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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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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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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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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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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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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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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FUTURE NOIR, the book by Paul. M. Sammon, summarises with amazing detail how the classic sci-fi movie was made. Sammons’s book is a mammoth work on the making of a very unique film. I’ve read many “Making Of” books, but…
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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…
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It’s Terrific!, Citizen Kane’s tagline insisted in every poster. For many years considered the best film ever (still now by many), paradoxically, if you were in the American film industry in 1940 most possibly you would think that Citizen Kane…
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