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STANLEY KUBRICK’S ORIGINAL TREATMENT FOR 'THE SHINING Stanley Kubrick’s original treatment for ‘The Shining’. By Sven Mikulec. One of Stephen King’s most popular and celebrated novels, The Shining was initially conceived as the author’s family was staying at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. There, King developed a story of a haunted hotel, and since he had already givensome
'NETWORK': SIDNEY LUMET AND PADDY CHAYEFSKY'S GRUESOME Thirty-five years after the release of Network, the unpublished notes of the writer Paddy Chayefsky document the angst and animus that he channeled into the film’s Academy Award-winning screenplay. — The Notes Behind ‘Network’. The shooting script for Network. HowardBeale’s
JOHN FORD’S ‘THE SEARCHERS’: THE ESSENTIAL FILM OF By Sven Mikulec. Respected filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence), an intelligent, educated and well-spoken man, was giving a lecture in Zagreb, Croatia a couple of months ago, when he said something that resonated in our minds for quite some time.His statement was simple and logical, and yet left an impact as rather refreshing. RIDLEY SCOTT’S ‘BLADE RUNNER’: A GAME-CHANGING SCIENCE Future Shocks (27 minutes), is a documentary about Blade Runner from 2003 made by TVOntario (as part of their Film 101 series), has interviews with executive producer Bud Yorkin, Syd Mead, and the cast along with Sean Young, but again without Harrison Ford. There is extensive commentary by science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer and film critics as the documentary focuses on the themes, visual DAVID LEAN’S ‘NOSTROMO’: THE OLD MAN AND THE UNTOLD TALE David Lean’s ‘Nostromo’: The Old Man and the Untold Tale of the Seaboard. By Tim Pelan. David Lean, two-time Oscar-winning director of Lawrence Of Arabia and The Bridge On the River Kwai, had something of a renaissance in the 1980s after a spell in the wilderness (see the then critical drubbing received by Ryan’s Daughter ), with both TERRENCE MALICK’S ‘THE THIN RED LINE’: THE TRAUMATIC AND By Sven Mikulec. Twenty years have passed between Days of Heaven, Terrence Malick’s second feature film, and The Thin Red Line, his great 1998 comeback, the third film in a rich, influential and thoroughly unique career of one of the most interesting, inspirational and poetic filmmakers of our time.Twenty years is a very long time, but as The Thin Red Line proves, genuine talent and a true ALAN PARKER’S ‘MISSISSIPPI BURNING’: MAKING A POWERFULSEE MORE ON CINEPHILIABEYOND.ORG 'CATCH-22': MIKE NICHOLS' UNDERAPPRECIATED CLASSIC YOSSARIAN IS ALIVE AND WELL IN THE MEXICAN DESERT. Here is a great article by Nora Ephron on the filming of Mike Nichols Catch-22, that appeared in the New York Times on March 16, 1969. Ms. Ephron reports that Orson Welles “told Mike Nichols how to direct the film, the crew how to move the camera, film editor Sam O’ Steen how to cut a scene, and most of the actors how to deliver their HOME • CINEPHILIA & BEYONDABOUTPRESS AND TESTIMONIALSCONTACTSPONSORSHIPDONATE Home • Cinephilia & Beyond. Filmmaking. Universal Soldier? The Emersonian Combat Experience of Terrence Malick’s ‘The Thin Red Line’. ‘The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel’: The Perfect Window into the Mind of a Groundbreaking Artist. How Robert Altman’s Anti-Western Classic ‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller’ Aged Like Fine Wine. THE MUST-HEAR COMMENTARY LIST -CINEPHILIA AND BEYOND Here’s our selection, mostly from YouTube. Point Blank audio commentary with John Boorman and Steven Soderbergh. The Verdict audio commentary with Sidney Lumet and Paul Newman. The Third Man audio commentary with Steven Soderbergh and Tony Gilroy. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf audio commentary with Mike Nichols and StevenSoderbergh.
STANLEY KUBRICK’S ORIGINAL TREATMENT FOR 'THE SHINING Stanley Kubrick’s original treatment for ‘The Shining’. By Sven Mikulec. One of Stephen King’s most popular and celebrated novels, The Shining was initially conceived as the author’s family was staying at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. There, King developed a story of a haunted hotel, and since he had already givensome
'NETWORK': SIDNEY LUMET AND PADDY CHAYEFSKY'S GRUESOME Thirty-five years after the release of Network, the unpublished notes of the writer Paddy Chayefsky document the angst and animus that he channeled into the film’s Academy Award-winning screenplay. — The Notes Behind ‘Network’. The shooting script for Network. HowardBeale’s
JOHN FORD’S ‘THE SEARCHERS’: THE ESSENTIAL FILM OF By Sven Mikulec. Respected filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence), an intelligent, educated and well-spoken man, was giving a lecture in Zagreb, Croatia a couple of months ago, when he said something that resonated in our minds for quite some time.His statement was simple and logical, and yet left an impact as rather refreshing. RIDLEY SCOTT’S ‘BLADE RUNNER’: A GAME-CHANGING SCIENCE Future Shocks (27 minutes), is a documentary about Blade Runner from 2003 made by TVOntario (as part of their Film 101 series), has interviews with executive producer Bud Yorkin, Syd Mead, and the cast along with Sean Young, but again without Harrison Ford. There is extensive commentary by science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer and film critics as the documentary focuses on the themes, visual DAVID LEAN’S ‘NOSTROMO’: THE OLD MAN AND THE UNTOLD TALE David Lean’s ‘Nostromo’: The Old Man and the Untold Tale of the Seaboard. By Tim Pelan. David Lean, two-time Oscar-winning director of Lawrence Of Arabia and The Bridge On the River Kwai, had something of a renaissance in the 1980s after a spell in the wilderness (see the then critical drubbing received by Ryan’s Daughter ), with both TERRENCE MALICK’S ‘THE THIN RED LINE’: THE TRAUMATIC AND By Sven Mikulec. Twenty years have passed between Days of Heaven, Terrence Malick’s second feature film, and The Thin Red Line, his great 1998 comeback, the third film in a rich, influential and thoroughly unique career of one of the most interesting, inspirational and poetic filmmakers of our time.Twenty years is a very long time, but as The Thin Red Line proves, genuine talent and a true ALAN PARKER’S ‘MISSISSIPPI BURNING’: MAKING A POWERFULSEE MORE ON CINEPHILIABEYOND.ORG 'CATCH-22': MIKE NICHOLS' UNDERAPPRECIATED CLASSIC YOSSARIAN IS ALIVE AND WELL IN THE MEXICAN DESERT. Here is a great article by Nora Ephron on the filming of Mike Nichols Catch-22, that appeared in the New York Times on March 16, 1969. Ms. Ephron reports that Orson Welles “told Mike Nichols how to direct the film, the crew how to move the camera, film editor Sam O’ Steen how to cut a scene, and most of the actors how to deliver their THE MUST-HEAR COMMENTARY LIST -CINEPHILIA AND BEYOND Here’s our selection, mostly from YouTube. Point Blank audio commentary with John Boorman and Steven Soderbergh. The Verdict audio commentary with Sidney Lumet and Paul Newman. The Third Man audio commentary with Steven Soderbergh and Tony Gilroy. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf audio commentary with Mike Nichols and StevenSoderbergh.
