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In 1971, the lawman who does as he pleases strutted through movies like
‘The French Connection.’ But Black filmmakers found an alternative version.
READ >> Horror Movie Fans Are Having an Easier Time Dealing With the Pandemic
Researchers are examining whether the “extreme feelings” prompted by horror
flicks could benefit our mental health, now that every day is terrifying.
READ >> Martin Scorsese Remembers Cinematographer Michael Chapman
“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.”
READ >> COVID shut down his set. How Paul Schrader finished shooting ‘The Card Counter’ in 5 days.
“It was an adventure for five days,
it’s a nightmare for five weeks.”
READ >> Peter Benchley thrown off the set of JAWS
Author Peter Benchley took issue with the ending of Steven Spielberg’s iconic
Jaws adaptation, and ended up getting himself thrown off the set.
WATCH >> Lumière and Company
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.
WATCH >> Cinema, Politics and War with Oliver Stone
“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.”
WATCH >> Francis Ford Coppola reflects on his filmography
“You’re always true to yourself. No matter what, you bet on your instincts.”
READ >> Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker
David Mikics’s “Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker” is a cool, cerebral book about a cool,
cerebral talent. This is not a full-dress biography — there have been several of Kubrick
— but a brisk study of his films, with enough of the life tucked in to add context as
well as brightness and bite.
WATCH >> Michael Haneke – Cinematic Truths and Reality Lies
Personal stories bleed into social decay and vice-versa. One can not exist without the other.
To lack an understanding of the cohesion between the both is how Haneke
communicates the failure of communication in societies.