What if I told you that the director of one of the most heartwarming and beloved Christmas
movies of all time is the same director as probably the most terrifying and
disturbing yuletide horror films of all time?
The behind-the-scenes footage of the shark from Jaws being installed at
LA’s Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, specifically the only
surviving model from Steven Spielberg’s classic.
Martin Scorsese is 78 today. In honor of his birthday, we’re sharing this edition of
Things I’ve Learned as a MovieMaker, first published on Nov. 29, 2007.
Since then he’s made Hugo, The Wolf of Wall Street,
Silence and The Irishman.
In 1971, the lawman who does as he pleases strutted through movies like
‘The French Connection.’ But Black filmmakers found an alternative version.
Researchers are examining whether the “extreme feelings” prompted by horror
flicks could benefit our mental health, now that every day is terrifying.
“I consider myself so fortunate to have been able to work with Michael Chapman.
Michael and I made three films together—’Taxi Driver,’ ‘The Last Waltz,’ and ‘Raging Bull,’
and he brought something rare and irreplaceable to each of them.”
“It was an adventure for five days,
it’s a nightmare for five weeks.”
Author Peter Benchley took issue with the ending of Steven Spielberg’s iconic
Jaws adaptation, and ended up getting himself thrown off the set.
Lumière and Company was a collaboration between 41 international film directors
in which each made a short film using the original Cinématographe camera
invented by the Lumière brothers.
“Death, it’s never what you think it’s going to be. It always comes up in another way,
it’s sloppy sometimes. A battle is always just confusion, breaking down, things don’t work.
It’s like what Mike Tyson said ‘your plan goes out the window when you get hit in the face’
… that’s the way it goes.”