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…
How TOY STORY 3 Was Written
Michael Arndt acquired prestige as a screenwriter with Little Miss Sunshine (2006), a great character-driven comedy that became a success. The future held for Arndt titles like Oblivion (2013), Hunger Games 2 (2013) and The Force Awakens (2015), but this…
The 3 Best Car Chases from the 70s
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…
Film Blocking, What is it?
Film blocking and staging mean choreographing the actors and the camera in a given scene in a way which develops and pushes the film narrative forward. It’s never guided solely by aesthetics, and if it is, it’s wrong, That’s why…
All DUNES before DUNE (TV and Movies, from Jodorowky’s to Villeneuve’s)
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…
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Fantastic Material from the Original STAR WARS + Great Parody Stuff
Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Peter Mayhew rehearsing a scene on the Star Wars‘ set, aboard The Millenium Falcon, and having a laugh. Alec Guiness, our beloved Obi-Wan, is there too, but he seems to be thinking “What the hell…
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Buster Keaton: The Best Comedian Ever?
A Master of Physical Comedy. Comedy always helps in times of distress. This being the case, why not revisit (or visit for the first time) a genius of the trade? Buster Keaton was one of the very top masters of…
Goodbye to a Master of Acting, Max Von Sydow
A post to bid goodbye to a guy who has shown us what acting can do. Extensively. Max Von Sydow is one of the actors whose work has made a bigger impression on me. Not only his very renowned Bergman…
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The 11 Best “One Shot” Fight Scenes in TV and Movies
There’s a website in Spanish named Espinof.com. I follow it, it’s good. This is an entry of them with the 11 Best “One-Shot” Fight Scenes in TV and Movies. It’s super. In case you don’t understand Spanish, I have placed…
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Three Giants of Cinematography
Nestor Almendros, John Alcott, and Roger Deakins. Of this great triad of Gods of Cinematography, only Deakins is still with us, working at full throttle. Nestor Almendros Spanish by birth (Catalan to be exact), Cuban by adoption, French by most…