GO TO>> Hitchcocktober @ Village East Cinema
North by Northwest, Notorious, Vertigo, Rebecca, Psycho
LISTEN >> ‘The Godfather’ Made Sofia Coppola Protective of Actors
“I think having acted in a movie was not my thing at all, I wasn’t comfortable at all, but I was at an age where I was like, “I’ll try anything.” But now when I’m on set I know how vulnerable an actor can be or I feel protective because I feel like I have to make it as comfortable as I can because you have to reveal yourself and I try to make the atmosphere as much in the feeling of the way you want the scene to be.”
READ >> The Lodger: The First True Hitchcock Movie
“We are so used to thinking of Alfred Hitchcock as the Master of Suspense that it comes as a surprise to realize that he was nearly a decade into his career as a director before he definitively latched on to the genre that was to become his stock-in-trade.”
GO TO >> NEW YORK IN THE 70s
Midnight Cowboy, Taking Off, News From Home, Gloria, The Panic in Needle Park, Serpico, The French Connection, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Saturday Night Fever, Klute, Dog Day Afternoon, Where’s poppa?, Born To Win, Godspell, The Wiz, A New Leaf, Such Good Friends, Cruising, Shaft, Super Fly, Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, Network, Husbands, Interiors, Hospital, Three Days of the Condor, All That Jazz, Marathon Man, Manhattan, Across 110th Street, Dressed to Kill, Warriors, Escape From New York
WATCH >> Documentary: “What is Brazil?”
‘It’s half a dream and half a nightmare.”
LISTEN >> Thelma Schoonmaker: Martin Scorsese’s Secret Weapon
“…with a face and demeanor like your favorite grade school teacher—may be the last person you’d imagine to helm the epic violence of Martin Scorsese’s films. Yet this earnest, soft spoken woman has edited every single movie he’s done since Raging Bull. The two’s relationship is considered one of the most successful working marriages in movie history…”
READ >> Early Works Juliette Binoche
“Turning down Jurassic Park was not an easy decision. You don’t have Spielberg calling you every morning and asking you to be in a big blockbuster. At the same time, taking risks is in my roots—as an artist, you want to go to the new. Of course, Jurassic Park that would have been totally new to me. But I was so touched by the story of Three Colors: Blue, because a friend of mine who had lost her husband and child, so for me it was a dedication to her.”
READ >> Remembering the man Who Brought King Kong to Life
O’Brien’s revolutionary stop-motion special effects in King Kong created a living, breathing, sympathetic monster that audiences connected with on a visceral level. He brought to life a character who has persisted throughout pop culture for almost a century…
READ >> Herr Fassbinder’s Trip to Heaven
Dionysiac excess was the norm: he drank all day, snorted snowdrifts of coke like a vacuum and gorged on barbiturates by the bagful but work was all that mattered. He spent the next day behind the camera shooting his new project, editing its predecessor at night, and writing whatever was next until dawn.“I really have a drive that’s hard to explain,” he said, “I’m actually only happy when I’m doing things and that’s my drug, if you will.”
READ >> Geoff Pevere on the Sequences in Cinema That Haunt His Dreams
“The first public screening of the Lumiére brothers’ wondrous new moving-picture machine took place in Paris in March of 1895. This was the same year that a 39-year-old Viennese neurologist named Sigmund Freud published a co-authored book, with Joseph Breuer, called Studies on Hysteria. The two events might have seemed worlds apart at the time, but their historical coincidence now looks like providence: no medium would quite as potently suggest Freud’s emerging formulation of the unconscious and its nocturnal operations as the movies.”