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The Creation of Dino De Laurentiis’ King Kong is a great account of how this super-production came to be in the mid-70s. “Making Of” books tend to be either about big successes (The Jaws Log, which we reviewed here; Alfred […]
Editing as the Key to Narrative Success. In our post, On Film Editing According to Edward Dmytryk, we stressed the importance of the editing process in Filmmaking. There’s always been the story around that Star Wars was saved in the […]
Akira Kurosawa was a filmmaking genius. A few years ago, when I was working in Madrid, I heard that there was, in some foundation, an exhibition of the Akira Kurosawa’s storyboards and film costumes. I went. It was one of […]
Filmmaker Edward Dmytryk published a series of books on the film trade when, in the last section of his life, he became a film teacher. We have already reviewed here his book ON FILM EDITING and here his work ON […]
ON FILM EDITING: This book is a real classic. Technically, though, is dated, that is true. It’s a book written at the beginning of the ’80s, so no computers then. Most of you are all familiar with Avid, Final Cut […]
Tales from the Script: 50 Hollywood Screenwriters Share Their Stories. This book covers many aspects of the screenwriter’s life through the eyes of renowned authors. It’s a work about screenwriting filled with advice and wisdom from established Hollywood writers. And […]
Great work from VoorDeFilm about the painters that influenced Lynch here. More about Making Movies? Please check our posts The 5 Best Books on Making Movies, by Darren Aronofsky, Film Blocking, What is it?, Best “Making Of” Books: EASY RIDERS, RAGING […]
In 1975, Jaws was a Monstrous Success. It quickly grew into an iconic piece of filmmaking, made Spielberg a star and it became the first blockbuster summer movie ever. Obviously, a lot has been written about it, but there are three main […]
Honest Trailers are great fun. Maybe those filmmakers that get trashed by them wouldn’t agree, but they are fantastic. That, though, is not the only reason why I’ll be making them part of this blog from now on. The reason […]
Protagonist Vs Point of View: Two key decisions that the writer has to take at the beginning of the writing process are, to identify who the Protagonist is and to choose from whose Point of View the story will be […]