The most wonderful film
about filmmaking ever.
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.
Not exact matches
The panel turned out to be one of the best I've
ever seen at Comic Con, as Guillermo del Toro and Nicolas Winding Refn spent most of it firing questions back and forth at one another and talking
about their approach to
filmmaking.
Alongside directors, nations and material cultures, there are also specific themes — sometimes less materialist and more tuned in to the utopian possibilities of the imagination — that can be drawn out from the
ever - swirling mass of experiments in
filmmaking and creative writing
about film.
And
ever since, the best comedies
about filmmaking have been created by those who, like the Tramp, cheerfully stick their tongues out at the camera while knowing in their hearts they can never tear themselves away from it.
Paul Thomas Anderson for teaching me that it's ALL
about the script and if you have the right actors directors don't have to do anything on set but be a fan, Lumet for his films and his book, a young directors» must read, Coppola for his courage in
filmmaking, Steven Soderberg for refusing to
ever be put in a box and pushing the form as far as he can, Kathryn Bigelow for giving masterclasses in action, James Cameron for Terminator 2 and prove big budget cinema can still be perfect cinema, Sean Penn for bringing his acting chops to directing, David Mamet for his scripts and his dialogue, Nolan for having more heart than most people seem to give him credit for (Memento, Rises, Inception and Interstellar all made me cry.)
1969 was an extraordinary year for filmmakers and
filmmaking, at least as important as the fabled thoughts and felling
about 1939 (also a great year), but this film was subtly groundbreaking and with the rollback of rights, et al, seems as fresh as
ever despite being set in the near past.
Reminiscent of Taxi Driver (which Schrader wrote), First Reformed is an arthouse miracle of
filmmaking and one of the most impactful, poignant, thought - provoking movies
about faith
ever made.
Something of a cult classic, «American Movie» may be the finest movie
ever made
about filmmaking, or at the very least, the funniest.
Far and away the best movie
ever made
about a sentient, psychokinetic, serial killing tire, «Rubber» brilliantly satirizes slasher films, road movies, and
filmmaking in general.