'NETWORK': SIDNEY LUMET AND PADDY CHAYEFSKY'S GRUESOME Thirty-five years after the release of Network, the unpublished notes of the writer Paddy Chayefsky document the angst and animus that he channeled into the film’s Academy Award-winning screenplay. —The Notes Behind ‘Network’ The shooting script for Network.Howard Beale’s “Mad as Hell” speech was filmed on Day 1. Dave Itzkoff’s marvelous book Mad as Hell: The Making of Network ‘AMERICAN CINEMA’ EXPLORES FILM HISTORY AND AMERICAN THE WESTERN; The western is an American myth that has been translated by other cultures and reinterpreted time and again, but never dies. With clips and critical commentary on westerns from John Ford’s Stagecoach through the work of Arthur Penn, Sam Peckinpah, and Clint Eastwood, the program traces the aesthetic evolution of the genre as well as its sociological importance. HITCHCOCK'S ‘VERTIGO’: THE UNRELENTING MALE GAZE THAT William Friedkin on Alfred Hitchcock and Vertigo.. Open YouTube video A treasure trove called CineFiles contains scanned images of reviews, press kits, festival and showcase program notes, newspaper articles, interviews, and other documents from the PFA Library’s extensive collection. See also: The Hitchcock Zone. STORYBOARDS “Of course, I enjoyed designing the church tower and steps JOHN FORD’S ‘THE SEARCHERS’: THE ESSENTIAL FILM OF By Sven Mikulec. Respected filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence), an intelligent, educated and well-spoken man, was giving a lecture in Zagreb, Croatia a couple of months ago, when he said something that resonated in our minds for quite some time.His statement was simple and logical, and yet left an impact as rather refreshing. ‘THE NEW WORLD’: TERRENCE MALICK’S MAGIC PORTRAYAL OF The following is an excerpt from the book ‘The Cinema of Terrence Malick: Poetic Visions of America,’ written by Mark Cousins, ‘Praising The New World.’ PRAISING ‘THE NEW WORLD’ by Mark Cousins. We cannot separate our reading of a film, our sense of where it fits in culture and aesthetics, from the raw circumstances in whichwe saw it.
'GOODFELLAS' AT 30: MARTIN SCORSESE’S ANTHROPOLOGICAL Goodfellas is based on the true-life story of Henry Hill (played by Ray Liotta), a low-level gangster from boyhood to manhood stretching through the 1960s and 1970s, turned FBI informer, as related by him to crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi in his book, Wise Guy: Life in a MafiaFamily.
MONTY PYTHON'S ‘LIFE OF BRIAN’ IS AS CLEVER AS YOU'D By Sven Mikulec. Simply one of the best comedies ever to hit the screen, Life of Brian is a brilliant religious satire from the endlessly inspired Monty Python, and as such easily stands among our favorites. Four years after highly praised Monty Python and the Holy Grail, six legendary British comedians joined forces once again, telling an achingly hilarious story of a simple man whose THE USES OF DISENCHANTMENT: HOW MICHAEL MANN’S ‘THE KEEP The Uses of Disenchantment: How Michael Mann’s ‘The Keep’ Fell Into Neglect. By Tim Pelan. In early 2016 BAMcinématek held a major retrospective of all Michael Mann’s filmography, throwing up a few surprises, such as a fresh and one-night-only exclusive showing of a new “Director’s Cut” of Marmite hacker movie, Blackhat, and a 'EASY RIDER': A REVOLUTIONARY ROAD-TRIP FILM THAT HERALDED And you had a great time doing the film. Oh, wonderful. We had a great time on the shoot. I didn’t know this at the time, but Jack was also sent as a watchdog to see if I was okay. HOME • CINEPHILIA & BEYONDABOUTPRESS AND TESTIMONIALSCONTACTSPONSORSHIPDONATE Home • Cinephilia & Beyond. Filmmaking. Universal Soldier? The Emersonian Combat Experience of Terrence Malick’s ‘The Thin Red Line’. ‘The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel’: The Perfect Window into the Mind of a Groundbreaking Artist. How Robert Altman’s Anti-Western Classic ‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller’ Aged Like Fine Wine. 'NETWORK': SIDNEY LUMET AND PADDY CHAYEFSKY'S GRUESOME Thirty-five years after the release of Network, the unpublished notes of the writer Paddy Chayefsky document the angst and animus that he channeled into the film’s Academy Award-winning screenplay. — The Notes Behind ‘Network’. The shooting script for Network. Howard Beale’s “Mad as Hell” speech was filmed on Day 1. HITCHCOCK'S ‘VERTIGO’: THE UNRELENTING MALE GAZE THAT William Friedkin on Alfred Hitchcock and Vertigo.. Open YouTube video A treasure trove called CineFiles contains scanned images of reviews, press kits, festival and showcase program notes, newspaper articles, interviews, and other documents from the PFA Library’s extensive collection. See also: The Hitchcock Zone. STORYBOARDS “Of course, I enjoyed designing the church tower and steps STANLEY KUBRICK’S ORIGINAL TREATMENT FOR 'THE SHINING Stanley Kubrick's treatment of 'The Shining' By Sven Mikulec. One of Stephen King’s most popular and celebrated novels, The Shining was initially conceived as the author’s family was staying at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. There, King developed a story of a haunted hotel, and since he had already given some thought into writing a story of a boy with ESP, he simply put the two 'GOODFELLAS' AT 30: MARTIN SCORSESE’S ANTHROPOLOGICAL Goodfellas is based on the true-life story of Henry Hill (played by Ray Liotta), a low-level gangster from boyhood to manhood stretching through the 1960s and 1970s, turned FBI informer, as related by him to crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi in his book, Wise Guy: Life in a MafiaFamily.
