WATCH >> Dear Basketball BTS
“You’re animating the invisible thing, the hidden motivations in the heart.”
READ >> Long Live the Microcinema
Commercial industrial spaces such as multiplexes may lurch into gear or grind to a halt again. But as a fellow repertory enthusiast, Nick Pinkerton, memorably put it recently, “If it’s me and your nan projecting 16 mm, cinema is alive.”
READ >> Filmmaker Mag rehashes 1997 Interview with David Cronenberg
“I don’t know if Oliver Stone really enjoys what he does in terms of controversy.
I feel without ever having met him that maybe he is a more combative and
confrontational kind of person than I am. And maybe he’s truly gleeful when he upsets people.
I’m not. If everyone who saw Crash said, “I enjoyed it,” I’d be perfectly happy.”
Gus Van Sant: ‘We are living in a wilder time than anything we could imagine’
“I live by myself, so being quarantined was very
similar to how I live anyway.”
READ >> Bill Murray vs. Richard Donner on the set of SCROOGED
“Working with Murray is like standing on 42nd Street and Broadway,
and the lights are out, and you’re the traffic cop.”
READ >> Iñárritu Celebrates 20th Anniversary of ‘Amores Perros’ with a Reunion
Iñárritu thanked Alejandro Soberón for exceeding his $1.5 million budget cap to
“risk his money, on a bunch of crazy people trying to do this film.”
READ >> From A Christmas Story to Black Christmas, the films of Bob Clark
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?
WATCH >> Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Just Installed the Only Surviving Shark Model from ‘Jaws’
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.
READ >> Martin Scorsese: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
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.
READ >> ‘Shaft’ Was Much More Than a Supercop
In 1971, the lawman who does as he pleases strutted through movies like
‘The French Connection.’ But Black filmmakers found an alternative version.