"The reel deal. From the first movies of the 20th century to the modern films of today, writers, producers, directors, actors, and entire moviemaking teams have worked together to make movie magic. Let's meet these moviemakers!" -- Back cover.
... High Sierra, White Heat and They Died with Their Boots On. You would think the interior world of Ingmar Bergman and the rugged world of Raoul Walsh would be poles apart, but the Swedish auteur wrote in Bergman on Bergman that the ...
Collects American Film Institute conversations with filmmakers from the 1950s to today, including Steven Spielberg, Nora Ephron, and George Lucas.
David Hedison, who plays a tiny human-headed insect menaced by a spider at the climax of the SF classic The Fly (1958), says the moviemakers spoiled the scene by giving...
Hop- per is a revelation in the role of Morgan, a part he clearly iden- tified with, while David Gulpilil Original poster artwork of the Ozploitation flick Mad Dog Morgan (1976), directed by Philippe Mora and starring the irrepressible ...
Despite this, Oshii is known as a maverick within anime: a self-proclaimed 'stray dog'. This is the first book to take an in-depth look at his major films, from Urusei Yatsura to Avalon .
DL: Honestly Mr. & Mrs. Smith I consider my most flawed of movies. But given the constraints and the politics of making a movie like that I could not be more proud of it. It's a movie where I'm still working on the director's cut.
Behind-the-scenes interviews with special-effects people, designers, animators, and others responsible for making motion pictures.
At that time, I couldn't figure out a way to make Foster work as a feature, I couldn't find a structure as my creative mojo had disappeared. And so that opportunity fizzled out. But we will come back to Foster later.
There's a scene in Day for Night, a wonderful Truffaut picture, where you see this little kid sneak into a theater and steal the still photographs from Citizen Kane from a movie display. Like most youngsters of my generation, ...
This book turns a long-overdue spotlight on many who made memorable contributions to that crowded, exhilarating filmmaking scene.