TERRENCE MALICK'S ‘DAYS OF HEAVEN’ IS ONE OF THE MOST The following video is an excerpt from an interview with John Bailey, a camera operator for Days of Heaven, who reveals Malick’s use of natural light and little artificial light to create the look of the film.It is well-known that Malick made great use of the “magichour,”
AN INTERVIEW WITH JACQUES TATI • CINEPHILIA & BEYOND An Interview with Jacques Tati. Jacques Tati visits Marlon Brando on the set of One-Eyed Jacks, 1961. Studs Terkel was a great fan of film, as evidenced by his many discussions with filmmakers, actors, and critics; and during his career he traveled to and recorded interviewsin
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11 n v . -, 1 i i jje^v ^.t. BLUE VELVET rf Original Screenplay by w David Lynch Revised Third Draft August 24, 1984 Registered with WGAw Property of: Dino De laurentiis Corporation ALAN PARKER’S ‘MISSISSIPPI BURNING’: MAKING A POWERFULSEE MORE ON CINEPHILIABEYOND.ORG JOHN HUSTON AND HUMPHREY BOGART: THE MISE-EN-SCÈNE When someone mentions the most famous director-actor collaborations, there are usually several monumental pairs that come to an average film lover’s mind before this great partnership that marked the middle of the 20th century. HOME • CINEPHILIA & BEYONDABOUTPRESS AND TESTIMONIALSCONTACTSPONSORSHIPDONATE Home • Cinephilia & Beyond. Filmmaking. Universal Soldier? The Emersonian Combat Experience of Terrence Malick’s ‘The Thin Red Line’. ‘The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel’: The Perfect Window into the Mind of a Groundbreaking Artist. How Robert Altman’s Anti-Western Classic ‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller’ Aged Like Fine Wine. 'NETWORK': SIDNEY LUMET AND PADDY CHAYEFSKY'S GRUESOME Thirty-five years after the release of Network, the unpublished notes of the writer Paddy Chayefsky document the angst and animus that he channeled into the film’s Academy Award-winning screenplay. — The Notes Behind ‘Network’. The shooting script for Network. Howard Beale’s “Mad as Hell” speech was filmed on Day 1. HITCHCOCK'S ‘VERTIGO’: THE UNRELENTING MALE GAZE THAT William Friedkin on Alfred Hitchcock and Vertigo.. Open YouTube video A treasure trove called CineFiles contains scanned images of reviews, press kits, festival and showcase program notes, newspaper articles, interviews, and other documents from the PFA Library’s extensive collection. See also: The Hitchcock Zone. STORYBOARDS “Of course, I enjoyed designing the church tower and steps STANLEY KUBRICK’S ORIGINAL TREATMENT FOR 'THE SHINING Stanley Kubrick's treatment of 'The Shining' By Sven Mikulec. One of Stephen King’s most popular and celebrated novels, The Shining was initially conceived as the author’s family was staying at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. There, King developed a story of a haunted hotel, and since he had already given some thought into writing a story of a boy with ESP, he simply put the two 'GOODFELLAS' AT 30: MARTIN SCORSESE’S ANTHROPOLOGICAL Goodfellas is based on the true-life story of Henry Hill (played by Ray Liotta), a low-level gangster from boyhood to manhood stretching through the 1960s and 1970s, turned FBI informer, as related by him to crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi in his book, Wise Guy: Life in a MafiaFamily.
