He also
talks about the filmmaking style that he brought to the film and how he worked with the various acting styles in the movie.
Some just took the opportunity to
learn about filmmaking when it came along, found they liked it enormously, and decided to stick with it.
While this device seems natural and obvious in a
film about filmmaking, it is unusual for it to be used in such a sustained way.
Being my graduation film, I have learned pretty much everything I know
about filmmaking from making this film.
I actually moved your post to a new section of the forum that I just created, specifically for
discussion about filmmaking equipment and advice.
Most of Godard's»60s movies could fill this slot, but this is the filmmaker at his most widescreen epic and self - reflexive during this period, and as the whore who couldn't turn the trick, he made the greatest
movie about the filmmaking process ever made.
Along with Lost in La Mancha, about director Terry Gilliam's failed attempt to adapt Don Quixote, Jodorowsky's Dune ranks as one of the best
documentaries about filmmaking ever made.
In this video, I delve into the hidden layers of the film, and talk
about the filmmaking on display, and my thoughts on the metaphorical journey of The Driver.
But ultimately that's what's
great about his filmmaking, and The Raid 2 in particular: Where the first film felt like a gritty, hardcore tribute to the martial artists and films that inspired it, this one blooms more fully, not only feeling like its own entity, but offering much thrills that are significantly more democratic.
In fact, she's often spoken about how many of her editors (including at the Village Voice) were uninterested in pieces
about filmmaking in Latin America.
The brothers don't know
much about filmmaking, so they decide to do a remake of the 1949 Cagliostro by Gregory Ratoff that featured Orson Welles.
She learned
about filmmaking as an assistant to a number of notable directors, including Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas, Wings of Desire), Jim Jarmusch (Down by Law), and Costa - Gavras (Hanna K.).
At this year's DOC NYC festival, 15 of the filmmakers behind the year's buzziest documentaries sat down to answer
questions about their filmmaking process, offering wisdom and perspective on the craft of documentary.
«The Disaster Artist» is an entertaining movie, not
just about filmmaking but about brotherhood — metaphorically speaking in terms of Wiseau and Sestero — and literally, in the relationship between Dave and James Franco.
Janicza explains that she started out as a wardrobe stylist and learned all she
knows about filmmaking on movie sets.
The result is a treat: while Crowe has plenty of insightful
recollections about the filmmaking process and talks effusively, taking the opportunity to plug any gaps left by the three stars, who are all recovering from Cruise's birthday party the previous night and have an enormous amount of fun watching their slightly younger selves on the screen (visible in the video commentary as a small window at the bottom of the screen).
But who really
cares about filmmaking fundamentals when the force of aggression registers off the charts, working countless fights and agreeable acts of heroism into a superbly entertaining blast of brutality.
Sean Rom talks to director Tran Anh
Hung about his filmmaking process, adapting Murakami's acclaimed novel Norwegian Wood to screen and presenting sensuality on film.
It's a print version of a week - long, in - depth
exchange about the filmmaking process Francois Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock shared in 1962 that's influenced virtually every prominent filmmaker since the book's release.
At Locarno, Jeremy Elphick spoke to SCARY MOTHER team Ana Urushadze and Nata
Murvanidze about the filmmaking process in Georgia, the hurdles in acquiring funding, and the dynamics of directing a feature and working with a large crew at young age.
Colombian filmmakers Laura Huertas Millán and Lina Rodriguez talk
about filmmaking between cultures, the visible and invisible, and how to cook on film
Moreover, the
jokes about filmmaking directed at Ti West's character should go down well with horror movie fans.
Most important, though, is how Johnson makes us think about how he has put his own movie together as a way to engage our
curiosity about the filmmaking process.
A few good notes from director Mira
Nair about her filmmaking intentions and from the actors on their roles help keep this from becoming too glossy.
More straightforward comedies
about filmmaking continued to be made, including a subgenre of nostalgic ones about the early days of the motion picture, like Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly's Singin» in the Rain (1952) and Carl Reiner's The Comic (1969).
In Richard Schickel's The Men Who Made the Movies: Sam Fuller (2002), the great Sam Fuller discusses his
philosophy about filmmaking, life experiences, specific films and key scenes in his movies.
Above: a 1983 interview with Michael
Mann about filmmaking and The Keep, from The Electric Theatre Show: «Mann talked about the power of dreams, and moving The Keep story out of the horror genre of the novel and into a dream reality.
On learning
about filmmaking Lloyd said: «When I came to Hollywood, I didn't know the front end of the camera from the back.
Although
filmmaking about filmmaking would seem like an incestuous topic, probably only appealing to others in the industry, it actually is one of the most fascinating subjects for movies, letting us see the trials and tribulations of trying to transform a personal vision into «reality,» a personal vision that often involves dozens, of not hundreds of others who all have their own feelings on how things should be done.
What was
once about filmmaking quickly turned into about what should win best picture, and then devolved into film critics offering their own pet theories about history and trashing the legacy of Abraham Lincoln.
For a blockbusting action epic, OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN has quietly
gone about its filmmaking business, pretty much under the radar.
When you
hear about filmmaking outside of foreign films and independent productions, you mostly hear about Hollywood because its success was, has been and continues to be massive, even in the face of worldwide competition (Bollywood, China, etc.) and newcomers in the U.S. (semi-Hollywood still in the hands of internet companies flush with cash) but that is not the whole story.