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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 […]
The Star Wars Canon is Inhabited by Zillions of Books. This is a selection of a few books which, in my opinion, comprehend very well the soul of the main Star Wars films. This is not about those fiction books […]
How the New Visual Effects Changed the Whole Game. The level that visual special have reached in movies is memorable. Below, a short video (over 5 mins) about how Avengers: Endgame was achieved. Here below, the latest on visual effects: […]
Orson Welles (1915-1985) Started as a Wunderkind, a very young actor and a revolutionary director in theatre and radio. Later on, he would move into movies. This took place in 1941 with Citizen Kane, for many the best film ever. The […]
Frederic Raphael: There’s a lot of talk. You want a lot of talk? Stanley Kubrick: I can’t say what I want. I want to do Arthur’s story (Schnitzler’s “Traumnovelle”), but in New York, now. That’s all I can tell you. […]
The tension that raised between the master of horror Stephen King and the master of film Stanley Kubrick about the movie The Shining is a well-known story. Let me summarise here the basic tale. This story starts at the end […]
Joseph Cotten was one of those players who shaped movies the way they are now. You don’t know who Joseph Cotten is? Let’s fix that straight away. Joseph Cheshire Cotten (1905–1994) was an actor who started his film career with […]
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 […]
A Winning Poker of Videos about Visual Magic. Get ready for a great batch of videos on the subject. Video Number One: Every Best SFX Oscar Winner ever strung together in a symphony of visual wizardry: Video Number Two: Amazing […]