TERRENCE MALICK'S ‘DAYS OF HEAVEN’ IS ONE OF THE MOST The following video is an excerpt from an interview with John Bailey, a camera operator for Days of Heaven, who reveals Malick’s use of natural light and little artificial light to create the look of the film.It is well-known that Malick made great use of the “magichour,”
AN INTERVIEW WITH JACQUES TATI • CINEPHILIA & BEYOND An Interview with Jacques Tati. Jacques Tati visits Marlon Brando on the set of One-Eyed Jacks, 1961. Studs Terkel was a great fan of film, as evidenced by his many discussions with filmmakers, actors, and critics; and during his career he traveled to and recorded interviewsin
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11 n v . -, 1 i i jje^v ^.t. BLUE VELVET rf Original Screenplay by w David Lynch Revised Third Draft August 24, 1984 Registered with WGAw Property of: Dino De laurentiis Corporation ALAN PARKER’S ‘MISSISSIPPI BURNING’: MAKING A POWERFULSEE MORE ON CINEPHILIABEYOND.ORG JOHN HUSTON AND HUMPHREY BOGART: THE MISE-EN-SCÈNE When someone mentions the most famous director-actor collaborations, there are usually several monumental pairs that come to an average film lover’s mind before this great partnership that marked the middle of the 20th century. STANLEY KUBRICK’S ORIGINAL TREATMENT FOR 'THE SHINING Stanley Kubrick's treatment of 'The Shining' By Sven Mikulec. One of Stephen King’s most popular and celebrated novels, The Shining was initially conceived as the author’s family was staying at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. There, King developed a story of a haunted hotel, and since he had already given some thought into writing a story of a boy with ESP, he simply put the two 'BILLY, HOW DID YOU DO IT?': A The Austrian-born filmmaker who would become one of the most important figures of American cinema, Billy Wilder could have been proud of a rich career filled with many movies now deemed true classics. AN INTERVIEW WITH JACQUES TATI • CINEPHILIA & BEYOND An Interview with Jacques Tati. Jacques Tati visits Marlon Brando on the set of One-Eyed Jacks, 1961. Studs Terkel was a great fan of film, as evidenced by his many discussions with filmmakers, actors, and critics; and during his career he traveled to and recorded interviewsin
CAROL REED’S ‘THE THIRD MAN’: HOW ORSON WELLES STOLE A The images never feel grounded. There’s a story about when William Wyler, the great director, saw the picture and, as a joke, sent Carol Reed a level to keep his camera straight. When the picture was released, the music became popular all around the world. That Third Man theme was a part of our lives. MONTY PYTHON'S ‘LIFE OF BRIAN’ IS AS CLEVER AS YOU'D By Sven Mikulec. Simply one of the best comedies ever to hit the screen, Life of Brian is a brilliant religious satire from the endlessly inspired Monty Python, and as such easily stands among our favorites. Four years after highly praised Monty Python and the Holy Grail, six legendary British comedians joined forces once again, telling an achingly hilarious story of a simple man whose ROBERT ALTMAN’S ‘THE PLAYER’: AN INTELLIGENT AND HILARIOUS After spending a whole decade in an unofficial exile after several weak box office results, Robert Altman returned to the Hollywood studio system in 1992, when The Player blew everyone away. It would seem easy to categorize this brilliant and hilarious satire to some kind of personal revenge from the spurned filmmaker, who was a hot merchandise in the seventies with hits like M.A.S.H. or TERRENCE MALICK’S ‘THE THIN RED LINE’: THE TRAUMATIC AND By Sven Mikulec. Twenty years have passed between Days of Heaven, Terrence Malick’s second feature film, and The Thin Red Line, his great 1998 comeback, the third film in a rich, influential and thoroughly unique career of one of the most interesting, inspirational and poetic filmmakers of our time.Twenty years is a very long time, but as The Thin Red Line proves, genuine talent and a true HOW ROBERT ALTMAN’S ANTI-WESTERN CLASSIC ‘MCCABE & MRS A colorful talk with Altman as he prepared an early foray into the western genre. The 15th man who was asked to direct M*A*S*H (and did) makes a peculiar western, by Aljean Harmetz, June 20, 1971.. It is 4:30 on a Friday afternoon in late December, and the Canadian darkness has fallen like a stone. ROMAN POLANSKI'S 'CHINATOWN' IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPRESSIVE Produced by the great Robert Evans, Roman Polanski’s 1974 neo-noir Chinatown is without any doubt one of the most finely written films of all time. Robert Towne’s screenplay is an example of extremely perfected craftsmanship: the way it conveys the story rooted in real history seems breathtakingly natural and simple, while at the same time it offers wonderful opportunities for Faye Dunaway 'MARNIE': HITCHCOCK'S CONTROVERSIAL EXPLORATION OF SEXUAL The film that started out as a critical failure, labeled as the weakest link in the maestro’s string of high-quality cinematic treats, over time developed into one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most praised movies. Marnie just might be the darkest, most controversial and complex film in the great director’s whole career, an obvious departure from the standard themes he liked to explore, an HOME • CINEPHILIA & BEYONDABOUTPRESS AND TESTIMONIALSCONTACTSPONSORSHIPDONATE Home • Cinephilia & Beyond. Filmmaking. Universal Soldier? The Emersonian Combat Experience of Terrence Malick’s ‘The Thin Red Line’. ‘The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel’: The Perfect Window into the Mind of a Groundbreaking Artist. How Robert Altman’s Anti-Western Classic ‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller’ Aged Like Fine Wine. THE MUST-HEAR COMMENTARY LIST -CINEPHILIA AND BEYOND Here’s our selection, mostly from YouTube. Point Blank audio commentary with John Boorman and Steven Soderbergh. The Verdict audio commentary with Sidney Lumet and Paul Newman. The Third Man audio commentary with Steven Soderbergh and Tony Gilroy. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf audio commentary with Mike Nichols and StevenSoderbergh.
