film actor, basically a huge figure in the B-Movie world. His…
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DUEL’s 50th Anniversary: Let’s Celebrate the Most Unknown Classic
Los Angeles, October 1971. A small film, made for television, is being shot near LA under the direction of a young and unknown director. The movie tells the story of “a man, a truck and an open road”. It has…
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Film Director Richard Donner: In Loving Memory
A few weeks before this post has been written, on July 5th, 2021, Richard “Dick” Donner passed away. He had been the director behind very popular titles like The Omen (1976), Superman (1978), Ladyhawke (1985), the Lethal Weapon series (1987,…
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NEW DEVELOPMENT. What Happened to HOLLYWOOD PART III: Amazon buys MGM.
Not even 24 hours after publishing our second post on Hollywood upside down by the sign of the new times, a very relevant bit of news today adds a new piece to the Hollywood puzzle: Jeff Bezos company, Amazon, has…
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Honoring THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS 30 years after
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…
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Video-Analysis: The First Ten Minutes of 12 ANGRY MEN
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…
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