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Even after 30 years (!) The Player remains on my personal ‘high rotation’ list. It remains a complete joy, from beginning to end. Photo: Griffin Mill at work in his Hollywood office. 10 April 2022 | Noah Gittell | The Guardian | With additional videos, photos and links Watching Robert Altman’s The Player nearly 30…
When asked to write essays on their favourite Steven Spielberg movie, Edgar Wright jumped on the phone and had a 45-minute discussion with Spielberg about Duel Photo: Dennis Weaver in Duel Original: 31 MARCH 2018 HAWKINS BAY 05 March 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News 27 March 2018 | Edgar Wright | Empire “When we…
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He was ‘trying to get it to look like it did at the original screening, when it was only two weeks old, not 20 years old or 50 years old.” Photo: The wedding, where Brando dances with Talia Shire, was intended to be overly bright in contrast with interior scenes.Credit – Paramount Pictures (cropped) 23…
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The film and TV writer answers your questions on advising Boris Johnson, dining with Alan Partridge and more 24 February 2022 | Rich Pelley | The Guardian | With additional material The film and TV writer answers your questions on advising Boris Johnson, dining with Alan Partridge characters and whether he still has OJ’s confession…
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From Ghostbusters to Animal House, to an off-Broadway Lampoon revue that featured John Belushi, Gilda Radner and Bill Murray. Photo: Filmmaker Ivan Reitman poses for a portrait at Montecito Restaurant, in Toronto, on June 30, 2016. (Eduardo Lima/The Canadian Press) Ivan Reitman, the influential filmmaker and producer behind many of the most beloved comedies of the…
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The visual effects artist and director was known for his innovative work on 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Blade Runner Photo: Douglas Trumbull on the set of 1977’s ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ COURTESY EVERETT COLLECTION 11 February 2022 | Ryan Gilbey | The Guardian Asked in 1978 to…
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Given our current state of affairs, it might be said that Mr. Stone has made a documentary for future generations. They will certainly discover a detailed examination of events. 12 July 2021 | Stephen Dalton | Hollywood Reporter Oliver Stone returns to the scene of the crime in his new documentary, JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass,…
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Irvine Welsh’s verdict on the script (‘too effete’), the problem with the excrement scene … the cast and crew relive the making of the classic 1996 film Photo: Ewan McGregor as Renton 25 October 2021 | Jay Glennie | The Guardian All photographs courtesy Jay Glennie/Trainspotting Team Danny Boyle’s annotated copy of Trainspotting Letter from…
Photo: Gene Hackman in The French Connection. Photograph: Allstar/20thCentury Fox/Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar 09 October 2021 | Scott Tobias | The Guardian The advantage of shooting on location is that fiction films can have the texture of a documentary, preserving forever a specific time and place before it inevitably evolves or devolves or take a form that will…
The filmmaker has been quietly making small, eerie collages on newsprint for 20 years, with faces switched onto other bodies. Photo: “I can work on them anywhere,” Jarmusch said of his collages. “I make them in hotel rooms. Most of the time I do it between the rigors of making a film.”Credit…Josefina Santos for The…
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Acclaimed for his work on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “The Cosby Show,” he also made a crucial casting decision about “The Golden Girls.” Photo: Bettmann, via Getty Images 27 September 2021 | Richard Sandomir | New York Times Jay Sandrich, a prolific sitcom director who won Emmy Awards for the two series he…
Youth Unstoppable is a new documentary, filmed over eight years, documenting the rise of the youth climate movement, told through the eyes of youth climate activists. Photo: Youth Unstoppable screenshot 22 September 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media Youth Unstoppable follows award-winning filmmaker Slater Jewell-Kemer on her 8 year documentation of the Global Youth Climate…