AN INTERVIEW WITH JACQUES TATI • CINEPHILIA & BEYOND An Interview with Jacques Tati. Jacques Tati visits Marlon Brando on the set of One-Eyed Jacks, 1961. Studs Terkel was a great fan of film, as evidenced by his many discussions with filmmakers, actors, and critics; and during his career he traveled to and recorded interviewsin
STANLEY KUBRICK’S ORIGINAL TREATMENT FOR 'THE SHINING Stanley Kubrick’s original treatment for ‘The Shining’. By Sven Mikulec. One of Stephen King’s most popular and celebrated novels, The Shining was initially conceived as the author’s family was staying at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. There, King developed a story of a haunted hotel, and since he had already givensome
FIXED IMAGES OF ETERNITY: TIME, PERCEPTION, & GRIEF IN Cinematography, Documentary, Filmmaking, Interview, Screenwriting 101. Fixed Images of Eternity: Time, Perception, & Grief in ‘Don’t Look Now’. By Jasun Horsley. The speaker is Death: There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said TERRENCE MALICK'S ‘DAYS OF HEAVEN’ IS ONE OF THE MOST The following video is an excerpt from an interview with John Bailey, a camera operator for Days of Heaven, who reveals Malick’s use of natural light and little artificial light to create the look of the film.It is well-known that Malick made great use of the “magichour,”
“IF YOU’RE GOING TO SELL YOUR SOUL TO THE DEVIL, THE By Tim Pelan. Not much of a one for describing his work, author Cormac McCarthy bluntly describes The Counselor, his first original screenplay, knocked out in five weeks apparently and directed by Ridley Scott in seven, as the story of Michael Fassbender’s eponymous lawyer, “a decent man who gets up one morning and decides to do something wrong.” “THERE IS NO AMERICAN MASTERPIECE MORE PRESCIENT THAN AND Robert Altman looks back at the making of Nashville. This cornerstone of 1970s American moviemaking from Robert Altman is a panoramic view of the country’s political and cultural landscapes, set in the nation’s music capital.BLUE VELVET
11 n v . -, 1 i i jje^v ^.t. BLUE VELVET rf Original Screenplay by w David Lynch Revised Third Draft August 24, 1984 Registered with WGAw Property of: Dino De laurentiis Corporation ORSON WELLES AND GREGG TOLAND: THEIR COLLABORATION ON 654 Robert L. Carringer Orson Welles and Gregg Toland Toland reported for work on Citizen Kane the first week in June.4 His arrival actually marked the beginning of the second major phase in HOME • CINEPHILIA & BEYONDABOUTPRESS AND TESTIMONIALSCONTACTSPONSORSHIPDONATE Home • Cinephilia & Beyond. Filmmaking. Universal Soldier? The Emersonian Combat Experience of Terrence Malick’s ‘The Thin Red Line’. ‘The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel’: The Perfect Window into the Mind of a Groundbreaking Artist. How Robert Altman’s Anti-Western Classic ‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller’ Aged Like Fine Wine. THE MUST-HEAR COMMENTARY LIST -CINEPHILIA AND BEYOND Here’s our selection, mostly from YouTube. Point Blank audio commentary with John Boorman and Steven Soderbergh. The Verdict audio commentary with Sidney Lumet and Paul Newman. The Third Man audio commentary with Steven Soderbergh and Tony Gilroy. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf audio commentary with Mike Nichols and StevenSoderbergh.
AN INTERVIEW WITH JACQUES TATI • CINEPHILIA & BEYOND An Interview with Jacques Tati. Jacques Tati visits Marlon Brando on the set of One-Eyed Jacks, 1961. Studs Terkel was a great fan of film, as evidenced by his many discussions with filmmakers, actors, and critics; and during his career he traveled to and recorded interviewsin
STANLEY KUBRICK’S ORIGINAL TREATMENT FOR 'THE SHINING Stanley Kubrick’s original treatment for ‘The Shining’. By Sven Mikulec. One of Stephen King’s most popular and celebrated novels, The Shining was initially conceived as the author’s family was staying at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. There, King developed a story of a haunted hotel, and since he had already givensome
FIXED IMAGES OF ETERNITY: TIME, PERCEPTION, & GRIEF IN Cinematography, Documentary, Filmmaking, Interview, Screenwriting 101. Fixed Images of Eternity: Time, Perception, & Grief in ‘Don’t Look Now’. By Jasun Horsley. The speaker is Death: There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said TERRENCE MALICK'S ‘DAYS OF HEAVEN’ IS ONE OF THE MOST The following video is an excerpt from an interview with John Bailey, a camera operator for Days of Heaven, who reveals Malick’s use of natural light and little artificial light to create the look of the film.It is well-known that Malick made great use of the “magichour,”
“IF YOU’RE GOING TO SELL YOUR SOUL TO THE DEVIL, THE By Tim Pelan. Not much of a one for describing his work, author Cormac McCarthy bluntly describes The Counselor, his first original screenplay, knocked out in five weeks apparently and directed by Ridley Scott in seven, as the story of Michael Fassbender’s eponymous lawyer, “a decent man who gets up one morning and decides to do something wrong.” “THERE IS NO AMERICAN MASTERPIECE MORE PRESCIENT THAN AND Robert Altman looks back at the making of Nashville. This cornerstone of 1970s American moviemaking from Robert Altman is a panoramic view of the country’s political and cultural landscapes, set in the nation’s music capital.BLUE VELVET
