Award-winning director Neil Marshall may have been nominated for an Emmy for helming the medieval fantasy “Game of Thrones” episode “The Watchers on the Wall” but his heart remains in the eighties. Let him tell you why…
COMPOUND CINEMATICS: AKIRA KUROSAWA AND I
An extraordinary first-hand account of collaborating with the great Akira Kurosawa by the screenwriter of “Rashomon,” “Ikiru” & “Seven Samurai,” Shinobu Hashimoto.
EXT. MANHATTAN | “5 TO 7” FILMMAKER VICTOR LEVIN GIVES US HIS TAKE
It wasn’t quite Murphy’s Law, but when writer-director Victor Levin shot his first feature, “5 to 7,” in New York City, let’s just say that not everything went according to plan. You got a problem with that?
DALE SHERMAN’S – QUENTIN TARANTINO FAQ
Dale Sherman shares an excerpt on the frequent visuals and concepts in Tarantino films from his insightful new book “Quentin Tarantino FAQ: Everything Left to Know About the Original Reservoir Dogs.”
SIMON HELBERG ON “WE’LL NEVER HAVE PARIS”
The structure of We’ll Never Have Paris is pretty true to life. It’s my story, when I was somewhat young and in the midst of a quarter-life crisis: I break up with the love of my life and then realize I’ve made a huge mistake and try to win her back. I don’t know what came first; the idea or the breakup. I got caught in sort of a spiral of neuroses. To say I lost some perspective is an understatement.
PIECE OF “CAKE” | DIRECTOR DANIEL BARNZ SHARES A CINEMATIC SLICE
On my office wall is an index card with a quote from the great John Boorman: “If I don’t know what a film is about, I go on to make it.” I knew Cake was about navigating loss, but somehow I didn’t connect it to my own experiences of loss until embarrassingly late to the game.
“IMITATION” PRODUCERS NORA GROSSMAN & IDO OSTROWSKY CRACK THE CODE
Before we started working on The Imitation Game, we’d both been working in television for some time and found ourselves between jobs and slightly directionless. A mutual friend of ours suggested we meet in order to ward off the loneliness and desperation that can sometimes result from unintended unemployment. We’d meet at coffee houses —
IN “THEORY” | SCREENWRITER ANTHONY MCCARTEN & PRODUCER LISA BRUCE SPILL “EVERYTHING”
In 2004, long before we had even secured the rights to Jane Hawking’s book, Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, Anthony was so captivated by Stephen and Jane’s story that he wrote a screenplay adaptation. It was a risk, but worth it, because he knew that even if he never got the rights, he …
HIDE ‘N SEEK
Every film is an illusion, a brilliant phantasmagoria of sights flickering across a screen at twenty-four frames a second (forty-eight, if you’re Peter Jackson and want to annoy us). Most directors are content to dazzle …
DIVIDE & CONQUER
Somewhere in the celestial archives of pop culture, a magazine cartoon from the 1950s shows a circus seal balancing a beach ball on his nose as he tells his audience: “Frankly, I’d rather direct.” …