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James Cameron and Peter Jackson discuss the future of movies
The world of filmmaking is changing drastically and to understand how the technology is being shaped and used by current filmmakers, it’s often better to hear it straight from the horse’s mouth. James Cameron and Peter Jackson are the ki...
Terry Gilliam’s new movie features Heath Ledger’s final role
When its young star, Heath Ledger, died mid-production in January 2008, it seemed a foregone conclusion that The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, the film he was in the middle of shooting, was finished. Three weeks later, the producers announced th...
New Nancy Meyers movie demands her perfectionism
Movie directors are a demanding lot. It’s understandable when so much on the line both in front and behind the camera. Inside her home — just like on the sets of her films — Nancy Meyers rules the roost. On a recent December after...
Creating a Scene - directors describe pivotal scenes in their movies
Several directors describe a pivotal scene in their films and how it came to about - including Pedro Almodovar and Jason Reitman. READ ARTICLE AT LA TIMES Related posts:Director Pedro Almodóvar to blog new film ‘Broken Hugs’ Pedro ...
Orson Welles television vision never quite took off
When we think of Orson Welles and television, the impulse is often to smirk. The innumerable talk-show appearances, though reliably entertaining, couldn’t help but seem sad in comparison to his earlier triumphs. And those ads for the likes o...
Director Bryan Singer to return to Xmen franchise
Bryan Singer may be returning to the franchise that first made him famous: X-Men. Speaking on the blue carpet for James Cameron’s Avatar earlier this week, Singer reportedly said that he has just signed a deal with Fox to direct the next X-Men...
Quentin Tarantino’s Favorite Movies of 2009
When a movie director speaks of favorite movies, acolytes tend to listen up. So it’s the end of the year and we expect publications and websites to start making their best-of list right about now. But it’s odd when a working movie direct...
Movie director John Hillcoat discusses “The Road”
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Peter Jackson’s filmic evolution
Peter Jackson is a busy man. In just over 30 years the Kiwi director/producer has flourished from being a wannabe filmmaker with a penchant for splatter and gore, to being a bonafide Oscar-winner with one of the most enviable writing partnerships in...
Movie Directing Lessons - Clint Eastwood practices fiscal discipline
To be a successful director in Hollywood, you need talent; a vision; a knack for picking the right material and projects and stars; and all the leadership qualities necessary to marshal and inspire a small army of actors, crew members and production...
Gucci fashion maven Tom Ford makes his directorial movie debut
IT is a wonder that Tom Ford, the former creative director of Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent who turned louche sexuality into high fashion in the 1990s, didn’t try his hand at directing a movie sooner. On a recent Wednesday, Mr. Ford walked across a...
Director James McTeigue shoots for film noir take on ‘Ninja Assasin’
James McTeigue, the Aussie filmmaker behind the big screen adaptation of “V for Vendetta,” is back with “Ninja Assassin,” which hits theaters on Wednesday. Korean pop sensation Rain plays Raizo, who was kidnapped as a child by the Oz...
Director John Woo on making ‘Red Cliff’
JOHN WOO HAS DREAMED of adapting “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” his entire life. The Hong Kong-born director first read the epic Chinese novel as a boy, and 40 years later he has finally turned the story into “Red Cliff,” w...
INTERVIEW: ‘Ninja Assassin’ director James McTeigue talks
The 1980s were the heyday of the ninjas. “The Ninja” by Eric Van Lustbader topped the book charts, and movies like “American Ninja” were the flickering fantasy in every boy’s eyes. Heck, even “Magnum P.I.” h...
Director Richard Linklater discusses Orson Welles
Richard Linklater will thankfully never be pigeonholed as a genre director. His body of work ranges from indie films such as the counterculture defining Slacker, to studio projects like School of Rock, to the socially conscious and unapologetic ...
The fantastic Wes Anderson - return of an auteur?