11 n v . -, 1 i i jje^v ^.t. BLUE VELVET rf Original Screenplay by w David Lynch Revised Third Draft August 24, 1984 Registered with WGAw Property of: Dino De laurentiis Corporation ORSON WELLES AND GREGG TOLAND: THEIR COLLABORATION ON 654 Robert L. Carringer Orson Welles and Gregg Toland Toland reported for work on Citizen Kane the first week in June.4 His arrival actually marked the beginning of the second major phase in “IF YOU’RE GOING TO SELL YOUR SOUL TO THE DEVIL, THE By Tim Pelan. Not much of a one for describing his work, author Cormac McCarthy bluntly describes The Counselor, his first original screenplay, knocked out in five weeks apparently and directed by Ridley Scott in seven, as the story of Michael Fassbender’s eponymous lawyer, “a decent man who gets up one morning and decides to do something wrong.” ‘MILLER'S CROSSING’ IS TOUCHING AND STUDIOUSLY CRAFTED The Coen brothers’ critically acclaimed Miller’s Crossing can be easily studied in two distinct ways. Firstly, it’s one hell of a gangster thriller, enriched by beautiful imagery, impeccably strong acting performances, a bulletproof screenplay and abundance of indelible details usually attached to the Coens’ filmmaking style. “THERE IS NO AMERICAN MASTERPIECE MORE PRESCIENT THAN AND Robert Altman looks back at the making of Nashville. This cornerstone of 1970s American moviemaking from Robert Altman is a panoramic view of the country’s political and cultural landscapes, set in the nation’s music capital. THE WEIRD WORLD OF EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE • CINEPHILIA & BEYOND 0:00 / 57:54. Live. •. A fantastic documentary on one of the key people in the history of cinema. A portrait of the pioneer photographer, forefather of cinema, showman, murderer— Eadweard Muybridge was a Victorian enigma. 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INTENTION IS EVERYTHING: CHRISTOPHER MCQUARRIE’S ‘THE WAY By Tim Pelan. Christopher McQuarrie’s directorial debut after his Oscar-winning screenplay success with The Usual Suspects (1995), The Way of the Gun (2000) is most often described as one of the best little action films you’ve never seen. A twisted tale of kidnap, scheming and plotting, where no-one gets out clean, and our heroes are two of the most unpleasant protagonists to ever vie for REGARDED AS ONE OF DAVID LEAN’S BEST FILMS, THE 1965 EPIC Regarded as one of David Lean’s best films, the 1965 epic romance Doctor Zhivago is a champion of accomplished filmmaking. We find it very interesting and amusing that a film that deals with the Russian revolution has become significant to the degree of being itself labeled revolutionary. 'THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY': THE EPITOME OF BRITISH GANGSTER Cast and Crew: The Long Good Friday brings together John MacKenzie, Barrie Keeffe, Barry Hanson, actor Derek Thompson, casting director Simone Reynolds to discuss the film, its making and its legacy. There are also interviews from Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. Watching Keeffe and MacKenzie around a table together, there is still the crackle of creative tension, as writer and director both lay THE MEN WHO MADE THE MOVIES: ALFRED HITCHCOCK (1973 The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock (1973) The Master of Suspense himself, who is interviewed extensively here, shares stories including his deep-seated fear of policemen, elaborates on the difference between shock and suspense, defines the meaning of MacGuffin, and discusses his use of storyboarding in designing a film. HOME • CINEPHILIA & BEYONDABOUTPRESS AND TESTIMONIALSCONTACTSPONSORSHIPDONATE Home • Cinephilia & Beyond. Filmmaking. Universal Soldier? 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'BILLY, HOW DID YOU DO IT?': A The Austrian-born filmmaker who would become one of the most important figures of American cinema, Billy Wilder could have been proud of a rich career filled with many movies now deemed true classics. FIXED IMAGES OF ETERNITY: TIME, PERCEPTION, & GRIEF IN Cinematography, Documentary, Filmmaking, Interview, Screenwriting 101. Fixed Images of Eternity: Time, Perception, & Grief in ‘Don’t Look Now’. By Jasun Horsley. The speaker is Death: There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said STANLEY KUBRICK'S BOXES Stanley Kubrick's Boxes. Documentary. “The thing is, nobody outside the Kubrick house got to see the boxes”. Stanley Kubrick’s films were landmark events—majestic, memorable and richly researched. But, as the years went by, the time between films grew longer and longer, and less and less was seen of the director. What on earth was hedoing?
STANLEY KUBRICK’S ORIGINAL TREATMENT FOR 'THE SHINING Stanley Kubrick's treatment of 'The Shining' By Sven Mikulec. One of Stephen King’s most popular and celebrated novels, The Shining was initially conceived as the author’s family was staying at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. There, King developed a story of a haunted hotel, and since he had already given some thought into writing a story of a boy with ESP, he simply put the two TAXI DRIVER: GOD'S LONELY POV God’s Lonely POV by Will McCrabb. In the last act of Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece Taxi Driver there is the ultimate visceral and violent manifestation of the protagonist Travis Bickle’s (as played by Robert De Niro) fractured psyche. He sets out to free a young prostitute by killing her pimp (Harvey Keitel) and any “johns” or door men involved. 'GOODFELLAS' AT 30: MARTIN SCORSESE’S ANTHROPOLOGICAL Goodfellas is based on the true-life story of Henry Hill (played by Ray Liotta), a low-level gangster from boyhood to manhood stretching through the 1960s and 1970s, turned FBI informer, as related by him to crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi in his book, Wise Guy: Life in a MafiaFamily.
BILLY WILDER ABOUT FILM NOIR • CINEPHILIA & BEYOND Cinematography, Filmmaking, Interview. Billy Wilder About Film Noir. Billy Wilder’s career stretches back to the late 1920s, when he collaborated on the scripts for several films made in Germany, including the classic semi-documentary People on Sunday (1929). When Hitler came into power, Wilder fled to France and eventually ended upin America.
