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Steven Spielberg conceded a few years ago a very interesting interview in which he explained a lot about his career, in special about the making of Jaws. In this chat, he gives specifics about how they filmed the death of […]
Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age: At the American Film Institute is a unique book by George Stevens Jr., son of celebrated film director George Stevens. The volume summarises a series of encounters at the AFI with […]
From the end of the 60s until the mid-70s: a fascinating period in American movies. The wonderful book The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood is in a way the story of this period. Mainly centered on […]
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 […]
(according to Arthur Miller, Henry James, Robert McKee, and Aaron Sorkin) In fiction, characters are not what they say but what they do. Action defines character. Some even say that action = character. Let’s check first what a couple of […]
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, […]
Wikipedia states that A. Scott Frank (born March 10, 1960) is an American screenwriter, film director, and author. Known as “one of the most reliable and highly-paid screenwriters in the business”, Frank received two Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay for Out […]
Prepare Yourself For A Perfectly Outrageous Motion Picture. Paddy Chayefsky. It’s highly probable that you are not familiar with the name. But let me tell you, he was quite a filmmaker. A hell of a writer. During the 50s, 60s, and […]
Bob McCabe wrote the book The Pythons’ Autobiography By The Pythons about the behind-the-curtains side of Monty Python‘s artistic life. Here we told about the making of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Now it’s the turn of Monty Python’s […]
Bob McCabe wrote the book The Pythons’ Autobiography By The Pythons unveiling the behind-the-scenes of Monty Python’s artistic life. This post and the next will specifically deal with their 2 most successful movies, Monty Python and the Holy Grail and […]