Director Wes Anderson is featured in this profile of his screen work and the enigma of directing an animation film called The Fantastic Mr Fox. The premise is can Anderson reclaim his auteur status a decade after he produced grand movies like Rushmo...
INTERVIEW: ‘2012′ Director Roland Emmerich
After once laying waste to the White House and and twice devastating New York, disaster-genre kingpin Roland Emmerich leaves no metropolis unwrecked in his new blockbuster 2012. The whole globe, in fact, gets the Emmerich treatment, from a 10.5 Los...
Movie director Martin Scorsese talks up Blu-Ray
Martin Scorsese, star attraction at Hollywood’s latest cheerleading session for high-definition home entertainment, said the words many a studio suit can only hope prove true. “Blu-ray is going to extend the lifetime of a movie,” t...
Director Susan Seidelman’s Recalls Early Indie Filmmaking
Susan Seidelman’s influential 1982 feature debut, “Smithereens,” has launched on iTunes and Amazon VOD this week. Later in her directing career, Seidelman went on to helm such acclaimed projects as Madonna’s big-screen debut, “Desperatel...
“House of the Devil” Director Ti West On His Ups and Downs in Hollywood
The triumph of “Paranormal Activity” over “Saw VI” at the box office last weekend suggests audiences may crave subtle, low-key spookiness over blood-and-guts mayhem. This has given confidence to Ti West, the director of “The House of the...
Antichrist Director Lars von Trier Reviews His Reviews
The notoriously travel-shy Lars Von Trier beamed himself into our basement via Skype last week to talk about Antichrist (out this week), which should give you an idea of how important this film — the inspiration for countless scandalized reviews...
On the set with director Brett Ratner in NY
Brett Ratner, an action film director dipping a toe in romantic comedy, had it all figured out: a pair of young lovers, an enchanted night near the Central Park reservoir, an unexpected moment of passion. It sounded like something out of “A Midsum...
Director Wes Anderson directs movie by email?
To be clear, Wes Anderson did not set out to direct his new movie via e-mail. Even if that’s precisely how the writer-director’s stop-motion animation version of Roald Dahl’s beloved children’s book “Fantastic Mr. Fox...
Peter Billingsley of ‘Christmas Story’ fame is all grown up and making films
Peter Billingsley was on the other side of the world at Bora Bora’s St. Regis Resort describing his working conditions for making the new comedy “Couples Retreat.” The phrase “working conditions” may not be entirely app...
George Lucas: ‘I Make Movies. I Don’t Care Where They Are Shown’
For today’s closing session, Ben Mankiewicz (co-host of “At the Movies”) sat down with George Lucas, famed director of such blockbusters as the “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” series who now has his own company, San Francisco, Calif...
The Coen Brothers: Don’t try to figure out our movies
The Coen brothers’ new movie, “A Serious Man,” opens with a piece of advice from medieval French rabbi Rashi: “Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.” Fast forward to the film’s long-suffering her...
Director Alan Parker on the making of Fame
The award-winning director reminisces about the making of Fame, the 1980 film which won two Oscars, spawned a hit television series… and inspired a worldwide craze for legwarmers. Having had some success with my previous film Midnight Express...
Hollywood comes to Roman Polanski’s defense
When filmmaker Roman Polanski was arrested Saturday in Switzerland, he was on his way to accept an award for Lifetime Achievement at the Zurich Film Festival. Peers of Roman Polanski have praised him for his talent and lamented his arrest. Po...
INTERVIEW: Actor John Krasinki on directing ‘Brief Interviews with Hideous Man’
Writer, director and actor John Krasinski isn’t knocking himself out trying to be cool about the debut of his film Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (which Scott Weinbergreviewed here) in the Dramatic Competition at Sundance: ” Being...
The life and times of movie director Roman Polanski
With the recent death of Susan Atkins, one of the Manson family murderers responsible for the brutal death of Roman Polanski’s wife Sharon Tate, the movie director’s name has once again cropped up in the media. Roman Polanski has lived ...
