Tag: filmmaking

  • Through the Olive Trees

    When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.

  • Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump

    A look behind the scenes of Robert Zemeckis’ 1994 Oscar-winning film, ‘Forrest Gump’.

  • A Rainy Day in New York

    Two young people arrive in New York to spend a weekend, but once they arrive they’re met with bad weather and a series of adventures.

  • Salaam Cinema

    Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to make a movie about the casting and the screen tests of the would-be actors.

  • Viva Erotica

    Sing’s last two films were flops, but he is given the helm on a Category III sex film and has to cope with a leading lady who won’t do nude scenes, Triad backers, and a crumbling relationship with his girlfriend.

  • Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock’s Favorite Film

    A short documentary about the Making Of Hitchcock’s “Shadow of a Doubt” (1943).

  • By Player

    The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama’s life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the camera as if she is addressing Tonoyama himself, recollecting events in his life. The film focuses on Tonoyama’s alcohol dependence and his various sexual relationships, as well as his film work with Shindo.

  • Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens – A Life in Animation

    This biography, shown on American television as part of the PBS “Great Performances” series, examines the life works of one of Hollywood’s most celebrated animators, Chuck (Charles M.) Jones. He is best known for Warner Brothers cartoons featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig, Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, and Pepe LePew. Included are plenty of behind-the-scenes descriptions of how an animated film is made, and (best of all) many clips from Chuck’s cartoons.

  • State and Main

    A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz.

  • RKO 281

    In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater, and, hired by RKO Pictures, moves to Hollywood with the purpose of making his first film.