KUROSAWA'S ‘KAGEMUSHA’: A POEM ABOUT HUMAN NATURE Kurosawa’s period drama is beautifully designed, abundant in colors, perfectly slow-paced and decorated with powerful, highly symbolic images. Kagemusha is a poem; an incredibly sad poem that loudly and bravely brings our attention to the fruitlessness of violence, the absurdity of human nature, the seductibility of the human spirit. 'THE ELEPHANT MAN': A PORTRAIT OF AN OUTCAST DEFEATING HIS By Lovorko Marić. David Lynch, a name that is for many film enthusiasts the epitome for weird, surreal, and bizarre, surprised many people when he had characterised HOME • CINEPHILIA & BEYONDABOUTPRESS AND TESTIMONIALSCONTACTSPONSORSHIPDONATEBATH AND BEYOND Home • Cinephilia & Beyond. Filmmaking. Universal Soldier? The Emersonian Combat Experience of Terrence Malick’s ‘The Thin Red Line’. ‘The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel’: The Perfect Window into the Mind of a Groundbreaking Artist. How Robert Altman’s Anti-Western Classic ‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller’ Aged Like Fine Wine. AN INTERVIEW WITH JACQUES TATI • CINEPHILIA & BEYOND An Interview with Jacques Tati. Jacques Tati visits Marlon Brando on the set of One-Eyed Jacks, 1961. Studs Terkel was a great fan of film, as evidenced by his many discussions with filmmakers, actors, and critics; and during his career he traveled to and recorded interviewsin
FIXED IMAGES OF ETERNITY: TIME, PERCEPTION, & GRIEF IN Cinematography, Documentary, Filmmaking, Interview, Screenwriting 101. Fixed Images of Eternity: Time, Perception, & Grief in ‘Don’t Look Now’. By Jasun Horsley. The speaker is Death: There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said A HITCHCOCK THRILLER THAT NEVER WAS: THE SHORT NIGHT A Hitchcock thriller that never was: The Short Night. Near the end of his life, Alfred Hitchcock had worked on the script for a projected spy thriller, The Short Night. The project was originally announced in the late 1960s at the time of Topaz and Hitchcock scouted locations in Finland. A romantic suspense thriller with espionage elements, the TAXI DRIVER: GOD'S LONELY POV God’s Lonely POV by Will McCrabb. In the last act of Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece Taxi Driver there is the ultimate visceral and violent manifestation of the protagonist Travis Bickle’s (as played by Robert De Niro) fractured psyche. He sets out to free a young prostitute by killing her pimp (Harvey Keitel) and any “johns” or door men involved. ‘MILLER'S CROSSING’ IS TOUCHING AND STUDIOUSLY CRAFTED The Coen brothers’ critically acclaimed Miller’s Crossing can be easily studied in two distinct ways. Firstly, it’s one hell of a gangster thriller, enriched by beautiful imagery, impeccably strong acting performances, a bulletproof screenplay and abundance of indelible details usually attached to the Coens’ filmmaking style. INTENTION IS EVERYTHING: CHRISTOPHER MCQUARRIE’S ‘THE WAY By Tim Pelan. Christopher McQuarrie’s directorial debut after his Oscar-winning screenplay success with The Usual Suspects (1995), The Way of the Gun (2000) is most often described as one of the best little action films you’ve never seen. A twisted tale of kidnap, scheming and plotting, where no-one gets out clean, and our heroes are two of the most unpleasant protagonists to ever vie for RIDLEY SCOTT’S ‘BLADE RUNNER’: A GAME-CHANGING SCIENCE Future Shocks (27 minutes), is a documentary about Blade Runner from 2003 made by TVOntario (as part of their Film 101 series), has interviews with executive producer Bud Yorkin, Syd Mead, and the cast along with Sean Young, but again without Harrison Ford. There is extensive commentary by science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer and film critics as the documentary focuses on the themes, visual 'THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY': THE EPITOME OF BRITISH GANGSTER Cast and Crew: The Long Good Friday brings together John MacKenzie, Barrie Keeffe, Barry Hanson, actor Derek Thompson, casting director Simone Reynolds to discuss the film, its making and its legacy. There are also interviews from Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. Watching Keeffe and MacKenzie around a table together, there is still the crackle of creative tension, as writer and director both lay ORSON WELLES AND GREGG TOLAND: THEIR COLLABORATION ONORSON WELLES BIOORSON WELLES CITIZEN KANE 1941ORSON WELLES MOVIES LISTORSON WELLESQUOTES
654 Robert L. Carringer Orson Welles and Gregg Toland Toland reported for work on Citizen Kane the first week in June.4 His arrival actually marked the beginning of the second major phase in HOME • CINEPHILIA & BEYONDABOUTPRESS AND TESTIMONIALSCONTACTSPONSORSHIPDONATEBATH AND BEYOND Home • Cinephilia & Beyond. Filmmaking. Universal Soldier? The Emersonian Combat Experience of Terrence Malick’s ‘The Thin Red Line’. ‘The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel’: The Perfect Window into the Mind of a Groundbreaking Artist. How Robert Altman’s Anti-Western Classic ‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller’ Aged Like Fine Wine. AN INTERVIEW WITH JACQUES TATI • CINEPHILIA & BEYOND An Interview with Jacques Tati. Jacques Tati visits Marlon Brando on the set of One-Eyed Jacks, 1961. Studs Terkel was a great fan of film, as evidenced by his many discussions with filmmakers, actors, and critics; and during his career he traveled to and recorded interviewsin
FIXED IMAGES OF ETERNITY: TIME, PERCEPTION, & GRIEF IN Cinematography, Documentary, Filmmaking, Interview, Screenwriting 101. Fixed Images of Eternity: Time, Perception, & Grief in ‘Don’t Look Now’. By Jasun Horsley. The speaker is Death: There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said A HITCHCOCK THRILLER THAT NEVER WAS: THE SHORT NIGHT A Hitchcock thriller that never was: The Short Night. Near the end of his life, Alfred Hitchcock had worked on the script for a projected spy thriller, The Short Night. The project was originally announced in the late 1960s at the time of Topaz and Hitchcock scouted locations in Finland. A romantic suspense thriller with espionage elements, the TAXI DRIVER: GOD'S LONELY POV God’s Lonely POV by Will McCrabb. In the last act of Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece Taxi Driver there is the ultimate visceral and violent manifestation of the protagonist Travis Bickle’s (as played by Robert De Niro) fractured psyche. He sets out to free a young prostitute by killing her pimp (Harvey Keitel) and any “johns” or door men involved. ‘MILLER'S CROSSING’ IS TOUCHING AND STUDIOUSLY CRAFTED The Coen brothers’ critically acclaimed Miller’s Crossing can be easily studied in two distinct ways. Firstly, it’s one hell of a gangster thriller, enriched by beautiful imagery, impeccably strong acting performances, a bulletproof screenplay and abundance of indelible details usually attached to the Coens’ filmmaking style. INTENTION IS EVERYTHING: CHRISTOPHER MCQUARRIE’S ‘THE WAY By Tim Pelan. Christopher McQuarrie’s directorial debut after his Oscar-winning screenplay success with The Usual Suspects (1995), The Way of the Gun (2000) is most often described as one of the best little action films you’ve never seen. A twisted tale of kidnap, scheming and plotting, where no-one gets out clean, and our heroes are two of the most unpleasant protagonists to ever vie for RIDLEY SCOTT’S ‘BLADE RUNNER’: A GAME-CHANGING SCIENCE Future Shocks (27 minutes), is a documentary about Blade Runner from 2003 made by TVOntario (as part of their Film 101 series), has interviews with executive producer Bud Yorkin, Syd Mead, and the cast along with Sean Young, but again without Harrison Ford. There is extensive commentary by science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer and film critics as the documentary focuses on the themes, visual 'THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY': THE EPITOME OF BRITISH GANGSTER Cast and Crew: The Long Good Friday brings together John MacKenzie, Barrie Keeffe, Barry Hanson, actor Derek Thompson, casting director Simone Reynolds to discuss the film, its making and its legacy. There are also interviews from Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. Watching Keeffe and MacKenzie around a table together, there is still the crackle of creative tension, as writer and director both lay ORSON WELLES AND GREGG TOLAND: THEIR COLLABORATION ONORSON WELLES BIOORSON WELLES CITIZEN KANE 1941ORSON WELLES MOVIES LISTORSON WELLESQUOTES
654 Robert L. Carringer Orson Welles and Gregg Toland Toland reported for work on Citizen Kane the first week in June.4 His arrival actually marked the beginning of the second major phase in THE MUST-HEAR COMMENTARY LIST -CINEPHILIA AND BEYOND Here’s our selection, mostly from YouTube. Point Blank audio commentary with John Boorman and Steven Soderbergh. The Verdict audio commentary with Sidney Lumet and Paul Newman. The Third Man audio commentary with Steven Soderbergh and Tony Gilroy. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf audio commentary with Mike Nichols and StevenSoderbergh.
'BILLY, HOW DID YOU DO IT?': A The Austrian-born filmmaker who would become one of the most important figures of American cinema, Billy Wilder could have been proud of a rich career filled with many movies now deemed true classics. FIXED IMAGES OF ETERNITY: TIME, PERCEPTION, & GRIEF IN Cinematography, Documentary, Filmmaking, Interview, Screenwriting 101. Fixed Images of Eternity: Time, Perception, & Grief in ‘Don’t Look Now’. By Jasun Horsley. The speaker is Death: There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said STANLEY KUBRICK'S BOXES Stanley Kubrick's Boxes. Documentary. “The thing is, nobody outside the Kubrick house got to see the boxes”. Stanley Kubrick’s films were landmark events—majestic, memorable and richly researched. But, as the years went by, the time between films grew longer and longer, and less and less was seen of the director. What on earth was hedoing?
STANLEY KUBRICK’S ORIGINAL TREATMENT FOR 'THE SHINING Stanley Kubrick's treatment of 'The Shining' By Sven Mikulec. One of Stephen King’s most popular and celebrated novels, The Shining was initially conceived as the author’s family was staying at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. There, King developed a story of a haunted hotel, and since he had already given some thought into writing a story of a boy with ESP, he simply put the two TAXI DRIVER: GOD'S LONELY POV God’s Lonely POV by Will McCrabb. In the last act of Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece Taxi Driver there is the ultimate visceral and violent manifestation of the protagonist Travis Bickle’s (as played by Robert De Niro) fractured psyche. He sets out to free a young prostitute by killing her pimp (Harvey Keitel) and any “johns” or door men involved. 'GOODFELLAS' AT 30: MARTIN SCORSESE’S ANTHROPOLOGICAL Goodfellas is based on the true-life story of Henry Hill (played by Ray Liotta), a low-level gangster from boyhood to manhood stretching through the 1960s and 1970s, turned FBI informer, as related by him to crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi in his book, Wise Guy: Life in a MafiaFamily.
BILLY WILDER ABOUT FILM NOIR • CINEPHILIA & BEYOND Cinematography, Filmmaking, Interview. Billy Wilder About Film Noir. Billy Wilder’s career stretches back to the late 1920s, when he collaborated on the scripts for several films made in Germany, including the classic semi-documentary People on Sunday (1929). When Hitler came into power, Wilder fled to France and eventually ended upin America.
KUROSAWA'S ‘KAGEMUSHA’: A POEM ABOUT HUMAN NATURE Kurosawa’s period drama is beautifully designed, abundant in colors, perfectly slow-paced and decorated with powerful, highly symbolic images. Kagemusha is a poem; an incredibly sad poem that loudly and bravely brings our attention to the fruitlessness of violence, the absurdity of human nature, the seductibility of the human spirit. 'THE ELEPHANT MAN': A PORTRAIT OF AN OUTCAST DEFEATING HIS By Lovorko Marić. David Lynch, a name that is for many film enthusiasts the epitome for weird, surreal, and bizarre, surprised many people when he had characterised__
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RAJENDRA THAKURATHI’S THE DISHWASHER: THE PRICE OF THE AMERICANDREAM
Rajendra Thakurathi’s The Dishwasher is an important short film on several different layers. First of all, it should be said…Filmmakers to Watch
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KHEAVEN LEWANDOWSKI, DIRECTOR OF ‘RIVER’: ‘MAKING FILMS FOR A LIVING IS A PRIVILEGE’ Excited by his inspired and visually captivating short film River, we decided to have a little chat with Kheaven Lewandowski,…*
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